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Another thread is about online advertising for the forum resp. the sponsor. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is also mentioned. What do you google, chrome or explore with the keywords Computer Chess on the first pages, apart from Wikipedia, the movie of the same name and Amazon offers? I get chess.c...

Shoveling the job out to google or other advertising conglomerate isnt the only method of getting advertising onto a site. The "thats not how its done" thinking on the matter is equivalent to the old "sacrifices must be accepted" logic. You would think engine authors would understand that when give...

Nevertheless, advertising is still done by the holder of a site This is not how it works in 2018. Ads are delivered by adservers and auctioned in real-time. Adservers that the site hosters have no control and no say over. What you are suggesting is self-hosted advertising, and the truth is that nob...

But a few small silent banners might be something Modern advertising doesn't work this way anymore, those times are over. Today, advertising also includes user tracking across websites, which I do mind. There is no control over the ad servers so that they are attractive hacking targets and importan...

Dear forum community and officials , of course it is a satisfaction for an old computer chess friend that the forum continues. Many thanks to all those who organise and make the funds available. I was surprised that the best programmers, computer chess legends, well-known experts and testers gathere...

All in the title. Is it already too late to beat Leela as a human ? Seems the leela bot on lichess loose only against others bot... About home tournaments, zero chess and predictions Autodidactic or self-referential machine chess is still so new and unexplored that medicine men and fortune tellers ...

Some people recognize cryptic stuff, some don't. Cryptically? All right, decoding.... Crocodile or tree trunk? Chimera or correct perception? Reality or illusion? Fact or projection? Subjective or objective? True own playing style of a chess engine or only playful and benevolent human interpretatio...

SF is objectively stronger but K is ruthless once lurred into the imbalance swamp. https://www.lebigdata.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/data-swamp.jpg Don't see any crocodiles, oh wait, look again. The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is a large species of lizard and not a crocodile, Mr. Schroede...

Kai, By disabling turbo boost you are creating a more favorable setup for HT ON. It's as if the reserve CPU cycles (the "boost") are now available to the extra threads, making them more effective. However, leaving turbo boost ON, while disabling HT transfers that benefit to the physical CPUs. Fritz...

Sometimes history (an enormous history of wrong-doing) should be really enough for scepticism... Sceptism is fine. But it shouldn't lead to different standards. Especially from someone who himself released 2 clones as own work. Really, I didn't know that Günther Simon is a chess programer. What eng...