The Three Verdicts Sorter — kerimdemirkol.com
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The Three Verdicts Sorter

Every chess game ends with three verdicts at once. The result. The engine’s grade of the move. The silent question about who you are. The first two are useful. The third is where careers are quietly damaged. Load a recent loss, find the critical move, and recognise the thought it left you with.

Step 1 · find the position

Paste a Lichess game URL or its 8-character ID. The full game loads here. Step through the moves, find the critical one, and the result, the move, and the engine eval are all captured automatically.

Paste a full game PGN. Works for chess.com, lichess, ChessBase, FIDE Online Arena, or any standard PGN export.

Getting your PGN from chess.com: open the game, click the share icon (upward-arrow), then choose Download and copy the PGN text. On the chess.com mobile app, open the finished game, tap the share icon and choose Copy PGN.

Engine evaluations: if your PGN does not include engine evals (chess.com PGNs usually do not), the critical-move auto-detection will not run and you will pick the moment manually.

Right-click any position on Lichess or chess.com and choose Copy FEN. Paste it here. With FEN-only loading you will fill in the result and the move yourself.

Try:
Step 2 · find the critical move
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Verdict 1 · the resultauto
Load a game above and the result will appear here.
Verdict 2 · the moveauto
Mark a critical move and the move and engine eval will appear here.
The thought you picked

1What this thought is
2Why it is not about the player
3What the chapter argues instead
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Private to your device. Nothing you type or pick here is collected, transmitted, or stored. The Lichess game-link feature fetches a public game from Lichess directly to your browser. No analytics, no accounts, no tracking.

This is a reflection prompt. It is not a diagnostic, a coaching tool, or a substitute for working with a coach. It is a way of seeing the framing the loss left you with.

From The Human Move: Chess After AI, Pressure, Engines, and the Player’s Decision. The argument lives at kerimdemirkol.com.