Chess System Tal 2 NNUE has been released

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Re: Chess System Tal 2 NNUE has been released

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hammerklavier wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:35 pm Great News!!! Please Chris & Ed.... Release x64bit version without avx mandatory ... with 64-bit for old cpus, a lot of friends can use yours programs! My Q6600 is still in race! sadly cannot run Rebel 16.2 and Cstal 2 nnue . Thanks a Lot!
Talked at Length to Mr Prodeo/Rebel about this issue at a few times last year....."Nobody looking for serious testing that I can recall only releases one compile of a Chess engine...Therefore we must assume Rebel it not very interested in very many/most people playing or testing it"...."Shoulder shrug" :) 8-) :wink:
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Re: Chess System Tal 2 NNUE has been released

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supersharp77 wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 9:07 pm
hammerklavier wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:35 pm Great News!!! Please Chris & Ed.... Release x64bit version without avx mandatory ... with 64-bit for old cpus, a lot of friends can use yours programs! My Q6600 is still in race! sadly cannot run Rebel 16.2 and Cstal 2 nnue . Thanks a Lot!
Talked at Length to Mr Prodeo/Rebel about this issue at a few times last year....."Nobody looking for serious testing that I can recall only releases one compile of a Chess engine...Therefore we must assume Rebel it not very interested in very many/most people playing or testing it"...."Shoulder shrug" :) 8-) :wink:
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Re: Chess System Tal 2 NNUE has been released

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I know this is going to sound bizarre, but in my admittedly small sample size, EAS has a much higher draw rate (as in 15% higher) and also had a better Elo result. The performance is not reliable for Elo measurements, even if a 12 Elo difference, but the unusually high draw rate difference caught me off-guard as I expected EAS to be the non-drawing one, when it scored 85% draws, compared to Elo which had 71%. Am I alone in this sort of finding?
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