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Thanks for this. Will see if I can provide comments and something interesting. Thank you for your interest! I don't think I would have published this had not several people repeatedly asked me to. The interest in Winter has generally been very motivating and makes me very happy. Where can i downloa...

I have finally found the time and motivation to publish my NN training script (actually training repository) for Winter! Keep in mind that I mostly wrote this for my own personal use,so have mercy on my coding practices... That being said, I added some comments and it should be reasonably easy to un...

May I have an account for Winter?

Back when I was compiling Winter on Windows I used a mingw gcc compiler and it was fairly straightforward, but I failed when trying to compile with clang. I don't know much about C++ on Windows, so I am sure someone else might be of more use. Longterm I would like to support cmake, but I have never ...

I am not sure why you guys are trying to reach conclusions based on individual online games. There are so many things going on that will massively shift how such games go and I don't think I need to give a lecture on small sample sizes or anecdotal evidence to you guys. Also I am curious about the a...

I honestly also think NCM should consider updating the benchmark engine after SF11 release. Elo model is not particularly good for engines outside a certain rating range and at roughly +240 Elo, I think we might have reached that point already. For a 240+ Elo performance you need to score 80%.

No sense to buy fast GPU, when engine strength is +-20 to Stockfish. How much does a 10core CPU cost? Because if LC0 on that GPU plays +-20 to Stockfish, it might make sense to go for the GPU instead. I only checked Newegg, which I have heard isn't close to the cheapest nowadays. You can get an 8co...

May I suggest that engines running with GPU be counted as multi-CPU? It feels very wrong to be comparing engines running on a RTX2080 with single core engines (normalized to a very old single core at that...) and then when you go to the "multi-CPU" list and those same engines don't show up at all. O...

Thanks for the event Graham! Was a really great struggle at the top and some other engines were really looking good. SlowChess and Scorpio looked especially good when things were going well and Minic won against a lot of the first half of the field in the last round robin, including one of the winne...

Graham's and Daniel's word clouds could get recognized from a mile away

I find/found the previous 10 much harder.

I guess authors of engines outside the most common ones are probably easy to spot. Graham's is easy because nobody else will have so many engines in their wordcloud