Komodo 10 released

[cma6]

Thanks, LK, I will experiment with that.

[whereagles]

The $99 is just about par for US standards. Trouble is, those are high standards

[abulmo]

I think some engine authors do use some winning probability, say 65% for 100cp. And it correlates well with the static value of the pawn in endgame for many.

Take kpk as an example. In kpk, there are 67,168% of winning positions (for the side with the pawn), so here we have an exact relationship between one pawn and a winning probability. But... each kpk position is or an exact draw or an exact win not a probable win at 67.168%. A good evaluation should give a value of 0 or +mate (In practice a more moderate value, with some tricks to allow progress) not a +100 cp to a kpk position.

[schack]

Larry et al - is the engine available from Chessbase the same as the one directly from you guys? (I know the Chessbase people tend to put some kind of copy protection on their versions.)

[lkaufman]

Larry et al - is the engine available from Chessbase the same as the one directly from you guys? (I know the Chessbase people tend to put some kind of copy protection on their versions.)

As of now, they are identical except for copy protection differences and some GUI set options; for example we make 1 thread the default, CB tries to guess how many cores you have, often reporting 8 instead of 4 and using 8 when 4 is a better choice. If we offer any free bug-fix upgrades CB has the option to offer them too. CB will probably not offer unfree upgrades (10.1,10.2 etc).

[Ozymandias]

CB will probably not offer unfree upgrades (10.1,10.2 etc).

You don't know? Isn't that in the contract?

[lkaufman]

CB will probably not offer unfree upgrades (10.1,10.2 etc).

You don't know? Isn't that in the contract?

The contract only gives them upgrades for a short time, but we can always agree to give them upgrades after that date on request.

[rabbits23]

Agreed. I've got Komodo 9.42 and paid just over $100 for it. I've enjoyed
experimenting with it enormously and don't begrudge the programmers a cent
of their money.
Allan

[yanquis1972]

whats a moderate adjustment to 'reduction' look like? (for multiple cores, so presumably negative value --) 1, 10, 50?

[lkaufman]

whats a moderate adjustment to 'reduction' look like? (for multiple cores, so presumably negative value --) 1, 10, 50?

I would call 10 or -10 a moderate adjustment