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Maybe in some endgames there are big tuning changes still waiting, and this functionally changes just something right? As Protospring is saying, the bench right now is not really affected by a lot of endgame changes, they are not triggered in the searched positions. But it is a functional change fro...

I just had a quick look but from that, i'm afraid these are likely not working Mike. Stockfish-022120 does open a command window on my 15 year old system, but I can't enter a command like 'uci' to test anything. Bluefish-022120 also opens a command window but gives a message saying it can not find e...

Vondele found a bug in the use of VALUE_MATE_IN _MAX_PLY when having tablebases on board. Looks like not really a fault of vanilla Stockfish code but more of the later added tablebase code in Stockfish in my opinion. But Mikes version probably does not have the bugfix, Stockfish Dev does, as of tod...

Vondele found a bug in the use of VALUE_MATE_IN _MAX_PLY when having tablebases on board. Looks like not really a fault of vanilla Stockfish code but more of the later added tablebase code in Stockfish in my opinion. But Mikes version probably does not have the bugfix, Stockfish Dev does, as of toda...

There is some interaction probably between the two, but at alternate plies in this case, you do probcut when you have a very good position, but nullmove did not work because you need a tactical solution. (nullmoveing not very good if you have tactics) the search is then shortened a lot and your alph...

In Stockfish, I think it is more a case of some overlap with all the LMR rules. Razoring is done at depth < 2 and LMR for depth >= 3 so maybe either of these could incorporate depth = 2 (or LMR more of the razoring depths) Of course these reductions are still different in very many ways/subrules (of...

I still only have my old Athlon running so to compare I can try some very old programs, that are maybe more comparable to the programs playing in the game. Only 32 bit engines, because the operating system is 32 bit. I tried my Rebel 12 Betazoid personality and it finds 1. Bxh8, but at first with a ...

Thanks for looking into it Mike! You confirm more or less what I thought. The bench seemed good so that is a good start, and the hardware, cooling etc seem certainly up to the task. So if it is just a question of giving more hash, that is easy to do. At least for starters. I don't know if he has fou...

In reference to a question on Fishcooking from Branko , with a new 3950X, I was wondering if the guys here with Threadrippers could maybe check if the depths are okay. The bench result that Branko reported with 32 threads is impressive, but I should he not get deeper with Stockfish even if it is onl...