Ted Summers wrote:Thanks Don,

I am glad you are doing well.

I appreciate the encouragement. I'm only 57 years old but I am feeling like an old man and my partner is about 9 years older - so we are these 2 old farts trying to build the strongest chess program in the world.

The Komodo 5.1 MP release is now scheduled for June 17, after a delay from previous release date. Larry Kaufman was hospitalized for a time which delayed the release.

Don

Don,

Here is the web site aka the live chess ratings list. Were the all 2700+ players ratings are calculated as if fide were putting out a list daily.
Rating are calculated per game using the fide rating protocols.

http://www.2700chess.com/

I have to ask, what is the point of this? You are ...

If this is only noise, I wish my speakers were this loud :) I could run the rating pgn file myself to see the stats, but with over a +51 point rating spread it is kind of pointless. It would be an extreme argument to try and make that GM Carlsen is anything other then the best player by rating and ...

If this is only noise, I wish my speakers were this loud :) I could run the rating pgn file myself to see the stats, but with over a +51 point rating spread it is kind of pointless. It would be an extreme argument to try and make that GM Carlsen is anything other then the best player by rating and ...

If this is only noise, I wish my speakers were this loud :) I could run the rating pgn file myself to see the stats, but with over a +51 point rating spread it is kind of pointless. It would be an extreme argument to try and make that GM Carlsen is anything other then the best player by rating and ...

Don your not bursting my bubble, I agree 100%.

But if you are going to be extreme with the data, you not going to be able to say anything.

In the example of GM Carlsen, it is possible that any of the top 100 or more players is truly the strongest player, if you want to work only with extreme ...

You can use another chess engine as mentor as described in "Genetic Algorithms for Mentor-Assisted Evaluation Function Optimization".
Thanks for your help, but that was not what I was looking for.


I found a way to do this. First of all I adapted PBIL which is population based incremental ...

Dave Mitchell wrote:Welcome to the forum!

Don looks like he's struggling through a complex ending.

This picture was taken just before the one where I'm crying.

The CCRL 40/40 rating you are refering to is irrelevant : only 53 games yet for Houdini Tactical...

http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/rating_list_all.html


Name Rating Elo+ Elo- Score Average Opponent Draws Games
Houdini 3 Tactical 64-bit 3252 +70 −68 65.1% −98.0 50.9% 53
Houdini 3 64 ...