Stockfish 1.8 JA available

[swami]

This is the settings from Lucenathelucid



http://sites.google.com/site/strategict ... st-results

1000 Positions
10 seconds per position
Hardware: Q6600, 32 bits, 2 GB RAM, 2.4 GHZ. Arena 2.01 GUI.

[Ralph Stoesser]

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.

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!
And Germany was awesome this afternoon, made Argentina look like a very poor team (like England) .

Robert

I think the real Elo race has not yet begun.
The acutal 1.8 source code is a great base for further improvements.

[Paloma]

Hi,
would you share the tactical settings?

[swami]

Hi,
would you share the tactical settings?

According to Luecenathelucid, this stockfish setting is private.

http://open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=366

You could ask him though.

[JWorcester]

Indeed thanks to JA and the SF team. Another few days of testing ahead.. Wheeeee

[Wayne Lowrance]

Howdy, Nice to see Stockfish development. I do not understand the meaning of the variable tables. It appears that testing is done @ 32 bits. Does 64 bit stockfish exist ? Thank you
Wayne

[ernest]

Does 64 bit stockfish exist ?

Howdy Wayne,
Sometimes i wonder... are you just playing stupid???

[LucenaTheLucid]

According to Luecenathelucid, this stockfish setting is private.

http://open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=366

Nice. Private settings of a free engine. Not that I believe in these setting wizardries.

They will be released in due time. I do not intend to keep them private forever, just until I get everything the way I want it.

[Wayne Lowrance]

I guess I am. I should have checked
"stockfish -18-64-ja.exe"
Wayne

[Milos]

For a stable rating 650 games are enough +-10. Only in 1/52 cases a rating will have more as +-10 if 650 games played ... if enough opponents in a list.

This is simply impossible. Check your Bayeselo or whatever you are using...
And 1/52 is also wrong. It's a two-tailed test so it cannot be 2.5% for 2 sigma, but only 5%.
In your case it's actually 1 sigma instead of 2 (+/-10 elo for 650 games).