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By today's standards at move 12, we are still in the middle of the opening book. I suspect the results are biased. Try the same but start for example at move 20 to see if there is a difference between the results. In their matches, Kasparov & Karpov played the same opening over and over until beate...

By today's standards at move 12, we are still in the middle of the opening book. I suspect the results are biased. Try the same but start for example at move 20 to see if there is a difference between the results. In their matches, Kasparov & Karpov played the same opening over and over until beaten...

It all depends very much upon the quality of the evaluation-function and the quiescence-search. When you play a game against an engine with aproximately the same strength the root-score will deviate only a few centipawns during the whole game and you can set a very narrow window without having to r...

One of the administrators at TCEC, Aloril, has recently developed a variant of chess called Reset-Mobility chess, or R-Mobility chess, which is a generalisation of Lasker chess (where stalemate = 0.75 points) to every chess game that ends in a draw. The goal of Reset-Mobility chess is to force your...

They are for MadChess. I posted a detailed explanation on my blog at MadChess 3.0 Beta 4b7963b (Remove Aspiration Windows) . Long story short: problems with search instability... fail high, fail low, fail high again, etc. In the following position, MadChess, when using aspiration windows, struggles...

More than 20 years ago I used comp.lang.c & comp.lang.c++ news groups from the Netscape mail
I don't know if they are still alive, but I liked those groups a lot.

hi, I dont know if this is good for this forum, but I ran into a problem when programming the network in my chess engine. I use the cppflow c_api wrapper and I converted my model to a pb file with https://medium.com/@sebastingarcaacosta/how-to-export-a-tensorflow-2-x-keras-model-to-a-frozen-and-opt...

Hi guys I know this topic has been discussed before in some threads and I remember someone was mentioning LMR adjustments, but I can't find that post. So could someone please kindly explain the general principals of which parts of a search actually influence the tactical vs positional playing style...

Ras wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:19 am

Karlo Bala wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:09 am

Could someone explain to me in 3 simple sentences?

This forum is hosted for free by ChessUSA. Since we are not paying hosting customers, we cannot demand any serious hosting support. That's only two sentences, but now it's three.

Thanks

What exactly does "serious hosting support" mean?

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what the problem is at all. Could someone explain to me in 3 simple sentences?