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You shouldn't conclude too much from 55 games.

Right now I. 'm using floating points with some SIMD. I estimate it could be about 3 times faster if I change to 16-bit fixed point with SIMD and add incremental updates for changing inputs on the first layer. After optimization I might play with net size and inputs to see if what works best. If yo...

Money now vs time later.
The 3990x will let you test twice as fast.

The start position of Capablanca is relatively garbage. Testing it with Fairy-Stockfish gave me a fairly hefty opening advantage at 60+0.6. White vs Black: +952 -438 =610 [0.628] 2000 There are also unprotected pawns in the beginning. I've also tested Gothic Chess. (Capablanca but different start p...

Congratz to Andrew, that's a hefty upgrade over 12.25.

The start position of Capablanca is relatively garbage. Testing it with Fairy-Stockfish gave me a fairly hefty opening advantage at 60+0.6. White vs Black: +952 -438 =610 [0.628] 2000 There are also unprotected pawns in the beginning. I've also tested Gothic Chess. (Capablanca but different start p...

The start position of Capablanca is relatively garbage. Testing it with Fairy-Stockfish gave me a fairly hefty opening advantage at 60+0.6. White vs Black: +952 -438 =610 [0.628] 2000 There are also unprotected pawns in the beginning. I've also tested Gothic Chess. (Capablanca but different start p...

The start position of Capablanca is relatively garbage. Testing it with Fairy-Stockfish gave me a fairly hefty opening advantage at 60+0.6. White vs Black: +952 -438 =610 [0.628] 2000 There are also unprotected pawns in the beginning. I've also tested Gothic Chess. (Capablanca but different start po...

A popular board game is a popular board game I don't think popularity should be the deciding factor, but FWIW the popular opinion is certainly that these games (Monopoly, etc.) are not to be taken seriously. Or from the AI point of view, you can say that computers have exceeded humans' abilities ve...

Seeing the various options with pawn moves altered reminded me of a variant I played years ago back in school, which I'd seen in some book covering variants. In it normal pawn moves were diagonal and captures directly ahead. No idea what en passant rules were! Does anyone remember this? I really ho...