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Well, either a moderator can't read or only read the title. I don't know what is wrong with moderation recently, but this kind of ban actions are terrible and damaging. News about genuine tournaments traditionally doesn't belong in this subsection, because this is really for home tournaments. Also ...

Thanks! Fascinating results, given that there still is really not much inside Floyd except a few bare basics.

A question (if possible) to Mr.van Kervinck: how strong (in blitz 4/40) is the last version of Rookie ? Will be nice to know ! I'm not recently making any changes to Rookie because it has become hard to change. When I made the v3 series I focussed on speed and weight tuning, but now I don't care mu...

In chess game playing or analysis, we primarily add cores to search a larger tree at the same time control, not to search the same tree faster: the game conditions or the available time for analysis doesn't change: it is dictated by the environment. We can only add cores and see how the system chang...

I responded to the quoted statement with a counter example.

Evert wrote:conversely, beta==alpha+1 means the current node is not a PV candidate

What to do when a PV re-search happens to return, after negation, beta-1? How to distinguish between PV and non-PV with the new alpha after?

Floyd is a simplistic chess engine I use for study purposes. I have just released revision 0.8 because after some eval modifications it is much stronger than the previous version. Download here: https://marcelk.net/floyd/ (courtesy Joost for the win64 binary) Sources on github: https://github.com/ke...

Today the macports xboard/xquartz combo is relatively snappy again on my main user account. Not great, but much better than it was 1 week ago (or yesterday for that matter): the application is even workable for now. I have not accepted any upgrade or macports update that I'm aware of. The only thing...

hgm wrote:No, it is in the Options -> ICS dialog, not Options -> General.

Found it. I humbly suggest to make the Dock Icon jump on OSX for this functionality. Or at least make the default 'false' for focus stealing on OSX.

hgm wrote:

mvk wrote:That is compensated by the focus grabbing the board window does every time a move is made... (sorry, equally annoying)

Isn't that a consequenceof the 'auto-raise board' option?

Which menu has that?