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Hi Marc, Thanks for posting link to your web-site. Pages about rating estimation are particularly interesting. Thanks Do you have ideas to further improve the accuracy of fast rating estimation? As I am member of an engine "team", I am always trying to find better and faster methods for comparing t...

No dot at the end of the URL : should be:

http://chessbazaar.mlweb.info

... has been rejuvenated and I intend to add content more regularly.
Address is still http://chessbazaar.mlweb.info.
I hope computer chess fans will find some interesting info there.
There is a linked blog where comments and suggestions are welcome.

Marc

This event is a _lot_ bigger than just a couple of lazy programming teams. It has 35 years of history behind it that should _not_ be undone. The old WMCCC events were limited hardware. The WCCCs never were. Go back to the WMCCC event if you insist on uniform hardware and let the WCCC mean that the ...

I plan on doing just that. Please do! ... and if possible do allow windows boxes to be included. Here at home I have one quad and four duals that I use 100%, 100%, 100%, 30% and 10% for chess (four of them under XP 64 and one under XP 32bits). I am pretty sure there must be quite a few CCC members ...

As to Caruana, he is 16, (...) He won the Wijk an Zee B tournament this year with a fantastic last round win against GM Nigel Short (...) Albert If I remember correctly Short blundered horribly in the late phase of the game after having completely dominated the young guy (I could be wrong, because ...

Hi But I'd like to have some databases of some high quality games played by comps too? Any good sources or are they all generally kept private? Games played online between engines in Playchess Engine Room are also interesting. For games played before march 2009, do look at : http://spaghettichess.c...

Could be, if the Xboard protocol's limitations (eg. time control options), and the slight computational overhead of Polyglot are not a problem to him. Myabe what he meant was to run the engine using polyglot in cutechess. Is that possible? Sure, but then the engine will play in Xboard mode, and UCI...

I would think that really cool would be to have Cute Chess be able to read polyglot.ini files for configuring engines. It would be nice to not need multiple redundant config files for each engine. For now it would probably be easier in Marc's case to just run the engine via polyglot? As I use cutec...

Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:Not that I'm not gonna try

You already have one of the finest bookers working with you !

Good luck!

Marc