Did Chess.com Buy LCO?

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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

 

 

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I know but the way they advertise though...

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Ah I see, but why so specific on LCO?

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I guess but there were other engines that did well for their rating...

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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).

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Ah ok thanks for the explanation. I hope they also give other engines some fair share of publicity.

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Boi. Make your own thread for that.

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ah I see. Sorry of my misjudgment. Well its not anyone its the site owners themselves who perform this tyranny.

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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.

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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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!

 

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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.

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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.

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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! grin.png

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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...

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I tried playing the old star wars chess from 1993.

The program moves fast enough, but the animations take forever. After 30 minutes of playing quickly the game had gone about 15 moves so I stopped.

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stiggling wrote:

I tried playing the old star wars chess from 1993.

The program moves fast enough, but the animations take forever. After 30 minutes of playing quickly the game had gone about 15 moves so I stopped.

Don't remember that one, but National Lampoon's Chess Maniac 5 Billion and 1 was a hoot.

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lol