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Comment #47015860
zero games were thrown away for castling, because i forced stockfish not to castle (and not to play en passant/promotion) by filtering legal moves and only giving those filtered mo…
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Comment #47015722
Thanks for pointing it out! I will try to patch it. Appreciate you taking the time to test it.
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Comment #47015302
Oh well, the file initially looked like https://github.com/datavorous/sameshi/blob/7ab4e47144f96becd... It is hideous now!
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Comment #47015043
none. scribbling long enough on a piece of paper is more enjoyable than prompting.
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Comment #47014979
maybe for very low ratings it's plausible? 1 elo per byte might happen in a tiny range but at a useful strength it would break fast, that's what i think
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Comment #47014881
i forced stockfish to play only non castling, non en passant, non promotion moves by filtering legal moves and passing only those as root_moves also removed castling/EP rights from…
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Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
I made a chess engine today, and made it fit within 2KB. I used a variant of MinMax called Negamax, with alpha beta pruning. For the board representation I have used a 120-cell "ma…
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Show HN: Spheni – A Vector Search Engine in C++ built from scratch, for Python
Hey HN, I've been building a small in-memory vector search library as a way to explore ANN systems from first principles. I was inspired by Spotify's annoy, and Meta's FAISS. Curre…