Live Chess 960 Match Dragon by Komodo Chess vs Stockfish 291120 (TC=90m+30s)(32 Threads)

[Uri Blass]

Amazing, only one decisive game out of forty, and this is chess 960, the supposed antidote to all the draws from the Berlin defense and other defenses analyzed to a draw! With such engines available to all, how does anyone play correspondence chess anymore?

These engines are incredibly close in Elo, we have a long time control and big hardware. There were never going to be any miracles. I'd hoped for more than just one decided game though !

We are down to the last game. Playing game 50. Stockfish leads by +1 in 49 games.

NNUE is very strange. I am going to play Stockfish NNUE vs Stockfish NNUE. Same time controls, but give one Stockfish NNUE x2 the speed or time. And I have a feeling we will not see much gain. But this needs to be tested to see what is going on with the games with the NNUE engines.

If the problem is only with NNUE then giving twice the time to Dragon should give different results unless dragon is considered to be also a NNUE engine.

[mwyoung]

Amazing, only one decisive game out of forty, and this is chess 960, the supposed antidote to all the draws from the Berlin defense and other defenses analyzed to a draw! With such engines available to all, how does anyone play correspondence chess anymore?

These engines are incredibly close in Elo, we have a long time control and big hardware. There were never going to be any miracles. I'd hoped for more than just one decided game though !

We are down to the last game. Playing game 50. Stockfish leads by +1 in 49 games.

NNUE is very strange. I am going to play Stockfish NNUE vs Stockfish NNUE. Same time controls, but give one Stockfish NNUE x2 the speed or time. And I have a feeling we will not see much gain. But this needs to be tested to see what is going on with the games with the NNUE engines.

If the problem is only with NNUE then giving twice the time to Dragon should give different results unless dragon is considered to be also a NNUE engine.

Dragon is a NNUE engine.

[Nordlandia]

So what is next on your schedule. I propose Dragon against Stockfish Classic. Contempt need to be adjusted to compensate for Classic though.

Fischer Random.