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Sorry man - but there is no post by me where I said "all Eman's author.." from the post you quoted or any other post by me, would appreciate it if you can fix your problem ok? - thank you!
I would think. Thank you.Ovyron wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 3:32 am Ah, he put MikeB in there instead of me.
When I say "Eman's author" I refer to Khalid Omar. This is by necessity because if I wanted to say "Eman's author is a thief", of course "Eman's authors are thieves" wouldn't work.
If I say "Honey's author" then I mean MikeB. Should be clear enough.
Don't worry about it. I was overtired and a little bit grouchy. You made an honest mistake. My apologies for being rude. We're good!
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The chess power of Stockfish is the most equalized one. If somebody modify its structure of code and parameters it is very possible the chess power of Stockfish will lessen. Only in some lucky cases we can hope for some enhancement in Elo.Ovyron wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:05 am You don't need to test for this. At Playchess people spend playing hundreds of games to decide which is the best thing they can use to maximize their performance, and they keep using the most effective thing for their book and hardware. They're not going to use Leela because on paper their GPU should be stronger than their CPU, they're going to use it only if it performs better. The "start game with Leela and switch to Stockfish" approach wasn't better for some than just Leela alone or Stockfish alone.
If Eman and its learning or another original feature was worth it, you could be dang sure that most people would use it. They prefer another version, which means that the answer you're looking for is: no. Eman is not the future number one.
I consider this "the real world", the top players play the strongest chess lines that they know, because this is the only remaining way to beat other top players. As opposed to "generic" openings used by CCRL, TCEC or someone testing engines at home. Most generic variations used have become as irrelevant as 1.c3, but people keep using them to test because they're happy if both engines play from the same position a set of games.
The top players will only play relevant lines, and it's in those where we will see if Leela is on top, or some Stockfish derivative, or even some combination of both. So how is Eman doing? Not better than Brainfish, at least, and people aren't even using Cerebellum library, so if this is just Stockfish, Eman hasn't been able to perform better than the engine it's based on, where it matters.
Book lines are queens, with a good book it doesn't matter if you're using some months old Stockfish dev.