@monorail what makes it even worse is that these are all standardized chess symbols that would be extremely easy to read with a parser

@monorail also, this is such an easy problem that i, someone who hasn't played chess in literal years and was never any good at it anyway, was able to find the answer in seconds

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@sobsz aa sorry! maybe we're just better at it than we thought?

@Felthry more likely it's that i really really suck at it
heck i didn't really 100% know what the difference was between a checkmate and a stalemate until i looked it up

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