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The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced it's quite a bit of a travesty that these new self-learning programs actually do not support live learning! I've recently run a match between the freeware Critter 1.6a, with its session file learning switched on, and the much-vaunted Fat Fritz, a co...

Ovyron wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:47 am

Heh, if I joined I wonder how long would it take me to be banned for complaining about how their tournaments are a joke because of the way their Tournament Directors run things, awarding free points to established players, being unfair to new players, and such

One way to find out.

I never had that kind of success with Critter learning. I will try again. Yes, some of us are interested in an engine that learns. Have you tried Brainlearn? I am slowly starting to think that LCZ may have plateaued.

Werewolf wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 11, 2019 7:59 pm

Surpassing Deep Blue's 200 Million nps.

But 22 years later...

I think Deep Blue used brute force so it needed a huge NPS to search. I dont think its pruning was good.

After training Brainlearn it has gone from an average of 3 or 4 losses and 6 or 7 draws in a 10 game tournament vs Brainfish to now winning its first 10 game match 1-0-9. I am convinced its learning.

BrainLearn 6.0 released: https://github.com/amchess/BrainLearn/releases/tag/6.0 The main novelties are -support for live chessdb -a new offline learning based on pattern recognition. It can be obtained via a private application. Without it, the behaviour is the same as the previous version. The det...

I wish they would make the championship longer than 12 games. How about 16? It use to be be 24. Agreed. They are at least moving back in that direction as the next championship will be contested over 14 games: https://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-updates-regulations-for-the-world-championship I would...

I recently bought a Ryzen 3 3300 desktop. I am amazed at the boot up time speed and the fact that it runs very cool. I cant hear the fan. Never overheats.

I wish they would make the championship longer than 12 games. How about 16? It use to be be 24.