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Post by matejst on May 26, 2022 20:55:56 GMT
Ipman made a compile of the new dev version of Berserk, with a bigger net. Seems to be very strong, and Jay managed to make a comfortable engine.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 30, 2022 20:56:27 GMT
I see you're quite the engine collector. Reminds me of myself, 15 years ago, no, more like 16, when I would try virtually anything. Of course, there was also a time when I actually enjoyed re-installing the OS. I did it every month, sometime more than once (I could write the windows password by memory). Now? Haven't made a single install this year, and I have 10 working computers.
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Post by matejst on May 31, 2022 8:58:35 GMT
I see you're quite the engine collector. Reminds me of myself, 15 years ago, no, more like 16, when I would try virtually anything. Of course, there was also a time when I actually enjoyed re-installing the OS. I did it every month, sometime more than once (I could write the windows password by memory). Now? Haven't made a single install this year, and I have 10 working computers. No, not really. In general, I would like to find a good, well done, engine with some "personality" and a minimum of functionality. I would have used SF, but I am repulsed by their "open source" hypocrisy -- after they pillaged Larry Kaufman's and Vaclav Rajlich's work. Eman or Shashchess would have been my first choice. At a certain point, Shashchess had an option of full width analysis up to a certain depth, so she was slow enough for me to be able to visualize, calculate the variations and understand them, but still, I can stop the analysis and do my checking, so... just like I wrote, it is mainly a question of "ideology".
I use mainly Rebel 15x2, but her search is buggy. I combine it with the Marvin/Benjamin net combo in openings, since this combination offers really human like chess, aggressive, combative, and both of these solutions have multi-PV.
The others are -- how to say it? -- they feel like unfinished projects. And with all the overblown open source BS we don't have a good engine with all the needed functionalities based, let's say, on a mixture of Leela data, human games and TBs.
In general, I don't like to change things that works. I also had a period when I was trying Linux OSes all the time, but not now.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 31, 2022 9:37:01 GMT
Oh yes, the Linux distro jungle. I lost myself around those parts at some point too. In the end, common problems proved ubiquitous and very annoying (drivers being #1).
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