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Yes, the video cards were over-heating resulting in weak play by Leela. After reducing their speed to 70% (so they don't overheat that much) Leela recovered it's normal level and won most matches greatly increasing it's qualifying chance. Maybe it's too late now, but at least the problem was found....

"Everybody" ?! Since when can you speak for everyone?

By the way, the "official" TCEC site appears to be down. The url gives a 'Not Found' error and a blank page.

http://tcec.chessdom.com/live.php

A GPU standard could be useful for testers, in the same way of 1CPU, 4CPU, etc.
What is the most common GPU available at a reasonable price?
Maybe the community can agree on a common-denominator GPU for testing Leela-like entities ?!

What 's to be expected if you select all three styles at once? Is that advisable?
To me at least, it appears to play some very attractive chess when all three are selected, leaning more towards a Tal-style.

Thanks for the release, btw!
CL

Excellent understanding of piece activity/mobility and king safety resulting in a great, swashbuckling type of attacking play.
I sure like it.

As to how it compares to other similar Rodent personalities, maybe our friend Brendan could chime in.

Why was Ethereal banned ??! They sure seem to have a fondness for banning over there...

Maybe the engine's (own) book should be capped at no more than 15 moves, otherwise you could potentially have games where 30-40 moves are reeled off directly from book, so the engine basically does not play at all, but only the book does.

Does Komodo MCTS use contempt? AFAIK it normally doesn't recognize the contempt setting (unlike regular Komodo) - instead, its optimistic eval acts as some sort of built-in de facto contempt.

hgm wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:25 pm

I don't think the problem is that it is not known how to do it.

It is more that none of the admins seems to be interested in doing it.

Then the "upgrade" was more like a downgrade.