no, but they bought Komodo MC
Did Chess.com Buy LCO?
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Oct 18, 2018
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it's not advertising really. they host CCC, so that is why all this "propaganda" exists.
Oct 18, 2018
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maybe because LCO played very good games that are up for analysis. and LCO was the underdog
Oct 18, 2018
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I guess but there were other engines that did well for their rating...
No one can buy community driven open source GPL 3.0 project.
Leela is free and open source, same as stockfish.
P.S. I am proud to be one of contributor( GPU donator) to that awesome project. I was CPU contributor( pool worker) to fishtest before(stockfish).
Oct 18, 2018
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Ah ok thanks for the explanation. I hope they also give other engines some fair share of publicity.
Oct 18, 2018
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ah I see. Sorry of my misjudgment. Well its not anyone its the site owners themselves who perform this tyranny.
Oct 18, 2018
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LC0 is different of course, so it's exciting to hear news of it doing well. It's not an alpha beta serach thing like Stockfish et al. Potentially Leela will be as good (even better than) alpha zero.
If you are interested in computer chess engine tournment, there will be epic battle in TCEC cup in tomorrow between current No 1. (Stockfish )vs No 4 (Leela). It is actually the battle between the reigning champion vs the rising star.
Prediction, as Stockfish is around 50-100 elo stronger than Leela , the winning chance for stockfish would be 80% and 20% for Leela.
There will be 1000+ viewers and you will definately see the epic talk/fight between Stockfish developers/ fans vs Leela developers/fans .
Oct 18, 2018
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drmrboss wrote:
No one can buy community driven open source GPL 3.0 project.
Leela is free and open source, same as stockfish.
P.S. I am proud to be one of contributor( GPU donator) to that awesome project. I was CPU contributor( pool worker) to fishtest before(stockfish).
nice. always wondered why you always wrote about it.
They're not advertising for Lc0, they're leveraging interest in Lc0 to get people to come to the site (to read the articles and watch the videos and receive ad impressions.) People are interested in the program that teaches itself to play and has a very different style.
IMRonilm1204 wrote:
no, but they bought Komodo MC
If they're going to go with a Don Dailey / Larry Kaufman creation, they really should go with RexChess 2.3!
autobunny wrote:
drmrboss wrote:
No one can buy community driven open source GPL 3.0 project.
Leela is free and open source, same as stockfish.
P.S. I am proud to be one of contributor( GPU donator) to that awesome project. I was CPU contributor( pool worker) to fishtest before(stockfish).
nice. always wondered why you always wrote about it.
Promoting/ spamming for Lco, as I am Lco fan. If anyone is interested in Lco, they can ask me. I am making Lco community bigger and stronger.
Oct 18, 2018
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drmrboss wrote:
autobunny wrote:
drmrboss wrote:
No one can buy community driven open source GPL 3.0 project.
Leela is free and open source, same as stockfish.
P.S. I am proud to be one of contributor( GPU donator) to that awesome project. I was CPU contributor( pool worker) to fishtest before(stockfish).
nice. always wondered why you always wrote about it.
Promoting/ spamming for Lco, as I am Lco fan. If anyone is interested in Lco, they can ask me. I am making Lco community bigger and stronger.
just to clarify, i honestly meant that as a compliment.
Oct 18, 2018
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Ahptoemiz wrote:
IMRonilm1204 wrote:
no, but they bought Komodo MC
If they're going to go with a Don Dailey / Larry Kaufman creation, they really should go with RexChess 2.3!
RexChess still runs just fine in DosBox! 
EscherehcsE wrote:
Ahptoemiz wrote:
IMRonilm1204 wrote:
no, but they bought Komodo MC
If they're going to go with a Don Dailey / Larry Kaufman creation, they really should go with RexChess 2.3!
RexChess still runs just fine in DosBox!
Yep, I've run it there.
Fun to run those old programs like Rex, Genius, Rebel...
Will all this propaganda going around one can only guess.
https://www.chess.com/video/player/lc0-vs-stockfish-learning-endgames-from-engines
https://www.chess.com/news/view/machine-learning-lc0-joins-big-3-engines-atop-computer-chess-championship-half
https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-houdini-to-battle-for-computer-chess-championship-komodo-vs-lc0-for-3rd