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2b5/8/p1p2pk1/P1Pp1p1p/1P1P1P2/3B1P1K/8/8 w - - 0 201 This is the final position from a game in a recently completed 40/40 test. The game was adjudicated as a draw on the 200th move. Hard to see how White could make progress here, yet recent SF dev builds give around +1.38 up to depth=90 with 6-men...

Last night, Thomas Zipproth released a new Cerebellum Library for Brainfish. First new release since the middle of 2018(!) Download Cerebellum and latest Brainfish here: http://www.zipproth.de/#Brainfish_download I started the testrun... Result not before next Monday on my website (https://www.sp-c...

Bxf5 and Kh1 are good moves, but there is a much better move.

SF, on my machine, sometimes finds it in about 30 seconds, other times are much longer.

...been playing around with a uci option setting for dynamic contempt ... just for entertainment value... here's a game against a 3000 CCLR rated engine with knight odds ... move 59. Be7 is a cute move - not hard for computers, but a good move OTB for a human to find.. [Event "Mac Pro x5690 3.46 Ghz...

Thanks, tmo. BTW, do you know what is happening with the asmFish site: no updates since 12/7/18 and also warnings from Chrome about a dangerous site? asmfish is not sustainable - the effort require to keep it updated for a possible 10 to 12 elo gain for no financial gain becomes an exercise in futi...

get pgn extract...it does it all...

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/pgn-extract/

8/6Bp/1k4p1/6n1/7R/6pp/P4p2/3K4 w - - 0 1 See image - https://pasteboard.co/I5m9FD0.png no issues here dev McCain X2a dep score nodes time (not shown: tbhits knps seldep) 39 +4.65 6.86G 3:26.85 Bd4+ Kc6 Bxf2 gxf2 Ke2 Kc5 Kxf2 Kd5 Ke2 h5 Ke3 Kd6 Kd3 Ne6 Kd2 Ng5 Kc2 Kc6 Kb3 Kb5 Kc3 Ne6 Kc2 h2 Rxh2 Kc...

v0.21.0-fish-v0.8 released! https://github.com/killerducky/lc0/wiki/LeelaFish https://github.com/killerducky/lc0/releases Important note: Stockfish 10 official release has a bug that Leelafish hits more often than normal. To workaround this: 1) Use a recent dev version (after 2018-12-16) or 2) Set ...

@MikeB : OK - will do - many thanks .. :D Edit : removed line - just warning remains. A-OK .. thanks .. :D Ok I just updated McCain on Github - the warning was fixed plus other items. This is a near release... https://github.com/MichaelB7/Stockfish/tree/McCain at longer t/c it may be within 6 Elo o...

dev-McCain X2a (source only you must compile your own exe's) has been updated with both dev SF and McCain updates. Thanks for this Mike - I tried compiling and I got one warning and one error - this is just a FYI .. :D I'll wait for the official macOS release. ic-no-pic -DIS_64BIT -msse -msse3 -mpo...