When I decided to merge computer vision and engine lines, it opened up a function I never anticipated…
Chess as spectator sport! Similar to how viewers can see the cards at poker events #chess #chesswave
I'm trying to figure out if the engine in that board is open source...appears not.
Those are old school Kasparov pieces. The box is in good shape 👍
Testing this in the laundry room. Working as expected.
I’m looking for Android beta testers soon #chess
I wonder if they also installed gold toilets in the White House.
It’s pretty easy to build up a music collection. I ripped around 1000 of my old CD’s to FLAC. Then my kids grew up and insisted on Spotify 🤷♂️
That’s the old version. There’s a recent Broadway musical about them.
Start menu nearly complete.
Midnight is around 3400 strength — also have easier engines. #chess
App running in a Chromebook with 2.6 GB free memory. The 3d graphics are automatically disabled, but analysis features are fully functional in 2d. Godot compatibility mode works nicely as a fallback #godot #chess
An average gaming desktop can often reach depth 30 in a second or two. Renting comparable hardware in the cloud is much more expensive, especially if you want GPU-backed analysis.
More on this soon #chess #analysis
Is that Blender?
Someone needs to pull the plug
Some of the AI's are really helpful with C++. Using GPT codex a lot for help with it.
Games against Leela always seem to go this way...three stacked pawns, and the king hopelessly stuck in the middle. It will be over soon #chess
The British Museum image shows a painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet. They are seated on low stools, facing each other, across a low table on which a board game with black playing pieces is laid out. It is probably the popular ancient Egyptian board game senet. The gazelle sits on the left of the table facing the lion on the right. The animals are seated on their haunches, sitting upright, legs hanging down from the chair seat, and their forelegs raised, being used as arms. Each animal holds a game piece with their hoof and paw respectively. The gazelle is painted brown within a black outline. It has black hooves, two long, black, s-shaped curved horns, and a black dot for its eye. It has long pointed ears at the back of its head. The lion is painted a sandy brown within a black outline. It has a darker-brown shaggy mane and a black nose and eye. It’s mouth is ajar as if speaking. Detail from an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus from Deir el-Medina
A 3,200 year-old painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet.
From an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus showing animals taking on human roles in comic situations where they act against their natural instincts.
📷 British Museum
#Archaeology
A proof is either correct or not. Most likely this just raises the difficulty of what's remaining. "Oh, you don't understand my proof of ABC? Too bad for you"
Sophie Germaine primes => safe primes. Very relevant in cryptography.
Ramanujan died 100 years ago. Ahead of his time, but essentially a historical figure now. There was a pretty nice reference to him in Good Will Hunting. The Langlands programme has been consuming a lot of mathematical energy the last few years...
Practicing against different opening books. Perfect2021 just opened up with the London System. #chess
delete from blunders where rating < 2000
It's a bit extreme to play 5 random blunders then unleash Stockfish. I'm experimenting with a nemesis bot that mimics personal style...feels very odd as an opponent.
What was the name of that opening again? Oh right — the Falkbeer Countergambit.
Very nineteenth century.
#chess #chesswave #ai #computervision #android
Searching that far ahead is a serious algorithmic challenge, since the number of possible board states grows exponentially.
Algorithmic efficiency is the most important part of engine search, followed by hardware quality and parallelizing the search effectively. /2
I was talking to a grandmaster recently, and he caught my attention when he suggested that engines do not start giving really good advice until around depth 30 — roughly 15 moves for White and 15 for Black. /1
Leela + Magnus Carlson opening book => it's going to be a difficult game... #chess
Optimizing GdScript…all SVg’s resized to 128x128, textures reduced to a reasonable size, images compressed on import, duplicates removed from scene tree. Check performance on 3gb phone, continue… #gdscript #godot
In addition to helping break the Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing also designed the first chess program—Turochamp.
I’ve been playing a modern implementation tonight… and it’s surprisingly fun. #chess
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That's a tough algorithm without it...some message passing no doubt
