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The three options are for the bootstrapping approach on the position.
After, the engine will adapt itself dynamically.

abgursu wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 09, 2020 1:52 pm

What kind of changes in learning did you implement with this version?

The standard learning is only improved.
The q-learning is the novelty.
Both of them are fixed thanks to Omar Khalid.

I was given Shashin's book: Best Play a few years ago by a friend who works for a book distributor. I looked at it for a day or two and put it away on a self thinking: this is of no use to me (long time USCF 2000+ player) and it was way too complicated to consciously use. But, I realized it kind of...

With this version we achieved our first important goal: More hard positions solved than Houdini in the tactical version: https://github.com/amchess/ShashChess/wiki/Test-suite-results at least the same strength as base Stockfish https://github.com/amchess/ShashChess/wiki/Matches The demonstration of ...

Andrea, I suppose you introduced some important novelty to release a new version so soon after the previous one. I could see that there was another parameter in the learning files. How much does it change the learning? Could you give some additional explanations? This is a minor version. No other b...

BrainLearn 9.1 https://github.com/amchess/BrainLearn/releases/tag/9.1 Many thanks to Omar Khalid patch on learning Stockfish patch Author: Stefan Geschwentner Date: Mon Jul 6 17:56:18 2020 +0200 Timestamp: 1594050978 Add a rank based bonus for blocked pawns. Fix for overevaluated blocked pawns on th...

ShashChess 12.1 https://github.com/amchess/ShashChess/releases/tag/12.1 Many thanks to Omar Khalid patch on learning Stockfish patch Author: Stefan Geschwentner Date: Mon Jul 6 17:56:18 2020 +0200 Timestamp: 1594050978 Add a rank based bonus for blocked pawns. Fix for overevaluated blocked pawns on ...

[What is Q-learning? I never heard of it before. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fishcooking/6IzmiSCB8lg Thanks for the link, Andrea, interesting stuff. If I may ask another question again, what does Q-learning do with existing experience- files generated by "Standard" option in new BrainLe...

[What is Q-learning? I never heard of it before. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fishcooking/6IzmiSCB8lg Thanks for the link, Andrea, interesting stuff. If I may ask another question again, what does Q-learning do with existing experience- files generated by "Standard" option in new BrainLe...

It's a pleasure to annonce the new ShashChess 12 release with a lot of novelties: ... Hi ! I tested ShashChess 12 on the Hard-Talkchess-2020 set and I saw a strange thing : the search is NOT consistent with 1 thread when I restart the engine on the same position. I tested with this position : 1nb3r...