Avalanche of Elo

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Dann Corbit
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Avalanche of Elo

Post by Dann Corbit »

Take a look at all the positive patches today:
http://abrok.eu/stockfish/
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mar
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Re: Avalanche of Elo

Post by mar »

...I bet new Houdini will require a strong GPU :)
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Re: Avalanche of Elo

Post by Dann Corbit »

I think that a hybrid approach will be the next revolution.
Strengths of the alpha-beta together with strength of the NN searchers.
Perhaps the evaluation results of a position could be additional input into the net.
E.g., when a ply was finished, the estimates are examined, along with the other factors.
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