Onboarding: game analysis

[mtvec]

I just had to jump through quite some hoops to get a game analysis on my development machine so I was wondering if there is an easier way.

First, getting a game was tricky. Although I seeded my database with lila-db-seed, which includes games, I couldn't find a direct way of viewing them (the advanced search didn't turn up anything no matter what I tried). The only way I found to get a game was to solve a puzzle and then click on the game link.

Second, the get a game analysis, I had to set up the fishnet client and request a computer analysis of the game I just found. I also had to make sure to save the link because the advanced game search still doesn't find this game.

Is there a better way of getting a computer analysis in the database?

[niklasf]

I sometimes just import a PGN on the local equivalent of https://lichess.org/paste and analyse that. Still requires the fishnet client.

[mtvec]

Right, that's much simpler than what I did 😄

Do you think it could make sense to provide a database seed for games and analysis similar to the one for puzzles?

[benediktwerner]

There's https://gist.github.com/hi-ogawa/9bae1e8a809dc54a2371cbf849a6ac2d#file-seed-js which creates some games, users, and puzzles. Quite often you can also just use a study or need fishnet anyway. But adding that with some analysis to the seed repo certainly doesn't sound like a bad idea.