The server-side engine is very slow. I know we don't have a big server farm like Lichess, but Lichess's server-side analysis takes a few seconds, whereas Lishogi's takes a minute or so. I think my client could analyse the game faster.
Also, the engine often gives massive ratings where they are undeserved, and is sometimes just straight-up wrong (around 10–15% of the time). For example, in this position:
Gote is up by 1 pawn if they go ４㆕馬. However, the server-side engine suggests going ３五馬, giving 2 pawns of advantage back to Sente.
I can't tell if my client is actually the inaccurate one, but the server failed to detect Tsume in 13, so I think my client is the correct one.
the amount of pawns does not always matter.
Yeah, okay, it's +0,4 to −0,3 chess-wise, but that is still an inaccuracy, and still gives up quite a bit of advantage.
I don't know whether Lishogi has dedicated computer analysis servers.
Volunteers run github.com/WandererXII/shoginet and its performance depends upon the machines it runs on.
It'd be nice if there was a client-side version, too, since my client running one analysis is better than the server running multiple.
I wonder; if someone copied github.com/lichess-org/external-engine but made it for Lishogi, maybe players could use an engine which isn't browser-based.
