20 elo in 3-ish (I think; when was 1.7 released?) months is very good. Plus cleaned up codebase, fixed bugs, etc. Amazing effort, Stockfish team.Houdini wrote:A 20 Elo improvement at the top is quite substantial, you guys have some unrealistic expectations. Congrats to the Stockfish team for continuing to improve their great engine!Ralph Stoesser wrote:1.8 is probably only about +20 ELO, but nevertheless it was a good idea to publish a new version. Bugs were fixed, redundant code was removed (for example queen contact mate detection in eval is gone!), many things were reorganized, the executables are noticable faster now. From what I've seen so far, I'm very happy with the 1.8 release. Good work! Germany vs. Argentina was ok, but most of the time I prefered to look at the 1.8 sources.
And Germany was awesome this afternoon, made Argentina look like a very poor team (like England) .
Robert
Yeah, I think someone's been poisoning the South American water. First Brazil losing to the Netherlands (of all places), now Argentina losing 4-zilch to Germany.
Peter