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Ituloy ko lang yung isang thread in the past:
https://phcorner.org/threads/comput...and-everything-you-need-to-know-part1.723794/

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I started computerchess last 2004 and retired on 2014; been a part of chess engine development and testing 24/7. It's an expensive hobby for addicts like me he he due to keeping up with the hardware requirements and non-stop cpu usage. So just use it as needed. The best part is enjoying the rewards of winning or losing, especially in World competitions using hardware and software against the best in the world. Yet, this is still an addon to train the human brain to play chess better. A new generation of chess players already took advantage of this, including YOU if you try.

I'll just provide the basics that I missed in Part 1.

Computerchess needs an interface/GUI, a chess program/engine, and chess accessories. Examples of GUIs are given in Part 1 but the most common free software is Arena GUI: You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. . Chess engine on the other hand are divided in two most commonly used protocols, Winboard and UCI to communicate with the GUI. Utilities and accessories are GUI+chess engine related like engine protocol adapters, opening books, chess game databases (like pgn, scid...), endgame databases/tablebases/bitbases/generators, elo raters, tournament managers, book maker/converter/adapter...an endless line of options for the user either commercially available or free. Chessbase provides their propriety softwares like Chessbase, Fritz, etc...Others are Chess Assistant, Lokasoft's Chess Partner, ChessOK Aquarium....
Before starting on this hobby, it is a must to understand the basics on how we utilize available chess softwares related to this technology, or else find an AIO chess application to play online or offline.
Give time to visit, read, study, and be involved on these links.
This is just a continuation for those who already know about chess and wants to take advantage of learning more using available technology like the common desktop PC. I'll just add options for mobile devices upon request as I don't use them at present. Sorry!


- Computerchess Information links
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- join these official chess engine discussion forums
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-official chess engine rating list
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- for the latest Stockfish chess engine development and beta testing
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(Browse the chess information links to acquire the rest of the chess engines you like to use in your preferred Chess GUI.)

- for basic guides on GUI, utilities and sources
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(Aside from Arena, make sure you also have SCID and SCIDVSPC side by side for database game management and filtering, and be sure to know how to convert chess game formats back and forth - pgn to scid, scid-pgn....This also applies to opening books in polyglot (bin), Arena (abk) and othe GUI's. The guides are all in the link. Ask me is you encounter problems.)
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-for online chess activities
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For the 3 links above, I recommend using chessX as your best free online/offline tool; just need an account:
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You'll thank me later
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-for possible ebook sources, chess related information...(some link need you to create an account like lichess.org)
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- for chess game databases
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- ENDGAME TABLEBASES
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-commercial sources for other formats like chessbase,fritz, shredder, KOMODO....


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... I will update this later!
Enjoy!
 
UPDATES 4/7/2021:
Para kay @tolyakarpov et al. :
Grandmaster Repertoire Series
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Assorted Chess Collection
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Chess Opening Test Suites, opening books, pgn...including Gambit openings
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UPDATE for 4/12/2021
CHESGENIUS7 graphical user interface (GUI)
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Dito sa baba yung customized installer and portable version for PC with option to use your favorite WB/UCI engines with provided adapters and links. Just follow the instructions there. Medyo mabusisi pero subok ko na ito noon pa. Yung ibang links dyan ay patay na dahil last updated ito noong 2012 pa ng ka-miyembro ko sa isang forum noon. Subukan ninyong buksan yung ibang expired links sa archive.org in case buhay yung service nila. Naka-save yan sa kanilang database when I last checked. Pero yung downloads ng major files ay buhay. Tanong lang kayo kung may problema.

