Can somebody explain what is going on Komodo Dragon beating LCZERO!

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Chessqueen
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Can somebody explain what is going on Komodo Dragon beating LCZERO!

Post by Chessqueen »

Is it a New Opening Book by Komodo Dragon or a Newer version of Komodo Dragon that is beating LCZero :?:
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Re: Can somebody explain what is going on Komodo Dragon beating LCZERO!

Post by Dann Corbit »

Komodo is one win ahead, nothing to get hyper about. They are trying out a special book. You will notice in the LC0 book name that the only difference between the two LC0 books is that one has a plus sign and the other has a minus sign.
So this is intended as the testing of some factor in a custom book.
I would not read too much into it.
Komodo is quite strong and so it would not be terribly surprising if the competition Komodo and LC0 had this same result after this many games.
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