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I am curious how strong Fat Fritz really is.

Sesse wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:34 pm

noobpwnftw wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:32 pm

I hope I'd live long enough to see Olympics played electronically.

Just measure genetics + some physical parameters and decide the winner?

Hilarious. I still say Serena Williams is doing steroids.

Sesse wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 13, 2019 5:56 pm

lkaufman wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:25 pm

According to talkchess posts, Houdini was sponsored by an Arab Sheikh. I don't have any direct knowledge of that.

I thought that was Hydra.

They did that one too.

It looks like 64 cores would cost $5,000.

Good idea.

after the latest stf6 komodo 8 etc, i wonder how much elo more can be achieve via programming,on the same hardware of course. 100,200,300 elo more? it could be a poll but anyway just a "food of thought" my personal feeling not more than 100 elo. more? it would be a miracle dont forget pls on the sa...

It would be interesting to know how much a 75-100 ply search and beyond would increase elo.

Thanks. I didn't know much of that. I guess in its day it was used by GMs for openings. And that's still so. Hiarcs to me (and most corr.- players I know) is much more the GUI HCE (Hiarcs Chess Explorer) than the engine. It's online- books are monthly updated for abo- users (only) and I don't know ...

Can Hiarcs be used by chess engines? If it can, how good is it? I know very little about it. Hiarcs is a Chess engine. It's... huh, Top 41 engine, weaker than Rodent III and Critter 1.6a, to name a few. However, for commercial engines it's the top 6 engine, just after Komodo, Houdini, Shredder, Fri...

Can Hiarcs be used by chess engines? If it can, how good is it? I know very little about it.