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This is because you mistake it to be a World Championship for engines. While in fact it is a World Championship for programmers / book builders / hardware constructors. If anything is amiss it is the notion that when you download an engine and are running it on your run-of-the-mill PC, you are doin...

Welcome back! I'm looking forward to testing Colossus 2019.

Here is a tb-master archive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JVuG7gYOAVGVfqq4IkE3eGKajIepHnaj In the src folder you will find all the 64 bit binaries. There is also a batch file called generate.bat that will create all the tablebase files up to 6 men. Dann - perfect, you're a gent!! Thanks, Steve

syzygy wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:28 pm

See the attachment:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... de6#p82005

Thanks but I don't have perl on my machine. Last time I didn't have perl and managed to generate them all.

Best regards,

Steve

On my old laptop I generated the 6-piece syzygy tablesbases. As I remember I downloaded a zip file containing the necessary exe and ran a batch file. I now have a new laptop but can't find the files to download. Can someone send me a link to generating all 6 pieces tablesbases? If possible I don't w...

Franz Huber has packaged together an emulator for the TASC ChessMachine. For those who don't know, the ChessMachine was a hardware card for PCs. It was launched in 1991 and contained the World Championship Gideon program from Ed Schroeder. TASC also included The King 0.5 by Johann de Koning, which w...

Hi Louis, Most people are quite chilled about memory / thread usage unless you're being a real resource hog. So to answer your questions: 1. You can interpret the TT size as the actual TT size. Things like a pawn hash are usually relatively small and can be considered to be in addition to the TT siz...

Hi Michael,

Michael Sherwin wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 19, 2019 3:25 pm

(...) I do expect it to shine in the normal ab search though! We will see.

For it to shine in alpha / beta it will need to efficient at validating the hash move as legal and generating captures. Do you think this will be the case?

Cheers,

Steve

Hey Michael,

This looks interesting. How does it perform in perf tests?

BTW: if you'd like to write it up I'd be happy to publish it as a blog article on chessprogramming.net

Steve

It's interesting that Komodo seems to excel in this position. Clearly Mark and Larry have devised some clever logic. The position reminds me of the game Jonny vs. Komodo from the WCCC in 2015; a blocked game where Komodo was eventually out maneuvered. I wonder if Mark and Larry developed the heurist...