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I've never had any luck with aspiration windows for Maverick. I've always assumed it was down to a poorly tuned evaluation function and generally weak-ish engine. I've always thought that when searching the first move, the hash table would guide the search down the previous PV and the window would q...

Has anyone come any test attempting to measure how good the new Apple M1 Silicon will be for running chess engines?

Steve

lkaufman wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 10, 2020 10:08 pm

<snip>We trained partly on 960 games, so this is not just a fluke.

It's just a gut feel, but I suspect this may be the secret sauce needed to create a super-aggressive evaluation function.

--- Steve

IMHO a complete and utter scam! If this is an elaborate scam!! I am sold, but how do they get my money? Who is going to buy this without independent reviews. You do have to admit they do CGI very well for a bunch of scammers. If it is a scam. They need to be selling the CGI or stop motion...well don...

Great project Bill! Keep us posted. I'd love to test it out when the time is right.

Steve

The scam continues. Here's an email I received: Following our successful campaign in Japan, we open our crowdfunding campaign to the rest of the world. Do not miss the opportunity to get your REGIUM e-Board at the best price!!  https://crowdfunding.regiumchess.com/regium They have created their own ...

During this global crisis online chess is an ideal activity for those stuck inside, especially kids. How about encouraging friend to play chess on social media? I created a meme, "Keep Calm and Play Chess" — feel free to use it (see attached), or download here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Av-O51pdCYBghqhV_D...

If you have a bare-bones engine with the following features: Piece-square evaluation Quiescent search Basic Null Move Transposition table Move ordering including Killers I'd expect it to play at about 2200 ELO on the CCRL scale. Adding mobility to the evaluation will add up to ~100 ELO; likewise for...

The Kickstarter project is now live. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soontech/regium-automatic-chess-e-board-0 No mention of the concerns. There are four comments claiming it's a scam. The comments have now been changed so only backers can post, and the creator is frantically trying to post lon...

AdminX wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:27 pm

This is one impressive demo for scam!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3WWuHgIwQ0

Hi Ted - notice you never see a human in the picture when thE pieces move. In later videos you do.

Steve