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What are the benefits of using 5-men Syzygy tablebases ? Here a test with Komodo 8 on one core with 128 MB Hash. The tablebases were on a solid-state drive - Samsung 840 EVO. Four different time controls were tested, each 3000 games or 1520 at highest time control. 15 sec + 0.15 sec / 60 sec + 0.60...

Exciting stuff, many thanks to you for the commentary, and to Ray for running this. Comparing this and your previous tournament to TCEC, it seems the main things distinguishing SF and K are (a) 16 core play, (b) endgame play (with/without TB), (c) imbalance eval. (Of course, small sample blah blah....

GAME 41 - Stockfish completes a hat-trick with its third successive win. After there was seemingly nothing to be gained on the queenside, Stockfish again turned its attention to the kingside, slowly ratcheting up the pressure. Once Komodo was tied to defence there, the Stockfish pawns on the queens...

Here the results against Komodo 8 , same conditions: Program Elo + - Games Score Av.Op. Draws -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Stockfish 141112 T1 : 3027 6 6 6000 57.6 % 2973 51.2 % (+1920,=3071,-1009) 3455.5/6000 2 Komodo 8 T1 : 297...

Could be because of your used SALC openingsbook. Perhaps latest SFdevs could be improved especially in the field of opposite castling situations. Just my wild guess. I doubt that. If the SALC-set is the reason, then why only against Houdini and Komodo a very big gain and against Gull and Equinox no...

Could be because of your used SALC openingsbook. Perhaps latest SFdevs could be improved especially in the field of opposite castling situations. Just my wild guess. I doubt that. If the SALC-set is the reason, then why only against Houdini and Komodo a very big gain and against Gull and Equinox no...