TalkChess.com

It looks like I was wrong about the USCF rules. That's how I remembered them. :oops: Anyway, 'common sense' can be somewhat subjective and opinion-driven and may actually vary based on the entities competing. As a chess player I feel it's wrong to adjudicate certain endgames that are virtually unwin...

Sorry, Tom, after I made the previous post I ran into the following passage in CECP protocol specs (towards the end of Section 9): Note that (in accordance with FIDE rules) only KK, KNK, KBK and KBKB with all bishops on the same color can be claimed as draws on the basis of insufficient mating mate...

Excuse me for a moment, but where does one set nodes or depth for Leela? I'm looking at the uci options in the GUI, but I must be missing something.

Thanks in advance!

Hey, you forgot to mention anything about LcZ's miraculously perfect endgame play, in part due to the new cutting-edge 9-man proprietary tablebases (erm..., what are they called, again?)

Hmm, and the calendar says what?

To me, the more interesting and revolutionary option is to set ThothFish to avoid trades. This is the real ground-breaker here. An engine that has a preference for closed positions and thriving on them. This is unlike anything we've seen before from an AB-type engine. But if you set that option, wo...

I guess this confirms my suspicion that aggressively trading against NN engines (by an AB engine) is advantageous to the AB engine. Basically you have the positional stage when there are still a lot of pieces on the board and the tactical stage when there are few. And by shortening the positional s...

This is a significant development, imo. We're finally getting a version of SF with a de facto adjustable smart contempt, including the ability to avoid trades, similar to what Komodo offers. A great feature to have and long awaited. In my test games, it shows it can deliver a mean game, preferring c...

Back in the days of Houdini2 I experimented with computer-assisted correspondence chess. I remember getting a clear advantage in a particular game, the exchange for a pawn, but then I reached a critical juncture where I sensed that Houdini and the other top engines could easily let the game drift in...

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the new release! Can you suggest a network/weights file for use with Allie?

Thanks again,
CL