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The ultimate reason was that on a null move I only flipped the white to move bit in the board but didn't clear the en passant bit allowing a "phantom" en passant capture for the wrong side. Interestingly, my engine has a similar issue, but since the capture works to the square behind e.p. square wh...

Ferdy wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:58 pm

Some engines are added. The top 3 are now CT800, Delfi and Stockfish.

Thanks for testing! Btw., the CT800 engine automatically scales up or down within a +/- 50 Elo window depending on the move time because humans make disproportionally more mistakes at short time controls.

I don't really see that as viable game controls for testing... with 1m+0.6s, the available time per move is already down to miliseconds when in the middle game. That's exaggerated. The fastest my engine can do is 1s/game fixed. With 10s/game, I see 100-200ms per move in the middle game. Plenty of t...

My old i7-6700K with 32 GB RAM and GTX 1070 is more than fast enough to handle everything, except testing chess engines. 2m+1s is 2m+1s on any computer.... the only thing that helps there is more cores. Or using shorter time controls. I test at 10s fixed, but 50k games, and eight games in parallel ...

But then again switching to Linux from Windows also requires an effort for an average Joe, despite your experiences. Sure it is easier now than ever, but still not painless for most. Sure it's an effort. Choosing a Linux distro (googling for "beginner Linux"), making a bootable USB stick under Wind...

Looks like you need to examine what the input parser is doing. That's also where I'd look first. Maybe the "stop" gets already consumed in the input parser where it would just be ignored so that by the time the input scanner in search gets around to checking the pipe, the "stop" is already gone. It...

Indeed - and if the QWERTY keyboard was good enough in 1874, then there's absolutely no reason to question its usage today! :roll: A keyboard is still the most efficient way to enter text. Sure, the layout could be changed, but that's a funny path dependency here so that it won't, even after the or...

The best hope going forward is that the desktop steadily diminishes in importance Which it won't because the decreasing relative importance is due to the growth of smartphones and tablets - but these are devices for consuming content, not creating. the keyboard becomes obsolete and the concept of t...

Sorry but that's not more of a "technical support" than any random linux user forum. As first hand experience in end user support (i.e. not counting my own machines), I can state that I stopped doing any kind of Windows support in my near family because Windows has become too much of a hassle. I of...

Milos wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:18 pm

Well what can I tell beside it has zero relevance to reality.

Just as your attempt at trolling, which is as poor as usually (edit: i.e. when you troll, not always). Case dismissed.