What happened to Cerebellum?

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Cardoso
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What happened to Cerebellum?

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Hi,
I never used Cerebellum in the past, but now I would like to have it but can't download it from:
https://zipproth.de/Brainfish/
Does anyone knows what happened?
Was it superseded by something better?

thanks
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Re: What happened to Cerebellum?

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Cardoso wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:44 pm Hi,
I never used Cerebellum in the past, but now I would like to have it but can't download it from:
https://zipproth.de/Brainfish/
Does anyone knows what happened?
Was it superseded by something better?

thanks
Yes it was superseeded by the NNUE development ;-)

Anyhow here you have a working wayback link for the last offered Cerebellum from 2020/09.
Generally you should always check wayback first for dead downloads.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210115151 ... /download/
https://rwbc-chess.de

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Re: What happened to Cerebellum?

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Cardoso wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:44 pm Hi,
I never used Cerebellum in the past, but now I would like to have it but can't download it from:
https://zipproth.de/Brainfish/
Does anyone knows what happened?
Was it superseded by something better?

thanks
The direct link works perfectly (for me, at least :lol: ):

https://zipproth.de/Brainfish/download/
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Re: What happened to Cerebellum?

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404 page not found
Nice try.
Why do you keep throlling every time?
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Re: What happened to Cerebellum?

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Damir wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 5:17 pm 404 page not found
Nice try.
Why do you keep throlling every time?
Another question ??? :lol:

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Re: What happened to Cerebellum?

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Damir wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 5:17 pm 404 page not found
Nice try.
Why do you keep throlling every time?
A „throll“ is who can‘t click on a link. :D
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Re: What happened to Cerebellum?

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Hmm, the top navi links on the webpage seem broken in my FireFox:

you should add "/" to the url:

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https://zipproth.de/Brainfish
to

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https://zipproth.de/Brainfish/
no more 404.

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Re: What happened to Cerebellum?

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Note the Cerebellum library was dead on arrival, Ed Schroder was able to create a book that would aim for Cerebellum's book holes and beat it, showing Cerebellum wasn't more useful than downloading the latest tournament book released by someone competing at Playchess (anybody using Cerebellum there would get destroyed) generous enough to share their work.

If you want true superseding you want this:

https://www.chessdb.cn/queryc_en/

You can have on demand the best move of most positions. Oh, you may have noticed that it has shown d4 is equal to most other opening moves, and e4 is barely better. Chess has died.

There's some chess engines that allow real time querying of chessdb so you can use it as an opening book like Cerebellum (but one self updated to improve), though I don't know what engines are the latest ones with that.
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Re: What happened to Cerebellum?

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Many thanks for you all.
Ovyron that was a tip I didn't know of, thx.
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Re: What happened to Cerebellum?

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Ovyron wrote: Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:29 am Note the Cerebellum library was dead on arrival, Ed Schroder was able to create a book that would aim for Cerebellum's book holes and beat it, showing Cerebellum wasn't more useful than downloading the latest tournament book released by someone competing at Playchess (anybody using Cerebellum there would get destroyed) generous enough to share their work.
That (super small) book only worked for for Cerebellum. It lost against all other books. It was just a way to show you can beat any book with limited move choices.
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