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A huge advantage of self-play is that the time can be hidden in “normal” testing inside the testing frame work. The time controls for these games is VERY fast and a huge number of games are played per year. e.g. SF testing frame work can produce 1,000 to 2,000 games per minute or between 500,000,00...

I have several refurbished workstations, mostly HP. Businesses tend to lease these for 3 years. Once they are off lease, they are sold to a liquidator, and are often available at attractive prices. It is pretty common to remove the hard drive for security reasons. eBay usually has a large selection....

Human opening theory is almost irrelevant to modern engine play even though I think engines suck at opening play as compared to their middle game play. AND human opening theory could be made completely irrelevant if learning books were widely used in engines. What we call human opening theory these...

Well, if your keeping the book statistics up to date as new games are played then the highest scoring move should be played next. But, this isn't the best move AND it's not meant to be the best move. There are two consideration involved, one is the best scoring move and the other is the move that t...

You can view move selection as an example of the "multi-armed bandit" problem. You have a prior distribution of outcomes (win/loss/draw) and you are trying to optimize the future "payout" (score). There is a very large literature on this but one approach is called Thompson Sampling (https://en.wikip...

Ferret competed in quite a few tournaments from 1995-early 2000s, and it was active on chessclub.com. Some games are available here:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=30003

Nordlandia wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 06, 2019 5:54 pm

MikeB: if you have time please comfirm whether cutechess gui adjourn 7-piece positions.

It doesn't. See:

https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess/issues/499

Which Fathom are you using? Is it https://github.com/jdart1/Fathom? If the command-line tool works on your position, then you have to be passing something different into the API for it to not work for you. You do have to call tb_init first. Btw. the newer and now preferred root level probing API cal...

I wouldn't conclude it is software - could be your disk is failing/has bad sectors.

You could try to reinstall the OS from media. You might find this helpful (no guarantees):

https://www.intowindows.com/how-to-rein ... sing-data/

I noticed arasanx-64-bmi2.exe (BMI2 but non-NUMA build) was missing from the engine archive (arasan21.4.zip) so I updated it to include that.

--Jon