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LczTinker with LC0 on a 2080ti took first place, ArasanX did very well and ended above Belfish (a Stockfish derivative). Belfish and rofChade ended both on third place. This time there were a few problems: atomBaron didn't want to move so Lisebeth had to forfeit it, she also removed Bliep to keep th...

There is a little misunderstanding.

USA is already on daylight saving time, so the tourney will start at 3:00 PM DST.

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for March will take place on: Saturday March 21, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time), 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time) To connect: winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz (for UCI engines, add -fUCI ) Peo...

What is the shortest distance to mate? I found it in 23 moves, with my modest engine, but I'm not sure. Kubbel, 1922 2N5/8/K7/3k4/3p3B/p7/2PP4/8 w - - 0 0 After a long search my engine finds a mate in 22, but I'm not sure if this is correct. info depth 29 score mate 22 time 265456 nodes 2008266933 ...

LMR and convolutional NN are not very new either, maybe you have to invent something new.

Why would you not do that when in check? It seems to me that when you are in check you should do this even with a smaller threshold, namely the value of the checker. Because you will surely not be able to capture more than that, even when there would still be Queens around. As you cannot capture th...

Everything went smoothly. rofChade did very well and ended on par with LczThinker (Fat Fritz on a 2080ti). Ofcourse I'm happy with the third place. Tourney results: :Tourney Players: Round 9 of 9 : : Name Rating Score Perfrm Upset Results : ----------------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------- : 1 +r...

In the latest version of my engine I also use the chrono lib. I measure duration like this: auto t0 = high_resolution_clock::now(); // do something in between auto t1 = high_resolution_clock::now(); auto delta_t = duration_cast<duration<double>>(t1 - t0).count(); However I never measured what the re...

If you want to have sub microsecond accuracy on Windows you can use QueryPerformanceFrequency() and QueryPerformanceCounter().

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for February will take place on: Saturday February 22, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time), 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time) To connect: winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz (for UCI engines, add -fUCI...