How to import the weekly twic[ref]TWIC: The Week in Chess[/ref] PGN[ref]PGN: Portable Game Notation[/ref] to Scid vs. PC firstly manually then by PowerShell script in Windows 10? [toc label= »Twic to Scid : table of contents »] 1. Import manually the twic PGN to Scid First of all, Mark Crowther compiles weekly chess games from the week’s […]
How to code the Von Koch’s snowflake curve in the Scratch language? The file extension .sb does not mean Saint-Brieuc but Scratch((Scratch manuel de référence, guide vers une informatique créative)) binary in its third version((En avant vers Scratch 3.0, Académie d’Aix-Marseille, Prim à bord Eduscol)) released on January 2, 2019. Scratch((Download the off-line free version […]
Alphabeta-based STOCKFISH becomes the new Grand Champion of the TCEC superfinal season 16 against Alpha zero-Leela chess zero compatible neural network-based Allie+Stein. The fourteen victories of STOCKFISH against AllieStein Mov C Gam ECO 14 Wins in #Mov by Stockfish 19092522 in #Gam game 034 W 026 E16l Queen’s Indian: Capablanca, Riumin, 7.Nc3 O-O; 1.d4 Nf6 […]
On May 28, 2019, Leela chess zero (LC0: 3589 ELO) became the Grand Champion of the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) superfinal 15 against Stockfish (SF: 3587 ELO) on the score of 14 victories versus 8 in the marathon 100-game match with the time control of 120′+10″. St-Brieuc chess club provides the annotated Scid vs […]
Special markups « [%csl Re5] » or « [%cal Gf3e5] » in PGN comments render colored square or arrow in particular in ChessBase PGN. « [%csl Ye1,Gb1,Gc1] » or « [%cal Ga5e5, Ga5e1] » give a list of squares or arrows. Scid vs PC uses respectively « [%draw full,e5,red] » and « [%draw arrow,f3,e5,green] ». The purpose of pgnCb2Scid.ps1 is to convert the highlighted squares and colored […]
On February 23, 2019, Stockfish (SF: 3418 ELO) version 10 became the Grand Champion of the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) superfinal 14 against Leela chess zero (LC0: 3437 ELO) on the score of 10 victories versus 9 in the marathon 100-game match with the time control of 120 minutes + 15 seconds added per […]
The draw distance in the minimum number of moves in a 1/2-1/2 chess game where StockFish evaluates the position with the « +0.00 » score for the very first time. Chess engines such as StockFish vs Leela chess draw games with a rate of 80%. Sorting these draw games according to the draw distance could help the […]
In order that Scid vs PC generates the Scid database of TCEC 2019 superfinal 14 STOCKFISH vs Leela Chess zero, let us introduce the PGN parser in PowerShell language for Windows 10. The 5 MB of the TCEC PGN of the Superfinal 14 could be downloaded from the legacy TCEC on Chessdom: « Season 14 – […]
In the years 2010-2013, Microsoft Research powered the ConvertFrom-String cmdlet with FlashExtract inductive synthesis programmed by the end-user’s examples. Sir Jourdain: `Yes, prose. Everything is prose that is not verse; and everything that’s not verse is prose.’ The Middle Class Gentleman (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme) by Moliere PROSE stands for Program Synthesis using Examples.Read the overwiew […]