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One of the issues re Fathom and the CFish 7-man code is that the latter assumes you have a full legal move generator available - of course CFish has that, but it is GPL and I'd like to keep Fathom more permissively licensed, plus not all engines have/need/want a Stockfish-style movegen. So that impl...

AllieStein played nice Rxd6! and won. That is an interesting move. I gave Houdini 6 a long think on 6 cores and it likes Rf1 or Rg1 (score +1.45 at depth 42). But if I force Rxd6 it starts to get a higher score. The mainline looks to be 77. Rxd6 Bxd6 78. Qxd6 Rc8 79. Rxb6, with Black giving back a ...

Are you programming in assembler, or C? If the latter, why do you care what the .asm is?

--Jon

I think 5. .. Nd7 is just bad, and this may be an example of CCC choosing an unbalanced opening. The game stats from Chessbase actually don't look too horrible, but with best play White is better. The game follows known theory at least through 13. b4. Black had a few chances to deviate: for example ...

I am going to look again at grafting it into Fathom. When I get time.

--Jon

You need a high-end graphics card. See viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70096.

--Jon

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--Jon

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--Jon

Houdini 6 selects 35. Nb4 instantly and sticks with it.

--Jon

I believe most engines still play quite poorly in the opening. I regularly see them play into known inferior lines and then lose.

--Jon