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datavorous_

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About datavorous_

recreational programmer

datavorous.work@gmail.com

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  1. comment
    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…

  7. story
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