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This will be quite interesting indeed; thanks to the Komodo team and chess.com for putting on the event! This match is getting far more advance publicity than we imagined. Hundreds of comments on Facebook, chess.com etc. Most people expect a lopsided result, they just don't agree on who will be the...

This will be exciting to watch! I'm going to stick with my prediction that Komodo will win comfortably. I apologize if these questions have already been answered, but 1. Which version of Komodo will be playing? Will GM Smerdon be told which version he's playing against? 2. What will Komodo's contem...

Here is Smerdon's blog about the match:https://www.davidsmerdon.com/?p=2122
And here is the chess.com article about it:https://www.chess.com/news/view/man-vs- ... -vs-komodo

I think chess will never be as elegant with regard to rules and avoiding draws as Go is. I think that this area has been largely unexplored, as there hasn't been a good incentive to create a good draw-less variant of chess. Here's another idea: If the game ends in a draw, white is considered the wi...

I don't even like the underlying idea. In chess, one player can only win if the other player makes a mistake. In absence of mistakes, i.e. with perfect play, draw is the natural result - and not a problem to be solved. I agree that a perfectly played game should be a draw. The problem is that with ...

Sounds exciting. Thanks for the heads up. Ballpark score could be 3.5 - 2.5 win for Komodo. All draws plus 1 win for the engine. Well, as Tal reportedly said when told that Bobby Fischer said in the 1960s that he could give knight odds to any woman chessplayer, "Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is ...

i7-4790K 4.5GHz 4-cores each 1024 mb hash each Houdini contempt at -6 SF contempt at +24 EGTB: Probing 5-men with auto adjudication at 6-pieces. Book used LittleCat_1.8.2.bin GUI: cutechess gui TC: 7m+7s Score of stockfish_20032617_x64_bmi2 vs Houdini 6.03: +12 -2 = 86 [0.550] Elo difference: 34.9 ...

It's nice to see that Komodo 13.3 is now about 20 elo above Houdini 6 on both your 4 cpu and 1 cpu lists, so with Houdini no longer under development we can finally call that horse race! Except for chess960 :wink: Well, I think that has more to do with the 40/2' time limit for the frc list than it ...

It's nice to see that Komodo 13.3 is now about 20 elo above Houdini 6 on both your 4 cpu and 1 cpu lists, so with Houdini no longer under development we can finally call that horse race!

"Best Single Versions" for 40/20 has 3 versions of Lc0 and 2 versions of Komodo MCTS: http://www.cegt.net/40_40%20Rating%20List/40_40%20SingleVersion/rangliste.html This brings up the question of why NNs that require both a GPU and a CPU are even included in a Single Version list, as they require t...