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Personally, I am a fan of SAN and always have been. It's the way things are written in chess books, game scores by humans, etc. It reads much more naturally to me (as a human). I didn't find it difficult to parse although a move generator is needed. It is needed in a chess engine anyway, so that is...

Hello, I'm looking for ways to extract quiet positions from an epd file while preserving existing comments, bestmove, etc., information. I have a few million positions and just need to get rid of the noisiest ones. Are there any scripts or programs to do this? If not, does anyone have recommendatio...

How are 'manual rolls already implemented' if there is no protocol for it? You wrote: GUIs so far only offered the possibility to either let the engine simulate a virtual dice roll, or have it ask for the human opponent to roll a physical die, and enter the result. How can GUIs offer manual rolls i...

Hello, I'm looking for ways to extract quiet positions from an epd file while preserving existing comments, bestmove, etc., information. I have a few million positions and just need to get rid of the noisiest ones. Are there any scripts or programs to do this? If not, does anyone have recommendatio...

Hello, I'm looking for ways to extract quiet positions from an epd file while preserving existing comments, bestmove, etc., information. I have a few million positions and just need to get rid of the noisiest ones. Are there any scripts or programs to do this? If not, does anyone have recommendatio...

We're thinking about running the next tourney for 11 rounds, maybe this is objectionable for some people? At 4+1 say instead of 5+1 ? Computers are getting faster each time, 11 rounds 4-1 sounds like a good possibility, it won't diminish the level of play. I will talk about it with Liesebeth, she i...

lauriet wrote: ↑

Sat May 16, 2020 10:17 pm

I do, and the program avoids it for a while but eventually fails.....
Maybe I should check the 3 fold code.
Hmm ?

Why 3-fold in the tree? 2-fold is enough

I wanna know some evidence as I had an argument with someone! My assumption was approximately 15 years ago, may be in crafty by Robert Hyatt. I also think that early engines like the king (chess master 6000) did not have AB pruning! For chess engines using microprocessors since about 1980, all exce...

Ferdy wrote: ↑

Sun May 03, 2020 9:43 am

This one is different, the side to move can play e.p capture. Also randomly checked with Crafty.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SYkSiP ... sp=sharing

Ok thanks, they're all uploaded to the Github page

https://github.com/ChrisWhittington/Chess-EPDs

Ferdy wrote: ↑

Sun May 03, 2020 8:16 am

Nice collection.

Here is the single check pos around 93K.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14bYuh7 ... sp=sharing

Thanks, got them. Will run a test to compare nodecounts and add them to the github a bit later.