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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50573071 Despite his retirement, Lee Se-dol is due to play against another AI system in December. He will play against HanDol, a program developed by South Korea's NHN Entertainment Corp, which has already defeated the country's top five Go players. Lee will be...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50573071 Despite his retirement, Lee Se-dol is due to play against another AI system in December. He will play against HanDol, a program developed by South Korea's NHN Entertainment Corp, which has already defeated the country's top five Go players. Lee will be...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50573071 Despite his retirement, Lee Se-dol is due to play against another AI system in December. He will play against HanDol, a program developed by South Korea's NHN Entertainment Corp, which has already defeated the country's top five Go players. Lee will be ...

Nay Lin Tun wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:56 am

Btw, a guy in lichess has played 0.35 million games. He might be the first human in history who played > 1 million record.

.35 million is not > 1 million.

<snip> syzygy lists these. [Event "KQPvKRR"] [Site ""] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "-"] [White "Syzygy"] [Black "Syzygy"] [Result "0-1"] [FEN "1r2k3/8/2P5/8/2Q5/5r2/4K3/8 b - - 0 1"] [Annotator "shakmaty-syzygy"] [WDL "Loss"] [DTZ "-100"] [WinningMoves ""] [DrawingMoves ""] [LosingMoves "Rf1, Rf2+, ...

It seems to me that Fischer Random is working out better than I expected; I thought it would solve only the preparation problem in chess, but it seems to be doing wonders for the draw rate as well, as has already been shown in computer chess in the CCRL testing. Do you have any thoughts on why Fisc...

I recall a time when a chess engine would think all night to achieve 17 plies. How would we have defined tactical and strategic then? I think the definition is a moving target. But I would put it this way: A strategic move is made using first principles without seeing a definite win of material or ...

It seems to me that Fischer Random is working out better than I expected; I thought it would solve only the preparation problem in chess, but it seems to be doing wonders for the draw rate as well, as has already been shown in computer chess in the CCRL testing. Do you have any thoughts on why Fisc...

Hmmm... There must be a communications issue. I'm not asking that the files be changed in anyway. Just for a short, representative list, (1 from each of several EGTB files (e.g. 1 from the KQPkrr file for example) of positions which represent a long mate that respects the 50-move rule. syzygy lists...

"Tactics is what you do when there is something to do. Strategy is what you do when there is nothing to do." BTW, the NN engines do not prove that tactics is not important. They prove they can avoid it against conventional engines. But the conventional engineswere never tuned to seek tactical compl...