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A friend of mine was asking whether there have been serious attempts to find good handicaps for various rating differences. In engine games there seems to be some rough understanding of it, however what about human vs human games? Maybe @lkaufman has some insights? It is not about rating difference...

A friend of mine was asking whether there have been serious attempts to find good handicaps for various rating differences. In engine games there seems to be some rough understanding of it, however what about human vs human games?
Maybe @lkaufman has some insights?

smatovic wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:07 pm

I guess with 128 TB RAM, approaches like MCTS, that store the game tree, will
start to make more sense than using it only for TT.

Well, Leela probably already is the strongest engine in the world, not too bad if you ask me.

I don't think humans incorrectly project "understanding" to a NN. I think it's more like we have different definitions of what to understand means. In what sense does a human understand anything? It's just chemical reactions that are happening in the "calculation machine" that is the human brain. Th...

I have not looked at a thread here. Though I wouldn't be surprised if there were similar discussions in the forums here. As for network size, yes that is true of course. I was talking about the number of nodes calculated which would be a typical measure of brute force vs knowledge. Of course you can...

A0 is just using brute calculational force. This simple fact is somehow swept aside by all the propaganda. (We also do not have access to all of A0's games.) Carlsen has deep understanding. Engines of any kind have brute calculating power. While that is true of course, it uses that power for a very...

Note that for such big boards entirely incremental methods are often very competitive. You could for instance keep an attack map for the Trolls, 8 bit per Troll, to indicate from which of the 8 directions they are attacked. This packs nicely into a 64-bit word, so you can 'generate' the captures of...

Before I start, sorry if this is too offtopic, it's not directly related to chess though I can't think of better people to answer this than chess programmers. Thud is a board game played on an octagonal 15x15 board. (for implementation purposes it might be useful to consider it as square and just ne...

Been playing games online? Show me how! Chess Fighter would love to play online :D . Seriously, Chess Fighter has not played online and I don't (yet) know how to implement that kind of stuff. Though I hope to get some help through this forum. You can make a bot account on lichess and run your engin...

If we're doing strange fixed nodes testing, then why not put Leela vs Mephisto at 1000 nodes. Surely that will be close. (I predict Leela will score 100-0 in a hundred game match) Obviously if your node contains much more calculations your engine will be stronger at fixed node count. Instead it sho...