HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT -- "LAS TORRES" NEW ENGINE THAT OBLITERATES STOCKFISH

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Re: HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT -- "LAS TORRES" NEW ENGINE THAT OBLITERATES STOCKFISH

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In order to be sure I even download a different version of stockfish when the changes are only in the code for more than one core and could reproduce the same moves and the same depths and the same scores for the first moves and for me that it is enough to be convinced that no learning happened from one stockfish to another one because there is no way one exe file can learn from the second one.
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Re: HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT -- "LAS TORRES" NEW ENGINE THAT OBLITERATES STOCKFISH

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Guys stop it please... this is about LAS TORRES, not stockfish... open a new thread for your discussion

I am here for thi samazing emaNNUEl thing, emanuel's F****art :P
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Re: HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT -- "LAS TORRES" NEW ENGINE THAT OBLITERATES STOCKFISH

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dangi12012 wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:13 pm
Uri Blass wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:06 pm
dangi12012 wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:15 pm
Uri Blass wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:31 pm Note that there were some bad opening like 1.g4 or 1.f3 but basically stockfish did not win many equal positions in the first match.

I will repeat the same experiment when the side with 100:1 nodes advantage is black and it is going to take many hours.

I used nodes and not time control so everybody can reproduce the games.
hash size is 2048 mbytes.
For tablebases I did not download the 6 piece tablebases and have only the 5 piece tablebases and my guess is that tablebases are not going to change much because I read that the advantage from tablebases for the latest version of stockfish is smaller.

It is possible to try to find equivalent normal time control to nodes in the meaning of playing strength for your computer.
Yes your claim was Black vs White has a high draw rate with 100:1 node advantage. You proved that 50M White vs 500k Black has 14/0 win rate which is expected.
Looking forward to your results.

And now I will tell you that you forgot one thing: The TT Table is shared among both engines. It is a memory mapped file that resides at a specific location. (last i read SF sourcecode). You can verify that by analysing a move for 10min. Then restarting analysis - you will see that exe is restarted. But the evaluation picks off where you stopped it. I dont know if the TT is compatible among different build versions but running both engines at the same time will have them both see the same hashset. (1.5 years ago maybe they changed it?)

If you run SF vs SF you will get a high draw rate. What you need to do Uri Blass - is to run one or both in seperate Virtual Machines.
I use ponder off games and I believe one stockfish cannot learn from another one.
I am going to check if I can reproduce the game as human-computer games simply by copying the moves of one side.

Note that white won 6 games and there were 14 draws in the match so it means majority of draws.
I started also opposite colors and so far black is leading 3-0 and 5 draws in that match.

When I tried 5000 nodes against 500 nodes I got 39.5-0.5 result for 5000 nodes so I believe with more nodes it is going to be more draws.
How many cores do you have? Maybe I can do it faster it with my Ryzen 5950x. I get 50MNodes/s on average. Also I can run up to 58GB hashtable. If hashtable is full the quality of moves also degrades a little bit.
Just send me a list of command line arguments and I will run it on SF Latest.
I am sure that you can do it faster.
I used only one core in my testing to have deterministic results.

I have more than one core but even with 8 cores I do not get close to 50M nodes/second.
You also have more hash then me(I used 2048 mbytes hash when I have 8192 mbytes memory in the computer).

I did not use a list of command line arguments but simply used banksia gui.
I used a pgn with all the possible moves of white as starting positions.
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Re: HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT -- "LAS TORRES" NEW ENGINE THAT OBLITERATES STOCKFISH

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amanjpro wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:19 pm Guys stop it please... this is about LAS TORRES, not stockfish... open a new thread for your discussion

I am here for thi samazing emaNNUEl thing, emanuel's F****art :P
People can continue the discussion in the following thread when I give results of my nodes match(I also did some matches that are nodes against time control but mainly nodes matches).

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