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Pour tout : une anomalie, un exercice faux, une question sur un achat, ou un désaccord avec une évaluation. Écrivez en anglais ou en bulgare.
Assistance
Demandez à quelqu’un
Il n’y a pas de système de tickets, pas de robot de discussion et pas de centre d’aide avec 400 articles dedans. Il y a une adresse e-mail et un suivi d’anomalies, et les deux atteignent la personne qui a écrit l’application.
Suivi d’anomalies
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Pour tout ce que vous préféreriez voir public — et pour tout ce que vous voulez que d’autres puissent retrouver ensuite, ce qui est le cas de la plupart des rapports d’anomalie.
Si un exercice est faux
Envoyez quatre choses et cela se vérifie en une minute.
- La FEN affichée sur l’écran de l’exercice — appuyez longuement pour la copier.
- Le coup que vous avez joué, et celui que l’application a donné pour juste.
- Dans quel mode vous étiez.
- La version de l’application, depuis l’écran À propos.
Les exercices contredisent parfois une recherche plus profonde, et les contradictions se concentrent sur des positions longues, calmes et haut cotées dont la pointe est plus profonde que ce qu’a exploré la vérification. C’est une limite du contrôle et non un défaut de l’exercice — mais il vaut la peine de savoir lesquels, et le seul moyen de le savoir est que vous le disiez.
Questions
Posées assez souvent pour être écrites.
- Does it need an internet connection?
- No. The engine, the puzzles and your progress are all on the device. The single exception is online play, which needs Game Center to reach the other person.
- Is there an account?
- There is none to create. Your ratings and history live in the app’s own container on your device, and deleting the app deletes them.
- What is free?
- Playing is free and stays free — against the engine, against a person over Game Center, and the nine hundred games in Watch — all unlimited. On top of that a free account gets five a day of each kind of training: five tactics puzzles, five Rush runs, five positional exercises, five endgame drills and five games to judge. The allowance resets at nine in the morning, local time.
- Why is there no advertising?
- Partly taste and partly licence. The app links two engines — Stockfish under the GPLv3 and Reckless under the AGPLv3 — and compiling a proprietary advertising SDK into the same binary would make the combined work undistributable under either. Selling the app is fine; copyleft has never forbidden charging. Bolting a closed SDK onto it is not.
- Are my puzzle ratings the same as a FIDE rating?
- No, and they run several hundred points higher. They measure progress against yourself, not strength against a field.
- Where do the puzzles come from?
- Most are from the Lichess puzzle database, released into the public domain under CC0, carrying ratings calibrated against millions of real solving attempts. The rest were mined locally by having Stockfish play itself and keeping only positions where one move is far better than every alternative.
- Can I see the source code?
- Yes. The app carries the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 — the terms Reckless brings with it, which the GPLv3 of Stockfish permits combining with — and the complete corresponding source is published on GitHub.
- Which engine am I playing?
- Whichever you chose in Settings. Stockfish and Reckless are both compiled into the app, and one of them plays, grades and labels everything. They are not equivalent: Stockfish can be asked to play anywhere from about 1400 to full strength, while Reckless has no strength limiter and plays at full strength or not at all.
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