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The second link is a song by Helen Reddy called "You and me against the world."
The first link is an EPD file named "youi-and-me-against-the-world.epd"

I guess that two chessmen facing the whole opposing army of 16 is an example of "you and me against the world"

But what do I know.

towforce wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 22, 2021 8:32 am

More importantly, I now know what the American word "Bozo" means!

Don't forget the French version, Beauzeaux

We used to have advertisements for Gai's bakery featuring Professor Beauzeaux.
Tragic that they were discontinued.

There was a scorpio engine that worked as a cluster.
Don't remember which version.
Colchess has a cluster version.

You are not going to get double speed with two machines using any of them.

I ran a tournament using various Nets that I was told were good ones at one time or another. Here is the result: # Program Elo + - Games Score Av.Op. Draws - -------------------- ---- -- -- --- ------ ---- ------ 1 Lc0-68002 : 3430 15 15 500 55.2 % 3394 74.8 % 2 Lc0-68501 : 3415 14 14 500 52.6 % 339...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cMQ4v4 ... sp=sharing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJAKmWAIKcY
Two chessmen bravely face 16.
Sorted by lowest score to highest.

Some of the draws are probably wrong.

People here like chess puzzles. I guess the big problem for me was what is a puzzle 'like this'? Same chessmen? King in a corner with one friendly rook on the board? Such constructions with a queen instead of rook are much more common. Given enough information, we can probably find such things with...

Certainly you are right and the OP deserves better. Other than the original posted here, only the 15 alternatives: 1Kr4k/3R4/1P1Q1P2/1P2BBR1/1P6/1P6/1PP3P1/2NN4 w - - pv Ka7; 2nn4/1pp3p1/1p6/1p6/1p2bbr1/1p1q1p2/1k1r4/2R4K b - - pv Ka2; 2nn4/1pp3p1/1p6/1p6/1p2bbr1/1p1q1p2/3r4/1kR4K b - - pv Ka2; 2nn...

OK, thanks, that makes perfect sense.
Compilers today can be incredibly efficient.
Long ago, they could eliminate tail recursion.
Now, they even improve algorithms (no, really).

Certainly you are right and the OP deserves better. Other than the original posted here, only the 15 alternatives: 1Kr4k/3R4/1P1Q1P2/1P2BBR1/1P6/1P6/1PP3P1/2NN4 w - - pv Ka7; 2nn4/1pp3p1/1p6/1p6/1p2bbr1/1p1q1p2/1k1r4/2R4K b - - pv Ka2; 2nn4/1pp3p1/1p6/1p6/1p2bbr1/1p1q1p2/3r4/1kR4K b - - pv Ka2; 2nn4...

Typically, Stockfish of old would be about one megabyte. But now that everyone is pulling 20MB of dead weight NN nodes into the binary (we used to read data with I/O, but today people can't be bothered to browse to a file), it has ballooned into a blue whale. Well, I do have a 140 TB disk server, so...