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#chess #duolingo #siliconroad #catsofmastodon #catsunday 8 out of 10 cats recommend my videos!

#chess #tcec #siliconroad A nice demo of how NNs (various technologies) have increased the strength of engines. Leela and current Stockfish took on the last Stockfish version to feature a hand-crafted evaluation (not self-learnt as now) in 5-min blitz from the starting position. tcec-chess.com

#reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad #chess #tcec A quick look at a really instructive moment from the ongoing Season 28 SuperFinal between Stockfish and Leela https://matthewsadler.me.uk/engine-chess/whole-board-play/

#siliconroad #chess #reengineeringtheclassics #tcec Breaking into the ongoing series on the Colle-Zukertort, a look at a very interesting moment during game 8 of the ongoing TCEC SuperFinal between Stockfish and Leela. All about small details, general assessments and peering into the future! https://matthewsadler.me.uk/attack/the-smallest-details/

#chess #reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad #chessvariants #pawnsidewayschess Something completely different: 2 videos on pawnsideways chess introduced by DeepMind and Vladimir Kramnik in a 2020 paper! An introductory video introducing the simple rule change and some effects and then a video pitting the GM against the GOAT of variant chess: Fairy-Stockfish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5kc92lA-7M and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVFCE-DB3W8 A really fascinating form of chess with a lot that is familiar and a lot that is new and really cool 😎

#reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad #chess #lichess #galentinesday Appropriately(?!) enough on Galentine’s Day, we see Leela dishing out some more amazing tactics at queen odds! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWl4MzQ98tA

#chess #tcec #reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad Secondly, a lovely fortress spot by Leela! Stockfish set up the Nf5 tactic with a g3 pawn sac, but Leela took it correctly assessing that the resulting endings led to a rook vs queen fortress! Really impressive at such a distance!

#tcec #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #chess A couple of nice moments from the ongoing TCEC Superfinal https://tcec-chess.com Firstly, a Fischer-Petrosian moment when Leela played Nxe7 in this position!

#chess #reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad #tcec I tune into the TCEC and Leela is already 3.5-1.5 down 🥺🥺🥺🥺

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #tcec Ah 9.Nxc6, we Sicilian players always saw it as a beginner’s move, strengthening Black’s centre and giving him the b-file for counterplay. Lost count of the number of times I’ve explained this “mistake” to people 🥺Turns out it’s White’s best approach 😊

#chess #tcec #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics Watching Leela play with knight odds against all comers. It’s seriously impressive. Leela currently has a score of 121.5-1.5 against an IM rated 2525! Watch for yourselves! https://lichess.org/@/LeelaKnightOdds-dev/tv

#chess #siliconroad #tcec #reengineeringtheclassics Some Basman-style openings at the TCEC! …Nh6 in the Leningrad was a favourite of the younger and *slightly* less crazy English player! Stockfish suffering to hold atm though!

#reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad #chess #tcec Leela-Stockfish here we go!! https://tcec-chess.com/#

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #cccc (One of) the best attacking games of 2024… played at bullet pace! Equisetum-Leela is simply insane! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZbT8VFF4mo

Well whadyaknow! Even the TCEC engines are getting stuck into the Budapest! 😮😮😮 TCEC-chess.com #chess #tcec #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics

#reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad #chess #tcec If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you twice: don’t triple your g-pawns! Leela holds a draw 3 pawns down! https://tcec-chess.com/#div=sw&game=351&season=27

#tcec #siliconroad #chess Silly engine 🤨 It’s the *black* queen that goes to h7 in the French 🧐 https://tcec-chess.com/

#chess #reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad #tcec At the TCEC, Halogen and Booot fighting out an opening line exit from the Blumenfeld Gambit that I once had in a simultaneous display against @stephenfry at the Docklands in 1988 😊 (I was White) https://tcec-chess.com/

#chess #tcec #reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad For the diehard Leela fan, there’s a kickass video out there for ya! 😂😂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Z8URREeD0

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #tcec After so many years…a new Leela video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4liaHMbfXc

#tcec #chess #siliconroad I open the TCEC for the first time in months and mrbdzz is involved in a furious discussion with accusations of *yoinking* flying around left, right and centre 😮😮😮

#chess #siliconroad #tcec Yep, a4-a5 in King's Indian structures! Never seen it quite that quick!

#siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #chess #tcec Well Stockfish thought it had escaped… but it’s been caught in a trap! 😮😮 tcec-chess.com

#chess #reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad #tcec How should Garry have defended it? Let Leela and Stockfish show you! tcec-chess.com And this shows you how Garry played it against Deep Blue! Deep Blue rediscovered! 1997 Match against Garry Kasparov - Game 6: Total Disaster!
youtu.be/C5j6qjyY0MA

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #tcec #lichess You know... it's not so difficult when you know your (TCEC) classics! https://youtu.be/kKQ1XZp_cpk?si=zTs4Y1GJLI-eaytJ and https://lichess.org/W42ZEW3e/white#43

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #lichess #candidates2024 Lei playing Leela's favourite (with Contempt) 5.Rg1 against the Philidor. Let's hope her game is as good as thuis outrageous effort from Leela was! https://tcec-chess.com/#div=contemptla&game=11&season=26

#tcec #chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #lichess A blog article covering the fascinating David Navara - Leela Zero knight odds match played last Saturday on lichess! https://matthewsadler.me.uk/engine-chess/knight-odds-match-on-lichess/

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #tcec #lichess A new blog post out! 😮 And I really worry what sort of bots it's going to attract thanks to @skiminki 's name for his program! https://matthewsadler.me.uk/openings/the-mrbdzz-novelty-grinder/

David Navara defeats Leela 7-3 with a stunning performance in the knight odds match on @lichess Relive all the action (with game summaries by David too during the match) on the Silicon Road channel https://www.youtube.com/live/3sIUwRBDTtc?si=qXp22NqEkNB_ajKt Games here: https://lichess.org/broadcast/leela-vs-gm-david-navara-knight-odds-match/match/U8CvXKoW#boards#reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad #chess #tcec #lichess

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #tcec The TCEC Entrance League has started and it’s pretty strong! 😮😮 https://TCEC-chess.com

#reengineeringtheclassics #siliconroad #chess #cccc A nice queen sac from Stockfish to draw against Leela at the chess.com CCCC. Moves: 28. Qa4 (diag1) Nxd4 29. Qxd7 Nb3+ 30. Ka2 Nc1+ (diag2) 31. Rfxc1 Rxb2+ 32. Rxb2 Rxb2+ 33. Ka1 Rc2+ (diag3) 34. Kb1 Rb2+ 35. Ka1 https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship

#reengineeringtheclassics #chess #siliconroad #tcec #cccc Wall-to-wall toucans on computer chess sites 😮 Conspiracy? 🧐 https://tcec-chess.com/# https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #tcec #cccc #torch #tatasteelchess While streaming, I mentioned a fantastic tool that may not be known to everyone: https://chessdb.cn It’s a continuously expanding database of Stockfish-powered analysis to which you can submit positions for analysis. Today Black’s mistake 18…Be6 against Alireza at the Tata Steel Masters was already known in there! White’s best reply which Alireza found was given as +100 centipawns (pawn advantage)

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #tcec #tcecsuperfinal25 Lovely sequence of intermezzo tactics in game 11 of the TCEC Season 25 SuperFinal culminating in an evil fork of knight and rook to regain the sacrificed piece! #ForkFriday https://tcec-chess.com/

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #tcec #leela Here it is! The Leela video you didn’t know you needed 😉😊😊 A gorgeous bit of Spanish torture in the sharp Ruy Lopez Zaitsev! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gqcwByjwvo

#chess #siliconroad #alphazero A new DeepMind paper on chess-related topics (this time looking at solving fortresses and Penrose positions) using AlphaZero https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.09175.pdf

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #schlechter What do I have for you tonight? A bit of sentimentality as we go back to a game of Frank Marshall's which impressed me hugely as a young boy! The victim is our hero Carl Schlechter who finds Marshall's inventiveness impossible to deal with! Features a pretty nifty anti-Tarrasch system too! https://youtu.be/sgs9Y_jApyU

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #schlechter What do I have for you tonight? A bit of sentimentality as we go back to a game of Frank Marshall's which impressed me hugely as a young boy! The victim is our hero Carl Schlechter who finds Marshall's inventiveness impossible to deal with! Features a pretty nifty anti-Tarrasch system too! https://youtu.be/sgs9Y_jApyU

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #schlechter Another great tactical slugfest from the classical era as Frank Marshall and Carl Schlechter trade pins and forks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ8q_3qdfQQ

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #schlechter We start a fresh round of classic games focusing this time on the great Austro-Hungarian player Carl Schlechter (1874-1918). We kick off with a King’s Gambit that goes absolutely loopy after an early rook sacrifice! Enjoy! 😊😊😊 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxdZfVmkLIA

#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics #cccc #Leela A lovely positional game of the type only Leela can play! A deep exchange sacrifice followed by an exchange of queens drains all the life from Dragon's position and Leela keeps control beautifully throughout the conversiuon phase. And if you're a Simagin fan 😉 you will love this! https://youtu.be/QLhCL6CrUVg