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- Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:03 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Evaluation of moves from World Championship Games
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1668
Re: Evaluation of moves from World Championship Games
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...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:14 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Evaluation of moves from World Championship Games
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1668
Re: Evaluation of moves from World Championship Games
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...
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:23 am
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: Programming and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Are Aspiration Windows Worthless?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3328
Re: Are Aspiration Windows Worthless?
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...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 1:33 am
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: Reset-Mobility Chess
- Replies: 5
- Views: 535
Re: Reset-Mobility Chess
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...
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: Programming and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Are Aspiration Windows Worthless?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3328
Re: Are Aspiration Windows Worthless?
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...
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 10:33 am
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: Programming and Technical Discussions
- Topic: Recommendation for C++ Programming Forums?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1332
Re: Recommendation for C++ Programming Forums?
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.

I don't know if they are still alive, but I liked those groups a lot.
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 2:19 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: Programming and Technical Discussions
- Topic: tensorflow c++ model from keras model doesnt have "init" operation
- Replies: 1
- Views: 777
Re: tensorflow c++ model from keras model doesnt have "init" operation
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...
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 7:00 pm
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: Programming and Technical Discussions
- Topic: How to make engine more tactical and less positional
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1649
Re: How to make engine more tactical and less positional
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...
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:43 am
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: *** General user warnings ***
- Replies: 80
- Views: 6711
Re: *** General user warnings ***
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:09 am
- Forum: Computer Chess Club: General Topics
- Topic: *** General user warnings ***
- Replies: 80
- Views: 6711
Re: *** General user warnings ***
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what the problem is at all. Could someone explain to me in 3 simple sentences?