I'll wait until Google's Deep Mind Alpha Zero is available.
Lc0 is stronger than A0
Not even close. Lela had about twice as many wins as Stockfish at the most recent computer championship. Alpha Zero won many times the games that Stockfish did in their heads up matchup (despite a very high draw rate).
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Why no love for Houdini 6 Pro? Is it that useless for analysis and preparation for human play?
I'll wait until Google's Deep Mind Alpha Zero is available.
Lc0 is stronger than A0
Not even close. Lela had about twice as many wins as Stockfish at the most recent computer championship. Alpha Zero won many times the games that Stockfish did in their heads up matchup (despite a very high draw rate).
Do you know the hardware specifications between A0 and SF8?
Do you know the strength of engine is determined by the power of hardware.
Do you know Stockfish running on home 4 cores PC can be easily crushed by the same Stockfish running on 40 cores PC. ( just e.g).
Stockfish 10 is still the strongest of the "regular engines". Lc0 only makes sense when you invest in a higher-quality graphics card, only then it can show its great strength. I tested Komodo 13 and Komodo 13 MC against Stockfsh in 30 games at tournament level (2h/40m), and Stockfish didn't lose a single game.
For one reason or another, Lc0 uses the graphics card for calculations. I didn't believe it at first either, but the guys who are really into this "self-learning" engine actually buy graphics cards you would normally use for a hi-def ego shooter. There's a version that works without a dedicated graphics interface (my PC only has an on-board Intel chip), but I tried this and it cannot win against e.g. Komodo, no matter how much processor power you have.
You previous two posters do realize that graphic cards do what they do by having powerful floating point operations processors in them, right? Well...those GPUs are also good for AI/neural network operations/calculations. In fact, the processors on the graphics cards, transistor for transistor, are better suited to the task than the processors on the motherboard.
I guess some people might think that "graphics card" means that the cards' resources are somehow limited to graphics only, but those resources are available to any software that can can communicate with the card via a driver.
Stockfish 10 is still the strongest of the "regular engines". Lc0 only makes sense when you invest in a higher-quality graphics card, only then it can show its great strength. I tested Komodo 13 and Komodo 13 MC against Stockfsh in 30 games at tournament level (2h/40m), and Stockfish didn't lose a single game.
Most AI applications (including LC0) use the GPU processing power for their computational needs.
Stockfish 10 is still the strongest of the "regular engines". Lc0 only makes sense when you invest in a higher-quality graphics card, only then it can show its great strength. I tested Komodo 13 and Komodo 13 MC against Stockfsh in 30 games at tournament level (2h/40m), and Stockfish didn't lose a single game.
Because Neural networks requires multiple parallel calculations( programmers use matrix calculations to simulate NN connections), GPU are excel at matrix calculations.
, CPU are good in liner algebric calculations( long sequense of input and output).
Of course Leela can run in CPU but x50 times slower and it cost approximately -200 to -300 elo weaker.
I have Lucas chess and Arena..I have say Lucas for me is more appeal then Arena, is simple and u can easily compare 2 engines with kibitzers. I use Stockfish 10 and Komodo 9.02.
Which engines do you prefer , Komodo, Stockfish or Houdini ?
What about Fritz or Rybka?
I guess to me it would be a question of what happens in games against each other.
Which engines do you prefer , Komodo, Stockfish or Houdini ?
What about Fritz or Rybka?
I guess to me it would be a question of what happens in games against each other.
You can install in your computer or watch computer chess games.
Stockfish will crush Fritz like 80-20 and Rybka like 90-10 in a 100 games match( Cos they are not even top 10 engines).
In this games, SF beat Komodo 7-1, and Houdini 4-2.
I use whichever engine is the fastest on my machine. Currently it's Stockfish_10_64_bmi2
Which engines do you prefer , Komodo, Stockfish or Houdini ?
What about Fritz or Rybka?
I guess to me it would be a question of what happens in games against each other.
You can install in your computer or watch computer chess games.
Stockfish will crush Fritz like 80-20 and Rybka like 90-10 in a 100 games match( Cos they are not even top 10 engines).
In this games, SF beat Komodo 7-1, and Houdini 4-2.
But lost to my girl LEELA
No, Leela is currently no 3. SF beat Leela 4.5 - 3.5.
SF lose to Leelenstein- 3-5
SF drew to Leela Dev T60. 3-3
In fact all these 3 leela derivatives and SF are in very close strength. < 10 games is very small sample size, we probably need minimum 500 games to see the difference in strength.
SugaR NN 1.1, a variant of Stockfish 10, is currently the highest rated engine.
Because CCRL use Stockfish 10, which is 1 year old Stockfish. Sugar is released approx in April 2019.
If CCRL use latest Stockfish 11 developmental version(+50 elo stronger now), I am pretty sure that SF 11 will be better than sugar.
https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest/wiki/Regression-Tests
Love to go Stockfishing 
Using Komodo 11.2.2 I can turn the engine strength down to 1250 strength in Handicap and Fun" mode in Fritz 12. Gives me a chance.
Using Komodo 11.2.2 I can turn the engine strength down to 1250 strength in Handicap and Fun" mode in Fritz 12. Gives me a chance.
You can easily turn down the playing strength in almost any UCI engine, Stockfish included. The latter has 20 "skill levels".
Has anyone notice though that when you turn down the level that it will play “weird” chess by making a random move that serves no purpose and which a human would not play?
It is ususal to most programs.
Programmers has to intentionally add random bad moves to make it weaker. Or they just limit search depth or search nodes to make it weaker.
I'll wait until Google's Deep Mind Alpha Zero is available.
Lc0 is stronger than A0