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I think one reason is what many mentioned, it is a escape from work. I've done few programming currently, I am more on a system analyst role, so in chess programming I can do at my own pace, test ideas, learn, and take breaks. But i think the main reason for me is the "wow" moment, when your "creati...

Thanks Graham for running the series! Much appreciated!

Condolences to family and friends.

I'd like to participate too with Tucano.

Thanks

Thanks for sharing Daniel, and good luck at TCEC!

Hey Peter, it seems you did a very sophisticated tablebase implementation. I am planning to implement egtb in my engine and I was planning to implement syzygy support. Since I am not familiar with egtb implementation I was wondering why you need to complement with gaviota. In other words what I wil...

Hey Peter, it seems you did a very sophisticated tablebase implementation. I am planning to implement egtb in my engine and I was planning to implement syzygy support. Since I am not familiar with egtb implementation I was wondering why you need to complement with gaviota. In other words what I will...

I just bought a W10 mini pc windows. About U$80 from amazon. I am testing it now. If it goes well i will probably buy another 1 or 2. I like because it comes with windows 10. I use visual studio to develop. So I just insert a pen drive and start cutechess. In my case it is very convenient. Does any...

Roughly how many do you mean by 'some'? There are ppl that do a not bad engine with just for example one 4 core computer. Ok, this is a bit short but specially in the beginnings most improvements are big enough to be detectable statistically with not that much games. When you arrive to do improveme...

I just bought a W10 mini pc windows. About U$80 from amazon. I am testing it now. If it goes well i will probably buy another 1 or 2. I like because it comes with windows 10. I use visual studio to develop. So I just insert a pen drive and start cutechess. In my case it is very convenient. Does anyo...