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Announcement from Leela discord. Long time community member and developer @dje has created a new chess engine that uses Leela Chess Zero networks. It appears much stronger than lc0 (see the performance test below). The build process is currently being worked on so please be patient while the commun...

CPUs: 2 x AMD EPYC 7H12 GPU: 2x A100 (40 GB GPU memory) Cores: 256 cores (128 physical) RAM: 512GB DIMM DDR4 2933 MHz (0.3 ns) SSD: 2x Micron 5210 MTFD (2TB) in RAID1 OS: CentOS 8 What's TCEC answer :) ? Why do they need to answer. Both have massive hardware. Will it change any results. If you noti...

Pi4Chess wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 06, 2020 6:47 pm

If they find an interest in Chess for a try, then may resolve it and it might soon be the end of Computer Chess

Are you serious or joking?

You know what else hasn't happened in a long time? A very popular Netflix show about chess being released shortly before the Black Friday shopping holiday (Which was Friday), at the same time as a pandemic causing yet another round of lockdowns. People are very interested about chess now and have n...

Hello All, We all know that TalkChess was not working for a few days. But, why did it fail? Was it "hacked"? Why the redirection to "Off-the-air"? What protocol is now in place to ensure that doesn't recur? Thanks in advance, -Steve- According to Quentin, unexpectedly high demand for chess-related ...

mwyoung wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 15, 2020 12:40 am

End of match.

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DESKTOP-CORSAIR, Blitz 5.0min+5.0sec  0

                                         
1   Stockfish 101120                +31  +35/=263/-8 54.41%  166.5/306
2   Dragon by Komodo Chess 64-bit   -31  +8/=263/-35 45.59%  139.5/306

Nice match.

I am looking for comments from anyone with a new Ryzen 5000 series CPU. I would like to buy one. It seems most places are out of stock. Thanks.

North America
United States
*AMD - Sold Out

yurikvelo wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 13, 2020 11:22 pm

Leo wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 13, 2020 4:46 pm

I dont remeber people saying NNs on CPUs was going to happen.

maybe they were talking about MCTS, not about static evaluation
GPU run MCTS, CPU NN run alpha-beta minimax, but static evaluation is not handcrafted

OK. Interesting.

brianr wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 13, 2020 6:46 pm

There are many different NN sizes and architectures.

The larger ones like Lc0 uses are only really practical on GPUs.

The smaller ones like SF-NNUE run on CPUs (and are very cleverly incrementally updated to make even faster).

Was it a mater of programing it to be clever?

I dont remeber people saying NNs on CPUs was going to happen. I dont know for sure. Does anyone have comments on NNs being used on CPUs ? It seems like its a big surprise. It seemed that only GPUs could do that. FYI I am an amateur hack on these questions. IMO Peter Osterlund's 2017 Texel/Giraffe e...