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Bonus!
Become a good chess player after 21 days daw he he! Ebooks + PGN for training. Kailangan mo lang ng pdf/pgn viewer. Not bad for a ~20mb package. Worth the time!
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Over 1500 Chess Books: magnet link only (~18GB)​

(Just choose which ones you need to DL in your torrent GUI to save on space.)​

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UPDATE 4/20/2021: Maia Chess
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This is just a repository of 9 final maia models (as of this period) saved as Leela Chess neural networks, from 1100 - 1900 elo. It's good for training and benchmarking level of chess knowledge for beginners to average players. You'll need LC0 to play with it in android or PC. Just follow the instructions here.
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From the github link, you can create your own training network using your own games, creating a training data similar to yourself! Look into the "Move Prediction" instruction. Links are provided there.
You'll need the trainingdata-tool - tool to generate You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. training data. Its useful for You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. from PGN games, different from the normal unsupervised learning and training data of LC0 that you use from 3rd party sources. This is just an extra feature for computerchess literate users/enthusiasts, familiar with LC0. I can't compile the trainingdata-tool at the moment since my MingW version is not compatible with the Boost libraries needed in the code. I just got one from #forbidden#. Feel free to try on Windows platform.
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Make sure your pgn is fully commented with evaluation scores, etc. like the ones on lichess. Please read the hints here, if it may help: You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.. You need to be familiar with using pgn-extract, chess artist, uci analyzer to keep up with this work.

(Sorry po kung ma-nosebleed kayo sa paggamit nito he he! Sulit naman kung makuha ninyo. If not, just use LC0 the normal way.)
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There are others using python+dependencies but one best option without using LC0 is using any NNUE chess engine to acquire a supervised training data using your custom pgn games with this one:
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Generally, its for Stockfish NNUE versions. I haven't tried it on other NNUE engines. If you're interested, pls read discussions about it here:
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I hope you get the idea. Thanks.
 
You're welcome. 'Musta rin Ma'am Sophie! Mahilig ka rin ng computerchess? Tagal mo rin nawala klasmeyt, panahon pa ni xxjaguarxx at ni KAPITAN ng UDPTeam he he...nice to be back!

OK naman ako, tuloy lang ang research para stable ang utak at kung ano pang maisipan.
Nilagay ko lang itong thread pang-maintain ng "established" status sa forum.
Para sa mga may alam sa computerchess lang naman ito't mahirap i-spoonfeed sa baguhan. Yung last post ko, baka ilan lang yung makahabol, pero baka makuha ko sa examples kung sakali. Bihira naman yung may interes dyan. Nakahiligan ko lang yung AI lately, kasama na yung games at iba pang branches niya. Nawalay na kasi ako sa free net applications since mura naman at mabilis na yung monthly net ngayon, at the same price. Sa PM na lang ako nagbibigay ng tips doon sa magtanong sa'kin.

See your around!
 
TOP Chess engines as of this date as formally tested by CCRL (PC/Windows engines lang po.):

Dragon 2.6.1 (Windows/Linux/MacOS)
Base64 link below (zippyshare yan): Get it while it's still alive he he.
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(Sa mga clones nyan, google nyo na lang yung pangalan, madali nang kunin din. Pili lang yung SF clones na ginagamit sa CCRL kaya hanap kayo ng ibang CE Rating sites/sources. Nagsama lang ako ng 2 na mahirap kunin like FF2 and D261 para sa collectors.)
Bisitahin nyo na lang yung computer-chess.org at chessprogramming.org for other CE details at CCRL chess Engine Rating lists sa rankings.
 
alist1986 said:
Shredder Chess Tutor step 1, 2, and 3:
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Buti naman at may chess forum pa tayo dito tungkol sa chess.
Hindi na rin ako masyadong nakakapagtest ng engine,itong Lc0 engine lang ang updated ako...dahil nawalan ako ng work sa manila dahil sa covid19.

Itong work ko now,ang haba ng oras ko,provincialnrate pa sahod🥴

Naghukay ako ng mga lumang chess program sa ms-dos computer at nakakuha ako ng msdos na hiarcs,tiger at fritz.
Pinagana ko gamit ang dosbox emulator sa android.

