You ever studied an opening and just wanted to find very clean and instructive modelgames for it without having to manually click through a bunch of games, pressing engine analysis and seeing if it's a clean game or not?
You want games with a satisfying eval graph of a constant up, incredibly smooth games? Finding such modelgames can be a bit of a tedious process which this page tries to simplify.
On here you can simply search for a FEN or pick an opening from the list of openings and choose the color (black or white), and it will return you a list of modelgames which you can then analyse on Lichess or here!
A script was running in parallel on a bunch of CPU instances which analysed ~ 2 million games with Stockfish to identify modelgames which were added to a database. There is around 170000 modelgames in total in that database at the moment. What criteria determined in the script what a modelgame is?
A modelgame needs to be longer than 20 moves. A modelgame should ideally have a winner. The losing side should not make a blunder when they do not already have a big disadvantage. This avoids games being decided by sudden blunders, which does not count as a modelgame.
The winning side should never have a disadvantage higher than 0.5 (unless it's known opening theory), and there should be no blunders, a maximum of 3 inaccuracies, and 1 mistake. Once the eval is clearly winning blunders, mistakes and inaccuracies no lounger count unless they throw away the win.
These are the main criteria the script uses. The Stockfish analysis used Stockfish 17, but the determination of inaccuracies, mistakes, and blunders is slightly different from Lichess. In general, any modelgame returned from this page should also be a very high-quality game in Lichess engine analysis.
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