Jumbo 0.5.27

[Sven]

I have released Jumbo 0.5.27. In my ultra-fast test games it has been stronger than the previous release 0.5.3 by about 40-50 Elo points.

This is not my most recent development version. I have also started to develop a parameter tuner based on the Texel tuning method (but with static eval instead of qsearch). So 0.6.x is still in the making.

[Graham Banks]

Thanks Sven. Heading to get it now.

[Adam Hair]

Are you serious ?
Really who cares anymore whether Komodo or any other Engine gets updated anymore unless they incorporate MCTC algorithm into it, instead of the now obsolete Alpha-Beta Search.

How can we argue against that sterling piece of reasoning


Hope that implementing the Texel method of tuning is fun, interesting, and fruitful for you.

[Sven]

Are you serious ?
Really who cares anymore whether Komodo or any other Engine gets updated anymore unless they incorporate MCTC algorithm into it, instead of the now obsolete Alpha-Beta Search.

How can we argue against that sterling piece of reasoning


Hope that implementing the Texel method of tuning is fun, interesting, and fruitful for you.

Thanks. I usually ignore obsolete BS posts like those saying that "Alpha-Beta is obsolete". I will most probably never reach the level of SF so why should I care about never reaching the level of AlphaZero?

[Daniel Anulliero]

Hi Sven !
Mr Anil V Dharan and me say Congratulations for your new release !
Does Jumbo always have alpha beta in his search ?
All the best
Dany