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Richard Pijl has launched a new version of The Baron. This fixes some Syzygy bug and generally tunes the engine. Richard estimate the improvement in strength is between 20 ELO and 50 ELO.

Find out more and download here:

http://www.chessprogramming.net/the-baron/

Steve

Hi Tom,

Welcome back! Looking forward to testing your new creation!

Steve

Brilliant work Erik! Playing with Particle Swarm algorithms, both for chess and professional use, is on my to-do list. I've known about them for a while, but found this video helpful: https://www.udemy.com/share/1000JUBUsccV4=/ Have you played with Population-Based-Incremental-Learning (PBIL) algori...

Perfect! Thanks Ted!

So I just set up LCZero for the first time (I know I'm late to the game). I have a laptop with a half-decent NVIDEA graphics card (GeForce GTX 1050 Ti), so I opted for the CUDU version (I've never used my graphics card in this way before). Once downloaded, setup was like any other UCI engine. It see...

I found it!

http://theweekinchess.com/assets/files/ ... chlive.pgn

Hey Ted - do you know of a live pgn link? I'd like to watch using HCE.

Steve

Great game - thanks for posting. White missed a mate in 17 at move 45 (Rg8+)

Steve

I'm pretty sure Mchess was 1992 and Genius 3 was 1994/5 - but worth checking. I recall a very memorable advert in Chess magazine in 1992 (ish) which advertised MChess and then said: "There's only one thing stronger than MChess, and that's The Chess Machine - now 32 MHz!" Unfortunately I could not a...

Here's my recollection of the best PC engines:

1989 Rex 2.3
1990 M-Chess 1.0
1993 Genius 3.0
1997 HIARCS / Rebel
2000 Tiger
2001 Shredder
2005 Fruit 2.3
2006 Rybka
2009 Stockfish

Steve