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Thanks a lot for testing FabChess

I have a new version of FabChess at https://github.com/fabianvdW/FabChess/releases/tag/v.1.12.8 This version finally introduces SMP for FabChess - and with it comes more UCI functionality. Changelog: - FabChess now supports multithreading for an arbitrary amount of threads. The UCI settings now addi...

I took a quick look at the content, and it seems there is extremely little machine learning in this book, except for a decision tree in Chapter 2. Mostly genetic algorithms and population-based methods. No neural network. But what they describe may be fun programming experiments. AFAIK genetic algo...

Thanks for testing FabChess v1.12!

2785 is a very satisfying result and comes quite close to my estimates

Showcasing FabChessSMP 4cores, needs some time to solve the mate, found NC3 fairly quickly though position fen rnbQKbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBqkBNR w - - 0 1 go infinite info String Thread 0 starting the search of state! info String Thread 0 starting aspiration window with depth 1 info depth ...

Congrats! FabChess' progress has been fantastic. Of course I couldn't help myself, but take a look at the games between our babies and I stumbled upon this nice and quiet Caro-Kann draw :wink: [Event "FabChess Gauntlet"] [Site "ChessGUI2"] [Date "2019.09.23"] [Round "3.49"] [White "FabChess 1.11 64...

Thanks Graham

Looking forward to what future versions can do, especially in the upcoming Div6

I have a new version of FabChess: https://github.com/fabianvdW/FabChess/releases/tag/v.1.12.6 This version is a quality of life release. -FabChess now (finally) supports the UCI option hash -which defaults to 256MB. -Fixed FabChess crashing on rare occasions (1-2% of games at most) -Added another ev...

I have a new version of FabChess: https://github.com/fabianvdW/FabChess/releases This version is significantly stronger than the previous version. Tests against Version1.11 at TC 120s + 1.2s: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/27965216/65390240-7b30bf00-dd5d-11e9-9b81-a73a719d16d4.JPG Changel...

Very weird behaviour, haven't experienced that against other engines(then again, I don't test that extensivly against other engines). Usually the self gain is about exactly what I get against other engines aswell. Your TC seems good to me, I usually test selfplay at 10 +0.1 and if a patch passes the...