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I could not retrieve the final score. Think we need Ed for this. But anyway this was an interesting game. And between move 25-30 Plus was even in the plus. Not sure the position was winning.


You don't need an 8P EGDB or more to solve the final position, Ares with 7P sees in 11 seconds that 66 ...

What happened in the last game of round five Flits vs Plus 500? The final position is obviously a draw, did Plus 500 lose on time?

I am running Codex locally but I did not expect it to search my entire drive if needed:


It's also searching your harddrive if not needed. All these 'Big Tech' companies are spying on you, this is something you have to live with. I've blocked most of the URL's in my firewall where telemetry is ...

Good point, currently 'go ponder' behaves as 'go analyze'. Perhaps we can have a quick show of hands here: do all engines support 'go analyze', so when browsing a game the GUI continuously sends 'go analyze'? 'go ponder' should work as Harm/UCI mentions?
GW


Normally with UCI (when pondering is ...

Krzysztof Grzelak wrote: Wed May 27, 2026 12:46 The website is not working.

Gijsbert means: https://github.com/gwiesenekker/GWDGUI

BTW, I sent you an email about the PC, one thing you could try.

I don't expect a program like Dragon to make such an error with a 8p DB, and 32 core search process.
So I though or the computer had a problem, or Dragon has a bug.
Not impossible that Michel was not able to test 32-cores, so the program still has an issue with this number.



Ares agrees that ...

I have to wait a few days. Then I will know everything. I never overclock either the processor or RAM. The worst thing is that now it is difficult to buy new RAM. I have 8 sticks of 16 GB RAM.

Krzysztof


I don't mean explicit overclocking, but if by any chance EXPO is enabled in the BIOS it ...

The next round was to take place tomorrow. I must apologize to everyone interested in the tournament, but due to a computer failure, the tournament will be canceled after the fault is removed. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. I will inform you about the start of the tournament on the ...

And what version of the program is it?


This is the movegenerator I made for v2.0.

Considering the low activity at this forum I have my doubts if it's worthwhile to finish v2.0, on the other hand I already put a lot of time into this project, so it's probably better to try finishing it.

I have ...

After many months not touching Draughts I tried to improve the move-generator somewhat more. At the starting position it got slower, on the other positions it got faster.

This is the first time the second position (the one with kings) surpasses 1 billion moves sec. on just a single core.


b b b ...

Currently I'm busy with other things, but when I have some time to spare I can make a version that solely uses AVX2 (that will run on your PC's). The new version is at most 4 Elo points better than the one you have, so i'ts not very important at all.

Krzysztof,

The 1.91 version I sent you 8 months ago uses a slightly different option for the hash-table:

threads = 32
tt-size = 32
bucket-shift = 2
book = on
ponder = on
egdb = on

So 'bucket-shift = 2' instead of 'bucket-size = 4'.

I have newer versions but they use AVX-512 and PEXT throughout ...

Hi Sidiki,

Somebody told me you have to look at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Vx-uFNddk&t=201s

It's a description about configuring and using the software for the DGT checkers-board.

To me it seems all a bit archaic, it needs Java too, I hope you can get it to work.

Joost

This is the result of the laptop with AMD AI-9-HX370 12 core processor which has a base-clock of 2 GHz. and a boost-clock of 5.1 GHz.


Ares-AI-v2.x welcomes you!

initializing:
zobrist numbers: 1C0C5121 ok
magic tables: 1D990E8A ok

b b b b b
b b b b b
b b b b b
b b b b b ...

There are rumors that the ZEN 6 will have a boost clock above 6 GHz, so also this record will not be for eternity.


I agree, in the future there will still be some improvement in clock-speed and the size of processor caches. Maybe (when I'm lucky) AMD will retain the current processor-socket for ...