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Doesn't Andrew work on stockfish? Could he introduce a bug or something into stockfish promoting his own engine? Doesn't seem right he has own engine and works on stockfish too!!! I for one am very skeptical over this one! Conflict of interest? Is he working with other developers on fishtest? Is he...

hgm wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:35 pm

The problem is that the ICGA is set up as a democracy

A one-person democracy.

Allowing the possibility of 'gamesmanship' in a computer tournament is a little perplexing. Relies on 'good' behaviour', I guess. When money/commercialism is involved, this is probably asking too much of some people. More than a little perplexing. Leela and operator lost on time through their own s...

Many thanks to everyone involved in preserving this invaluable resource. Your efforts are not unappreciated!

Nice one, Ed! Thanks!

I love the idea, but from my own experience having to clean out the WAC test suite, I know how important it is for all positions to be correct and have unique solutions. Otherwise seeing it not find 500 positions, or whatever the number, will be meaningless if those official solutions were wrong in...

Frankly I haven't found any changes in the last 4-5 releases of CA - even the bugs appear to be the same. So, yes the perrsonalities is the same, and the sliders is sometimes quite annoying. Development for Chess Assistant has been frozen for quite some time, and they openly state this. Aquarium is...

I love the idea, but from my own experience having to clean out the WAC test suite, I know how important it is for all positions to be correct and have unique solutions. Otherwise seeing it not find 500 positions, or whatever the number, will be meaningless if those official solutions were wrong in ...

I'm quite curious to see whether Leela can fit into that system, being the bipolar gal she is. :-) I don't follow the zero news, what is the downoad location? It depends somewhat on your hardware. If you have an Nvidia GPU, preferably not too old, then you will enjoy hugely more performance than wi...

This new type of rating list is inspired by MEA a tool developed by Ferdinand Mosca processing the 1500 theme based STS positions created by Dann Corbit and Swaminathan Natarajan. As an experiment shows the results are reasonable in sync with the CCRL 4/40 rating list and insipired me to give the S...