May nakita akong chess engine...ang name ay grandmaster chess..may kakayahan siyang matutunan ang kanyang pagkakamali,similar sa neutral network engine now..nagulat ako na may nakaisip na pala ng ganitong program noong 90's era.
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Makikita dito sa settings nya na may learning capcity itong chess grandmaster chess na ito,di ko pa masyadong nate_test dahil sa work ko,hays..🙄
 
tolyakarpov said:
Buti naman at may chess forum pa tayo dito tungkol sa chess.
Hindi na rin ako masyadong nakakapagtest ng engine,itong Lc0 engine lang ang updated ako...dahil nawalan ako ng work sa manila dahil sa covid19.

Itong work ko now,ang haba ng oras ko,provincialnrate pa sahod🥴

Naghukay ako ng mga lumang chess program sa ms-dos computer at nakakuha ako ng msdos na hiarcs,tiger at fritz.
Pinagana ko gamit ang dosbox emulator sa android.

May nakita akong chess engine...ang name ay grandmaster chess..may kakayahan siyang matutunan ang kanyang pagkakamali,similar sa neutral network engine now..nagulat ako na may nakaisip na pala ng ganitong program noong 90's era.
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Makikita dito sa settings nya na may learning capcity itong chess grandmaster chess na ito,di ko pa masyadong nate_test dahil sa work ko,hays..🙄
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Ako, 2014 pa retired. Halos walang epekto yang COVID sa'kin except sa pagsuot ng face mask + mapilitang sumunod kung anong protocol sa bawat lugar na puntahan ko he he. 'Eto nga't nakauwi na rin pagkatapos mag-alaga sa nanay ko ng +2 months sa Quezon from sudden vascular dementia. Doble gastos at pagod.

Tama ka. Yan yung isa sa mga unang attempts ng some form of neural AI na preferred noon ng Capstone. Yang grandmaster chess ay licensed to Intracore/Capstone software na designed for IBM PC. Ang gamit nyan ay yung modified Zarkov 2.5 engine ni pareng John Stanback. (Siya yung gumawa ng SCP chess engine na naging GNU Chess, tapos iniwan niya at gumawa ng Zarkov chess engines hanggang naging Wasp engine ngayon.). Siya rin yung gumawa ng simple interface ng GC to play with, and Intracore added the cosmetics and sounds, etc. for commercial distribution by Capstone. Yung special feature na yan ay gumagamit ng limited form of "learning from mistakes" using "persistent hash table" para di na maulit. Parte yan noong Zarkov 2.5 engine's "selective search" improvement noon. Ang kuwento nyan, isang taon lang siyang binayaran ng royalties (dahil di mabenta yung laro) kaya bumalik na lang siya sa Zarkov development he he. Kalaunan, naging abandoneware na.

Pre, meron malaking megapack ng DOS games (engines, etc.) na ni-link ko noon. Gawa ni pareng Franz Huber. Kasama lahat siguro ng binanggit mo. Mahilig kasi yon sa luma at ancient chess.
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Dardabs21 said:
ayun, sa mga mahilig maglaru ng chess tulad ko na sa sobrang bz ng work di na nkapaglaru ng ilang taon. maraming salamat master
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Add mo ako sa chess.com..
tolyakarpov name ko din doon.
Pwede kang maglaro ng corrrespondence..ako may laban nga eh..every two days ang per move😁..inaabot ng 3 months bago matapos eh,maganda eto sa mga sobrang busy,basta honest lang,wag gagamit ng chess program,
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superbatil said:
Engine vs Engine Android








Sayang bulag pa.
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Ako nga bulag din. Kahit thread ko di ko makita spoilers he he, except sa last posts.
Nasa spoilers kasi mga "commercial" softwares, sorry. Pinuslit ko lang hanggang buhay pa.
Sa gamestracker.org, nasa list nila yang Chess Tutor ng Shedderchess pero torrent kasama pati ibang chess softwares like ChessOK Aquarium, Chess King, Peshka courses, atbp. Utorrent lang at ilang minuto, kuha mo na yan at may live seeds/peers pa.
 
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