You could possibly make it an EXE with the help of NodeJS, although I have trouble running Node on Windows so it would be kinda useless anyway.

Yeah, we gotta have something that can run all that fantastic Mac chess software.

Seriously, this project is useless for chess and most likely won't succeed anyway.

Peter

Er, YouTube isn't exactly a scientific publication. I'd be more convinced if you linked to some kind of peer-reviewed journal or similar.


science, journals, they all have a paradigm-behaviour. they often think only within a certain range that is allowed to think.

youtube's thinking range is ...

Er, YouTube isn't exactly a scientific publication. I'd be more convinced if you linked to some kind of peer-reviewed journal or similar.

I'd go for reporting it as a bug, as that's definitely not desired behavior. Going for something like might work.

What the heck?

Wow, this is weird. Maybe this thread should be locked or deleted or something?

Peter

Uly wrote:>3) How easy will it be to re-implement any changes not included in next official Stockfish?

I don't know but my guess is that it'll be trivially easy.

It won't be particularly hard. I know from experience that adding GTB support is really easy and the other stuff shouldn't be difficult.

Peter

Jeremy Bernstein wrote:Or get OSX and enjoy the best of both worlds

lol.

Peter

Frankly I believe ProbeOnlyAtRoot should always be checked, except perhaps in analysis in certain endgames. Tablebases just aren't worth enough to compensate for the speed hit. Of course this all changes if you have your tablebases on an SSD.

Peter

Or, perhaps, for those with some small sense of ethics? Those that do not copy other's work without mentioning that fact. Those that do not copy code that is protected by legal licenses.

There is room for progress _and_ ethics. Computer chess developed pretty rapidly thru the 70's and 80's without ...