Stockfish 17.1 - Stockfish 17 with HERT book

[Jouni]

4 cores game in 1 minute (no time losses)

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1   Stockfish 17      +7/=391/-2 50.63%  202.5/400
2   Stockfish 17.1    +2/=391/-7 49.38%  197.5/400

[Ajedrecista]

Hello Jouni:

Thanks for the test. Computer chess draw rate is approaching that of computer checkers, as I have said many times before. As a new analogy, scoring wins at top level nowadays (long time controls, fast hardware, top engines, great opening books, EGTB...) is like scoring goals at the Eton wall game:

[...] Goals (worth ten points) are very rare; they occur about once every couple of years, and no goals have been scored in the St Andrew's Day game since 1911, when future Prime Minister Harold MacMillan scored. [...]

Once in a blue moon.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

[Modern Times]

It is within error margins, but anyway it must be almost impossible to make any significant gains at bullet time control when the engine is already at the level it is, and I wouldn't expect any. I think long time controls with a large number of threads is the focus now.

[Jouni]

In SF match draw rate was 98 %! In SF - Obsidian match draw rate was about 84 %. So totally usable book.

[Ciekce]

we have radically different definitions of "usable"