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I'm not a believer of books for personalities, if a personality is good then it should be good from the opening position, or with minimal books for variety. It's possible default Stockfish could be made to appear as having a great style with a gambit book that plays an interesting opening no matter...

I hold that Ng5!! is the best move in this position: r2qr1k1/1bp1bppp/p1np1n2/1p2p3/3PP3/1BP2N1P/PP3PP1/RNBQR1K1 w - - Because after it, black has to find ...Rf8!! Any other move by black leaves white significantly better. However if Black plays ...Rf8!! then Nf3!! is best here: r2q1rk1/1bp1bppp/p1...

weak engines make a lot of tactical mistakes. For example the random mover is a very weak engine that does tactical mistakes. There are other weak engines that make tactical mistakes. A couple things. 1. I refer to engines which have at least have a decent playing style. I would instantly disqualif...

The last few months, I have been focused on the UCI_LimitStrength feature , trying to make it more meaningful to the user. Unfortunately, it took me a while to realized that CCRL ratings, as good as they are at the higher end, were very frustrating to work with at the lower levels as they were tota...

It was only a blitz 5 2 (I haven't played a real LTC tournament for ten years) game against 1900ish Chinese player, but the game is still pretty nice for its positional lessons (color complexes and loose pawn moves exploitation) and its tactical ideas. I hope someone finds it interesting. :) [Event ...

Even if the sac is dubious...this only illustrates that DJ is a great engine. The recent flood of 3300+ engines who all play like Stockfish (and have ppl running off to do sim tests!) gets a bit boring imo . But if an engine can play interesting chess and dubiously sac a piece to draw with perhaps t...

To Ed and Harm: Got it. Thanks to you both for clarifying. :) When this forum was created back in 1997 there was only section, this main section. In 2000 CTF became a sub forum. As volume postings increased people got annoyed by folks posting match results and so the tournament sub forum saw the li...

To Ed and Harm:

Got it.

Thanks to you both for clarifying.

I treat complaints as confidential, and was not planning on changing this policy. People must not feel impaired by fear for petty harrassment in retaliation for flagging wrong-doing. By the nature of things it are the most aggressve and viscious members that violate rules, and have a tendency to bu...

I still find Chessmaster the most beautiful interface, easier on the eye and less cluttered than anything released since. So I want to keep using it, and I want to watch matches between good engines on it. I've successfully imported Greko into Chessmaster 10, and the games are great, as Greko is ar...