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Jouni wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:45 pm

Where is a GPU mate solver? 5000 cores just for mate. Should beat SF and Chest .

Now you’re talking

Finally!

A useful chess app for iOS!!

One comment: the text display needs improving below the screen. The nps runs off the screen regularly and is unreadable.
Some options: use shorthand like kn/s or mn/s to reduce the number of digits.
Or let the display run onto the 3rd line

Any news on a Komodo for iOS?

lkaufman wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:08 pm

Komodo 14.1 Release and Dragon Announcement

The improvement from Komodo 14.1 to Dragon is enormous, even larger than the gain Stockfish got from
this NNUE idea.

Strange.
For ages the marketing line / general understanding is that SF has the better search, and Komodo the better EF.

Cardoso wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:04 pm

This is in high contrast to Intel which has the biggest and most powerful army of engineers of the entire galaxy, maybe even in the local group of galaxies!

Well it's great they are the greatest in the Galaxy because all they've given us for 5 years is Skylake, Skylake, Skylake, Skylake

... And the reason for this is TCEC uses bias openings. If a match shows a win for both engines in the same line. It is a busted opening. But we already know from TCEC own words. Wins are more important for views. So this is expected. TCEC is not a fair competition, it is only an interesting show o...

wasn't there some kind of Thinker scandal?

syzygy wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:28 pm

Zen 3 was announced today:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-z ... aming-lead

I guess there is no information yet on whether pext/pdep were fixed.

Decent performance increase. I'm guessing Threadripper in Dec/Jan??

Apparently, it will offer 8 channel memory up to 2TB. But the burning question is, will it have a boatload of PCIE-4 channels like the EPYC chips do? I’ve been meaning to ask this for ages: for chess, I’m not sure the extra RAM channels will help much. CPU Clock speed is more important. In which ca...

I think they might, but I have not tinkered with it (Banksia) yet to see. Anyway, I downloaded them from here: https://c.gmx.net/@317206859884790529/9U7_drDsTfqpD6IUpWRCXg It's not a good idea to post this 'direct' link - it may change from time to time. The official place for CB-Emu is my website:...