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hgm wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:05 pm

This is quite slow code, right? Why not just return dir[t-f+63];, with a suitably filled char table dir[127];?

Maybe cache pressure?

Micah 2.0 is uploaded https://vanheusden.com/Micah/files/Micah-2.0-win64.zip changes: +30 elo Thanks Folkert. It will be good to see it overtake Embla. EDIT: Oh, Shredder 13 says it is not a UCI engine and can't install it. And from the command line I get: " 0 [] Micah_2.0-x64 30 cygwin_exception::...

Micah 2.0 is uploaded

https://vanheusden.com/Micah/files/Micah-2.0-win64.zip

changes:
+30 elo

Rebel wrote: ↑

Sat May 30, 2020 2:10 pm

Impressive Pink Floyd song choice at the funeral.

Rest in peace Marcel, it was good to know you.

I found it very impressive that his dad could talk.

Hi, May 25, 2020 Marcel van Kervinck passed away. Marcel was the developer of Rookie, MSCP and Floyd. From December 2012 until November 2014, he was a member of the board of the CSVN (Dutch computer chess association). There will be a virtual funeral this saturday. Please send me an e-mail if you wo...

Harm, Somewhere, I can't recall if it was on this forum or not, you had some posted some code that implemented what I had always thought was "true" Internal Iterative Deepening (IID). When I first heard about IID I understood the concept to be that inside a search node, the available moves are sear...

Harm, Somewhere, I can't recall if it was on this forum or not, you had some posted some code that implemented what I had always thought was "true" Internal Iterative Deepening (IID). When I first heard about IID I understood the concept to be that inside a search node, the available moves are sear...

swissman wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:31 pm

Dear chessfriends

Are there any engines anywhere that play differently from Stockfish, Komodo and company - except FatFritz and Lc0?

https://vanheusden.com/pos/

So, rumour goes that Micah has bugs. Has anyone followed it during this tournament? For example here it played Bc6 after a couple of moves: [Event "ICS rated blitz game"] [Site "nightmare-chess.nl 5000"] [Date "2020.04.18"] [Time "20:30:00"] [Round "-"] [White "Micah"] [Black "RookieMonster"] [White...

Graham/others,

At https://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/404FRC/r ... t_all.html I read that a 5 men tablebase is used.

My question now is: is the tb used in the tournament software? Or are syzgy/others selected in the chess-program? ("engine")