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There was a recent update of an old thread viewtopic.php?f=7&t=67432 that suggested there is no improvement.

I'm also not aware of any improvements, but I only follow these things loosely, so take with a grain of salt

yurikvelo wrote: ↑

Mon May 04, 2020 1:03 pm

3.5 also works fine, I didn't notice I could un-check "Common max CPU cores" under UCI tab.
When unchecked - Threads option arrives in per-engine settings

That's excellent to hear. I'm glad I could help a little bit

Milos wrote: ↑

Mon May 04, 2020 12:45 pm

There is "Common max CPU cores" setting in 3.5.

Ah, thanks for that

If it works like the common UCI settings that exist in 3.0, it should be possible to uncheck that setting and use per-engine settings.

Of course, I guess I should just acquire 3.5 instead of speculating

Thread option in Arena is not per-engine, it is per-GUI. This is not true. I configure different thread settings per engine in Arena all the time. Just right-click the engine name in the engine output pane, click on "Configure <your engine name>", and set the threads setting to an appropriate value...

I know from experience that 4 ed: is difficult to play. If you make one more bad move in that position it is certainly lost. Sure, if you have difficulty playing the resulting positions and aren't really interested in spending the time and effort getting more comfortable with them, Nbd7 is a fine a...

A few points on the original post: 1) Even if we were blindly trusting that SF's first choice at some arbitrary depth was "the truth", the evals for exd4 and Nbd7 are very close at most depths, certainly not different enough to think SF clearly prefers one over the other. Which it prefers could easi...

It's an interesting thought, and I would be curious to see how such an approach played, regardless of its strength (which I suspect would not be so good). Something like this was the best performing approach to Hex for a while (15-20+ years ago), but has since been superseded by other approaches eve...

Just played this, K13 AB, 8 threads on Moto G6, contempt 200: [Event "Chess for Android Game"] [Site "United States"] [Date "2020.04.25"] [Round "?"] [White "Komodo 13.1 32-bit "] [WhiteElo "-"] [Black "Self"] [BlackElo "-"] [Result "0-1"] [PlyCount "148"] [TimeControl "180+2"] [Device "moto g(6)"]...

Sure, that's fair.

As you say, it's all relative, and compared to a 2250 with 15+10 (what I was responding to) my play in 3+2 or 5+0 probably qualifies as not that good

No FIDE, pretty much just follow chess events and play bullet occasionally.

Been a couple years since I played regularly online, was ~2350 lichess bullet.