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If they figure out how to get GPU cards the do alpha beta, or they get GPU cards to do full recursion without wait, then the Alpha beta searcher engines will mop the floor with the NN engines, laughing all the way to the bank. The compute cycles of the GPU cards are orders of magnitude higher than t...

Also interesting is the cost per dollar calculation for various cards here:
https://timdettmers.com/2019/04/03/whic ... -learning/

It is an important and interesting question.
Here is a benchmark link for various blas type bundles:
https://medium.com/datathings/benchmark ... 57fb1c6dc7

I think it was clear who was the best in several time periods (even if, as you said, it didn't coincide with who was champion), and we didn't need hundreds of thousands of games to know. I have never said one hundred thousand games are necessary. If there is decent separation in the real strength a...

It does not really matter if there is a mate inside the book line on the way to the book exit point if both engines play the same opening and then reverse it. First, we are not trying to discover the strongest chess lines. Contests like Sedat's book tournaments {attempt to} discover the best opening...

How many of those were the best players in the world at the time they were champions? That is an important illustration between what a champion is and who the best player is. Are you saying we never knew who was the best player in the world in any time period because it was never proven scientifica...

Dann Corbit wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 15, 2019 5:05 am

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Fri Jun 14, 2019 10:40 am

I still have to dig in this set : viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69687

I have analyzed all of them. I have different answers for about half

I am not a fan of the "LC0 style scoring." Worse, you cannot turn it off when it sees a win. I chose ce in the UCI options. Analyzing this position: 8/8/3R3K/P7/8/4ppk1/8/8 w - - I get this: Avoid move: Best move (McCain-X4-modern-64): Rd6-g6 Not found in: 01:00 Found 510 tablebases 1/2 00:01 108 10...

Probably needs an aligned allocation. Objects can be different sizes because of the OS and compiler. For instance, with GCC on a 64 bit Linux, long is 8 bytes but on 64 bit windows it is 4 bytes. I didn't even look at the code yet so this is a guess. Strange that an assert was used since it sounds l...