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I simply don't like either the actual events that have been happened, nor the potential actions that could be taken to abuse this particular feature. Adding or deleting words or sentences makes it too easy to completely change the meaning of a post, whether it is intentional or not is irrelevant......

... Otherwise the poll comes nowhere near representing a cross-section of the membership. Neither do elections, unless everyone votes. Running elections that way, using a random sample of people, probably would reflect the people's desires more accurately. Some countries try to avoid this by mandat...

There is a major flaw with this unsynchronized approach that absolutely kills it. What do you do if two or more nodes start at the same position at the same time? They get no hash hit, they all search the same nodes in the same order, they provide no increased performance. The idea is reasonable to ...

It's ridiculous how much whining has been caused by a few polls... If you're concerned about such votes being manipulated by multiple accounts, there are some fairly simple solutions. For example, an administrator could create a temporary voting forum which only members who joined over 10 days ago ...

I wonder how do you print tablebase hit information under the winboard protocol. The winboard protocol gives me no instructions that I can see about it. In the thinking output there is only ply score time nodes pv The following is from the winboard protocol: "You can use the PV to show other things...

Robert Hyatt wrote : The chips are also getting bigger. I'm not sure the feature size has been reducing that much. The fab processes have improved so that larger chips (and hence more transistors) can be made while keeping acceptable yield levels... Thanks for the answer. I don't understand what do...

Jack Lad wrote:It is interesting to note that the 50 move rule actually makes the win longer to achieve in this case.

That's true in a lot of cases. Although I am not sure humans can cope with that and play them correctly.

True or Fasle FIDE initially changed the 50 move rule to 75 as computer databases began to reveal positions requiring more than 50 moves without capture or pawn move to win, they then discovered positions requiring >75 moves and temporarily changed the rule to 100 in these certain positions. Howeve...

True or Fasle FIDE initially changed the 50 move rule to 75 as computer databases began to reveal positions requiring more than 50 moves without capture or pawn move to win, they then discovered positions requiring >75 moves and temporarily changed the rule to 100 in these certain positions. Howeve...

Robert Hyatt said : actually, moore's law has long since died on the vine. My old PIV xeon ran at 2.8ghz. That hasn't been doubled yet, much less within the past 3 years... Ummmmm I think your'e wrong. I mean correct me if i'm wrong but .. didn't moore's law predict that the number of _transistors_...