Claims about Stockfish14.1 with no basis

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Cornfed
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Re: Claims about Stockfish14.1 with no basis

Post by Cornfed »

Eelco de Groot wrote: Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:30 pm I filed a new issue Recent Stockfish may lose games if given Queen odds. #3772.
The biggest 'nothingburger' in the history of 'computer' chess? :roll:

Seriously, if it is not something that is symptomatic of a larger issue and can be fix without an overall hit in play...fine, fix it.

Otherwise....
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Re: Claims about Stockfish14.1 with no basis

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Cornfed wrote: Sun Oct 31, 2021 11:51 pm
Eelco de Groot wrote: Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:30 pm I filed a new issue Recent Stockfish may lose games if given Queen odds. #3772.
The biggest 'nothingburger' in the history of 'computer' chess? :roll:

Seriously, if it is not something that is symptomatic of a larger issue and can be fix without an overall hit in play...fine, fix it.

Otherwise....
Could the rating lists be gamed in this way? If the opponent is SF 14.1, sacrifice a queen in the first few moves. These would certainly qualify as imbalanced openings. :D
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