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Sigh. Ok, well thanks for trying.

Seriously, I've been trying to get an answer on this question for close to a year now. Somebody must have some kind of measurement of this thing. Anyone? TCEC, two machines, 1) CPU-centric, 2) GPU-centric. What is the electricity draw of machine 1, machine 2?

Question: What is the precise power draw from the A/B machine and the NN machine in the current TCEC 15 Superfinal? We can calculate this value based on hardware specs, but I want to know based on actual measurements, such as with a Kill-A-Watt or similar. Even better, I'd like to see a power use gr...

Equal power consumption. That is by far my number one criteria. After that would be memory; each machine should get the same amount of memory. I think eventually hardware prices, which are driven by marketing, tend to level out. So I think CPU vs GPU should be judged by watts drained out of the wall...

Does the Leela Ratio reflect CPU vs GPU watt usage? https://blog.lczero.org/2018/07/04/leela-ratio/ I.e., if a computer running Stockfish compared to a computer running Leela Zero registers a Leela Ratio of 1.0, and then we measure power usage of each computer (say using a Kill A Watt meter), will t...

How was the rusftish source created? Is it generated from the C++ source, or is it hand built?

I saw this on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wujy7OzvdJk Video description: 2017 NIPS Keynote by DeepMind's David Silver. Dr. David Silver leads the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind and is lead researcher on AlphaGo. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1997 with the ...

Thanks Mark, that answers a lot of questions

If you're curious, this "abstract base class" is a concept from the realm of object oriented programming. For instance, you might have a program part of which deals with bicycles. In particular, say you have some mountain bikes and some road bikes. Some things are different between those. Perhaps on...

Wow guys, thanks so much!! I was seeing some discussion of the "rating inflation" question over on the Chessbrah forum (on a "Discord" server). Some basic googling led me to the 2011 paper but nothing more recent. Your feedback (particularly from an author!) is much appreciated!

--Kai M.