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Leo wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 03, 2019 7:46 pm

I remember Gary Kasparov saying he was a chess player when asked about FRC. I took that to mean he wasn't interested in FRC.

Maybe it meant he was!

Graham Banks wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:22 pm

Try the Hiarcs forum. He frequents there a lot.

Fernando
New postForum: Main Lobby / General Discussions Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 6:21 am Subject: Very difficult position

Seems he doesnt care about US any more!

I have no doubt! I said "so far".
By year 2100 he may well not be in top ten of history, even if he is now (which i dont know for sure).

I don't think Carlsen will ever be discredited as possibly the greatest player in history so far, even if or when he DOES go down. But btw, he just now made a bad start in a tournament, after taking a break from chess tournaments for a few weeks. It certainly doesn't mean he's starting to go down ye...

Today I ran a short 20-game match between Stockfish 10 and Lc0. Specs of the match: Stockfish 10 x64 BMI2 on Intel i7-6700K, 4 threads, 8GB hashtable Lc0 0.21.3, w42850 on GTX 1070. 4 threads, everything else default. Syzygy 5 men tablebase, 8 move Performance.bin opening book. Adjucation by GUI bo...

It's enough to be
1). Allowable in public opinion
2). Allowable in the press
3). Allowable to make investigations.
4). Can be used in court corruptly even if not officially allowed.allowed.

It's not everyday where a chess news is published on a tech site. Cheating caught with picture inside a bathroom. https://idle.slashdot.org/story/19/07/14/0610256/chess-grandmaster-caught-cheating-in-tournament-with-hidden-cellphone-in-bathroom Serious problem for human-human chess. There already e...

https://youtu.be/9n2IzwzLpD0
How could they video cam him in the toilet? Is that legal? Is it moral?

I am waiting to buy a new desktop myself. AMD is going to release its next generation ryzen 9 cpus with 12-core (24 threads) tomorrow. I think it will be very good hardware for stockfish at the half price of intel's cpus (500$ compared to 1100$). There 16-core version will not come out until septme...

There should be more computer with 2 pawns or Knight vs pawn odds that will bring back the challenge of Humans GMs vs top Engines. :shock: I believe that top GMs like Nakamura or MVL can bring back the excitement of Computer Vs Humans. Because, when does small material count? Mainly at the end of t...