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The tests showed about +3 Elo. under strictly defined conditions, which must be the same for both engines . A key element of testing to achieve some meaningful results and information between two engines is to ensure both engines play the same opening with both colours. At least then if differing r...

The solution was copying and pasting the book from the folder for the first account into the folder for the second account. It seems to be working now. :) Thanks for posting your findings. Hopefully that will help anyone else experiencing the same issue. It makes sense because each log in account a...

Thank you for your reply. I have the file Hiarcs14bBook.hcs, but when I go to configure the engine, under "book status" it says "NO BOOK FOUND." The error message confirms the book is not in the engine's default book folder or the book name is incorrect or perhaps the book file'...

I am having a similar issue. No matter how I configure the engine, it always plays the Reti as white and Alekhine's defense against 1.e4 as black. I set the engine to play at 1800, and it fell into the same opening trap in Alekhine's defense four times in a row. I've tried setting the book mode to ...

There is an iPad version with details found here. http://dbrg.com/TuringsMachine.html Unfortunately I could not get it to replicate Peter's game moves. Regards Bryan Chessbase people had exactly the same problem when trying to reproduce moves from earlier references. Just picked up on this article ...

Hello PeterG, I would like to show you the whole sequence of perfect moves to get into this position and even to the checkmate. If you will analyse these moves with Stockfish 8 or Komodo, then you will see that Stockfish and Komodo absolutely have no understanding of this position. Their evalution ...

Chess engine are not able to solve these positions. These positions are draw. 8/6pp/1k2p3/p1p1P1P1/P1R2r1P/3P4/1P2P1K1/8 b - - 0 1 4k3/5p2/1p1p1P1p/1P1P1P1P/3P4/8/4K3/8 w - - 0 1 6kr/5b1p/2p3pP/rpPp1pP1/pP1PpP2/P3P3/1K6/8 w - - 0 1 k7/8/6p1/1p1p1pP1/1P1P1P2/1P1K4/3B4/8 w - - 0 1 4k3/2p5/8/1p1pPp1p/...

Hi Greg, Thanx for the link! I wished they published his programming code. We could save it as the very first chess program ever. Best regards, Paul Chessbase published and offered for download their version of the Turing engine back in 2006. It worked and may be of some use for youngsters learning...

Hiarcs and Shredder engines are able to solve many chess puzzles, even if tablebases are turned off. Look at this position: r7/8/8/5bk1/8/5B2/5RPP/6K1 b - - 0 1 It is very interesting position. Many engines like Komodo 11.2.1 and Stockfish 8 cannot solve this position at all. They shows massive adv...

In the 1980's and 1990's, the strength of the available dedicated chess computers fell within the range from beginner to FM with top end 1990's machines perhaps hitting the bottom end of IM strength. Consequently there were sufficient recorded games against players within these strength bands when t...

A good tournament result and it would seem to me a good time to make a commercial release of the tournament engine with perhaps a dangling of the carrot bonus of a subsequent update if the tournament engine is not exactly as Mark would wish it to be. Time is marching on and it is already five years ...

I hope so. The software is extremely user-friendly and I like everything else about it especially the benefit of having more than one database open at a time. Although it is not currently possible to permanently create a user book as a seperate item, the Opening "Source" can be selected t...

In Hiarcs Chess Explorer, is there any special setup for creating a tactics database such as the one that comes with the program? How does one hide the moves? If I imported another tactics database would it work automatically? Thanks in advance. You can use the menu option "View \ Hide next mo...

All I'm simply saying is the Komodo book isn't as strong as one might expect from an engine which (in some cases) is hundreds of elo above its rivals. Wasn't the consensus of opinion that Komodo should try and get out of established book lines as soon as possible to enable its superior knowledge to...

The battery is also a BR-2032 instead of a CR-2032- I assume they are the same. The BR-2032 is 0.2V lower nominal voltage than the CR2032. See ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CR2032_battery Also try and locate a battery with the necessary fittings for soldering into the board already attached. Hea...