Chessprogramming wiki, @Gerd

[smatovic]

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May I suggest Ataxx?
https://vanheusden.com/games/ataxx/

Today everybody is into generative AI and NLP, I will give NLP a try, enough board games

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Srdja

[smatovic]

Point is, since May 2022 Gerd, the top quality and quantity contributor on CPW, is inactive (idk what happened) and it seems since March 2023 I am the only one who gives updates on the site. Usually I would say CPW has either to recruit new members (qualified and neutral) or to freeze the current state of CPW (cos chess is dead), but I do not even know who the admins resp. other members of CPW are and how to contact them....

I was invited by Gerd to CPW to work on the GPU article, I myself cover 4 articles from >4000, I am willing to update some of the most frequented articles as long I am involved in computer chess and read TalkChess, but I can not cover all aspects of computer chess on the wiki (seriously, idk where Gerd took the energy from).

@CPW-admins: either invite new members (qualified and neutral) or freeze CPW state (cos chess is dead).

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Srdja

...maybe GPT-6 will solve the CPW member issue

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Srdja

[JoAnnP38]

Point is, since May 2022 Gerd, the top quality and quantity contributor on CPW, is inactive (idk what happened) and it seems since March 2023 I am the only one who gives updates on the site. Usually I would say CPW has either to recruit new members (qualified and neutral) or to freeze the current state of CPW (cos chess is dead), but I do not even know who the admins resp. other members of CPW are and how to contact them....

I was invited by Gerd to CPW to work on the GPU article, I myself cover 4 articles from >4000, I am willing to update some of the most frequented articles as long I am involved in computer chess and read TalkChess, but I can not cover all aspects of computer chess on the wiki (seriously, idk where Gerd took the energy from).

@CPW-admins: either invite new members (qualified and neutral) or freeze CPW state (cos chess is dead).

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Srdja

On the engine programming discord, I see over and over where CPW is disparaged for being out-of-date or incorrect and the assumption is that no-one is updating it anymore and it should just be ignored if you are a new chess engine developer. I have found the site to be very helpful as long as you are willing to accept that it's not there to spoon feed someone how to develop an engine. But even I think that it needs to be updated in some areas. While chess may no longer be an area of active research for academics, it has morphed into a hobbyist activity that allows you to compete against others interested in the same hobby. I think CPW needs new blood for contributors that understand where computer chess is today. I don't believe that "chess is dead". Since the 1st of September that has been no fewer than 18 new versions of engines released on EP discord. It seems pretty active to me.

[syzygy]

On the engine programming discord

Is that a discord for SF cloners or for actual programmers?

Certainly CPW is not out of date as a source of information for real hobbyist programmers looking to create their own engine.

[smatovic]

Hmm, at least I am out of the loop of the current best practices, Lc0 Discord, SF Discord, OpenBench Discord, EP Discord, I do not follow these, hence I can not cover these via CPW, if people do not post anymore on TC, share ideas, if people do not publish papers, CPW looses its references, Zeitgeist or alike, what remains is the source code on GitHub.

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Srdja

[flok]

On the engine programming discord

Is that a discord for SF cloners or for actual programmers?

Certainly CPW is not out of date as a source of information for real hobbyist programmers looking to create their own engine.

Actual programmers

[flok]

On the engine programming discord

Is that a discord for SF cloners or for actual programmers?

Certainly CPW is not out of date as a source of information for real hobbyist programmers looking to create their own engine.

Actual programmers

https://discord.gg/32Fjky3vS6

[smatovic]

I saw that some of my publications on attosecond pulses are mentioned in my description on the chessprogramming wiki. Can you replace one of those by the paper for which the Nobel prize is now awarded? (But alas, not to me. ) That is reference 23 in the announcement:

23. P.M. Paul, E.S. Toma, P. Breger, G. Mullot, F. Augé, Ph. Balcou, H.G. Muller and P. Agostini, Science 292, 1689 (2001)

Attoseconds laser, graphene, petahertz transistor:

US team develops world’s fastest quantum switch to supercharge AI by 1 million times
https://interestingengineering.com/inno ... eakthrough

made me think of our HGM

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Srdja