German podcast with author of PlentyChess

[pohl4711]

If you speak german, or using subtitles (?), this could be interesting. I contacted TheBigGreek (biggest german chess youtuber) and Patrick Leonhardt (PlentyChess) and they made a long podcast about enginechess: 2 IMs and Patrick Leonhardt, 58 minutes runtime.

[Peter Berger]

If you have the time and know German, this may be a pretty interesting interview to watch IMHO. Patrick is very clear and nice when it is about answering lay questions, and judging from the answers I know or can guess myself he tries to give an honest insight in his work.

I would have wished for different questions at times, but the interviewers did a pretty decent job, too.

The two questions and answers that felt interesting to myself in my own words and with my limitted understanding:

1. So: what's the very point of Plentychess' existance?

Stockfish uses Leela data to train, same as other engines. I try to narrow the gap between the engines that do and those who don't by improving the training for Plentychess that doesn't use Leela data.

2. Are there any advantages of being a single author?

There are times when there are ideas that should obviously be a clear improvement. I can implement something like this quickly, while seeing it implemented in Stockfish will take way longer.


Other than that, I didn't hear too many new things, did you?

Peter

[pohl4711]

If you have the time and know German, this may be a pretty interesting interview to watch IMHO. Patrick is very clear and nice when it is about answering lay questions, and judging from the answers I know or can guess myself he tries to give an honest insight in his work.

I would have wished for different questions at times, but the interviewers did a pretty decent job, too.

The two questions and answers that felt interesting to myself in my own words and with my limitted understanding:

1. So: what's the very point of Plentychess' existance?

Stockfish uses Leela data to train, same as other engines. I try to narrow the gap between the engines that do and those who don't by improving the training for Plentychess that doesn't use Leela data.

2. Are there any advantages of being a single author?

There are times when there are ideas that should obviously be a clear improvement. I can implement something like this quickly, while seeing it implemented in Stockfish will take way longer.


Other than that, I didn't hear too many new things, did you?

Peter

Of course, the video was made for chess players and chess enthusiasts, because it is the audience of the TheBigGreek Youtube-channel. It is clear, that computerchess-fans will not find many news here.