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No learning is allowed during the course of running an engine. Prior fixed learning is allowed. I can't think of any examples at the moment. Any testing an engine author does prior to release is in effect learning. I guess the exception is if the learning file is essentially an opening book, then th...

Carlos777 wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 18, 2019 11:26 pm

Single core list still not working:

http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/40 ... ons_only=1

Yes we are aware of that. Could be a while before it is fixed.

Is it totally correct to think of CCRL as equal hardware where you have 1, 2 and 4CPU entities competing and being rated together? Why can't a GPU become something like a new category of hardware? I know a lot depends on the actual GPU, and benchmarking that can become tricky, but maybe a 'most com...

It is certainly difficult for an equal hardware list, where equality is based on CPU benchmarks. SSDF is in the best position, they have engines listed running on different hardware already. No issues for them at all.

I was getting a certificate error on the main chessusa.com site, so I guess that was probably related.

The CGI scripts across the entire website are not working. The hosting company are looking at it.

Thanks, we will check why that isn't working.

Testing now underway for the chess960 ratings list. Thank you Richard for spending the time to fix chess960 support. It will be good to get a more recent version than 3.29 on the list

OK I have it running now

Once it is actually downloaded, Defender has no issues with it, as suggested above !

I'm not so sure that would work. As soon as Defender does a scheduled scan it would quarantine it again, and when you try to run it you may have problems as well. But I'm pretty sure Defender allows you to specify files that you want it to ignore, so that is probably the answer.