WCCC June 27th in Leiden

[AdminX]

In the final game was this the critical position or was the game already bust form a strategical point of view?


Black to move 36. ...
Fen:5r1k/1pp3np/2nq1rpN/p7/3pRPPP/3P4/PPN1Q3/1K3R2 b - - 8 36

[Lyudmil Tsvetkov]

In the final game was this the critical position or was the game already bust form a strategical point of view?


Black to move 36. ...
Fen:5r1k/1pp3np/2nq1rpN/p7/3pRPPP/3P4/PPN1Q3/1K3R2 b - - 8 36

fully bust.

I would not say 3000 cores provide any substantial advantage: next year 300 000.

[AdminX]

fully bust.

I would not say 3000 cores provide any substantial advantage: next year 300 000.

That's what I suspect as well.

[Henk]

I think these programs are capturing to much. Never heard of take is a mistake.

[AdminX]

I think these programs are capturing to much. Never heard of take is a mistake.

I live by that rule, but engines often don't. At that level it's more about the exceptions to those rules. Way over my head.

[Modern Times]

Perhaps Komodo should play with many more cores too when hardware is important.

I'm sure that if they had had access to a machine with more cores they would have done so.

[hgm]

I thought I read somewhere here they were not even using all the cores of the machine they did have, because at some point using morecores was only detrimental?

Of course you can always use more cores for speculative pondering. That can never be detrimental.

[Henk]

Or maybe near the end game.

Assigning cores for computing end game table bases for expected end games.

Yesterday there was a possible KRRB - KRR endgame. Don't know if that is a draw or not.

By the way they call KRB-KR the headache ending.

[Eelco de Groot]

Just a crosspost from the tournaments forum, Mark Lefler about the software tournament (== equal hardware):

For those interested, the main page is here:

https://icga.leidenuniv.nl/?page_id=1679

With games streamed live here:

http://toernooien.krabbenbos.org/LiveWCSC2016.html

Mark

[Modern Times]

What hardware is it this time ?