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Chess engine authors are way too arrogant when they claim that their program is better than Kasparov or better than Magnus Carlsen because it's obviously just a marketing lie. Kasparov is still at least 200 elo stronger than Komodo dragon 2. Even Komodo Dragon 5 still doesn't stand a chance against...

I see no information about the time control LTC tell me nothing and I do not know if it is 90+30 or different time control. TC 40 in 2 hours, 20 in 1Hour, Rest 15+30 Rest. If you clicked on the link you would have seen more detail (TCEC formatted output). Anyway I would have thought you would under...

Game Analysis by Dragon 2 posted here: https://share.chessbase.com/SharedGames ... pIGo3GWa5M

Leela managed to equalize the game by move 20. It used this weights file: LS15-20x256SE-jj-9-75000000.pb.gz and the version 0.28.0 binary. rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PP1PP1PP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1 r5rk/1pp2p2/2npq2p/p1bb4/P2p1N2/6R1/1P1NB1PP/2Q2R1K b - - 3 20 [Event "Banksia Game"] [Date "2021.06.10"...

I first met Bobby Fischer in 1964, when he came to Washington D.C. to give a lecture and play a 70+ board simul. Several players rated above me played in the simul, and I would have played, but I judged that I would learn more from watching Fischer play 70 games than from playing one myself. I laug...

Really enjoyed going over the Reshevsky - Whitaker (Game 4). I remember reading articles from time to time about Whitaker in the 80's, but seeing that game gave me a little more context as to just how strong he (Whitaker) was as a player. Think about it, 3 years later and Reshevsky was already a con...

Hello Larry,

I just downloaded your new book 'Chess Board Options' from Forward Chess and look forward to reading it.

https://forwardchess.com/product/chess-board-options

Tip for those who use Banksia Chess GUI with ClassicAra. I noticed on my system anyway that Nodes_Limit and Timeout_MS were not in the json for ClassicAra. So I added them by adding the following code to its json file. Is that json file to be edited before I use ClassicAra (CPU)? So far I have left...

Tip for those who use Banksia Chess GUI with ClassicAra. I noticed on my system anyway that Nodes_Limit and Timeout_MS were not in the json for ClassicAra. So I added them by adding the following code to its json file. { "default" : 0, "max" : 99999999, "min" : 0, "name" : "Nodes_Limit", "type" : "s...

Very nice! Looks much cleaner!