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- Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:35 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: correspondence chess in the age of NNUE
- Replies: 115
- Views: 14952
Re: correspondence chess in the age of NNUE
Peter Berger, only at the highest levels are we getting almost only draws in ICCF correspondence chess. At lower levels, it's not a matter of who's comp is the fastest, but (more) of chess understanding (especially openings (*) i suggest, but i'm not going to explain all). The hybrid centaur system...
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:31 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: correspondence chess in the age of NNUE
- Replies: 115
- Views: 14952
Re: correspondence chess in the age of NNUE
In reply to Peter Berger, no, the suggestions for rule changes are not pointless, certainly not for Fide/ICCf correspondence chess where comps are allowed. Even today engines are only a decision support tool, true with NNue and so on they have improved, but correspondence chess at higher level also...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:50 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: correspondence chess in the age of NNUE
- Replies: 115
- Views: 14952
Re: correspondence chess in the age of NNUE
I disagree about the part of OTB games. In OTB games it is impossible to memorize everything and the better player may get his opponent out of book assuming the better player change his choice and does not use a fixed opening. memorizing 1,000,000 different lines in the opening is practically imposs...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:05 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: correspondence chess in the age of NNUE
- Replies: 115
- Views: 14952
Re: correspondence chess in the age of NNUE
Taking out really weak players (probably not even using a computer) the draw rate for the past three years is already close to 60%. If you take out weak players, like those who only use a computer to check some positions, it raises over 75%. We're still talking over 140,000 games for just three yea...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:29 am
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Sargon 1978 UCI Available
- Replies: 156
- Views: 31191
Re: Sargon 1978 UCI Available
If I understand correctly sargon now only know not to play a move that force a draw by repetition when it has a better alternative. It does not have draw by repetition knowledge during the search(and note that you do not need hash tables for it but only to see that the line in the search leads to a ...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:38 am
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Why you play many games when testing
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1577
Re: Why you play many games when testing
Time and time again, users of this form will claim to know the value of an engine pairing based only on 100 games, or even 10 games. Those people lack basic understandings of statistics, and here is a live example for you. I launched a tuning test on Ethereal's hand crafted eval using some new idea...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:17 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: A thought on originality
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1593
Re: A thought on originality
One man finds a pretty math equation and puts it into his chess program. Then like a million itty-bitty workers, they smash the giant slab of marble that is "the game of chess" into magic pixie dust. We take that pixie dust (I call it that because nobody even knows how it works) and vacuum it up so...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 6:13 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Is it a draw?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 677
Is it a draw?
[Event "Computer chess game"] [Site "DESKTOP-7QE6S12"] [Date "2021.01.16"] [Round "?"] [White "àåøé"] [Black "Stockfish_20123118_x64_bmi2"] [Result "*"] [BlackElo "2000"] [Time "18:43:26"] [WhiteElo "2000"] [TimeControl "300+20"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/p1Q2pk1/4p3/P2rP1p1/3b1PP1/5K2/8/8 w - - 0 1"] [T...
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:19 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Speaking of Blathy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2129
Re: Speaking of Blathy
For these I have a draw score, but many are wins: 1B1k4/3p1q2/1Kp5/PpP2p2/1P1P1P2/8/1P6/8 w - - acd 102; acs 300; bm a6; ce 0; c0 "td20#1121 {v} {m}; 1908; Blathy O; 1-0"; c2 "Bláthy, Ottó Titusz"; c3 "a6"; c6 "Arves.xxxxx"; pm a6; pv a6 Kc8 a7 Qa2 Bc7 Qa4 Bd6 Qa2; id "yacpdb id 278037"; 1krr1b2/2p...
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:04 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: positions when humans are stronger than engines
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3340
Re: positions when humans are stronger than engines
position number 4 is mate in 45 based on some backward analysis and not mate in 47 that I see in the fen [Event "Computer chess game"] [Site "DESKTOP-7QE6S12"] [Date "2021.01.15"] [Round "?"] [White "àåøé"] [Black "àåøé"] [Result "*"] [BlackElo "2400"] [Time "20:40:30"] [WhiteElo "2400"] [TimeContro...