Laser 1.5 Release

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jeffreyan11
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Laser 1.5 Release

Post by jeffreyan11 »

Laser 1.5 has now been released and is available at
https://github.com/jeffreyan11/uci-ches ... s/tag/v1.5

Self-play regressions:
+84 in 8000 games at 3+0.02
+97 in 4000 games at 15+0.05

Estimated CCRL elo is 3110

Major changes:
Multiple bugfixes
Low depth pruning changes
Evaluation tuning
Implement pondering: This is a preliminary release of pondering, which may not work with GUIs other than Cutechess. Pondering support will continue to improve in future versions.
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Graham Banks
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Re: Laser 1.5 Release

Post by Graham Banks »

Impressive progress! :)
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Damir
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Re: Laser 1.5 Release

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Very Good Jeffrey. Keep up the good work. :)
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Re: Laser 1.5 Release

Post by Dokterchen »

Awesome progress! Thank you Jeffrey.
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Re: Laser 1.5 Release

Post by IanO »

Congrats on the plus result in the TCEC rapid tournament. Looks like your progress is far outstripping Laser's 2510 rating!
ThatsIt
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Re: Laser 1.5 Release

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jeffreyan11 wrote: [...snip...]
Implement pondering: This is a preliminary release of pondering, which may not work with GUIs other than Cutechess. Pondering support will continue to improve in future versions.

Pondering works under Shredder Classic and Arena too.
And, the first match result looks also pretty well:
http://cegt.forumieren.com/t916-testing ... 5-x64#1969.

Best wishes,
G.S.
(CEGT team)
Dan Cooper
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Re: Laser 1.5 Release

Post by Dan Cooper »

Laser hype!
jeffreyan11
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Re: Laser 1.5 Release

Post by jeffreyan11 »

That's good news, thanks for testing!
ThatsIt wrote:
jeffreyan11 wrote: [...snip...]
Implement pondering: This is a preliminary release of pondering, which may not work with GUIs other than Cutechess. Pondering support will continue to improve in future versions.

Pondering works under Shredder Classic and Arena too.
And, the first match result looks also pretty well:
http://cegt.forumieren.com/t916-testing ... 5-x64#1969.

Best wishes,
G.S.
(CEGT team)