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@AllieTheChessBot progress update and stronger configurations

Would like to know if there are different variants than AllieTheChessBot ?
I wouldn't want it to resign like humans. Humans are terrible; just read other forum topics!
@CaseyFr said in #2:
> Would like to know if there are different variants than AllieTheChessBot ?

Other variants (e.g., chess960) seem unlikely at the moment, but we may support bullet and rapid in the next few months.
@LordCrazy said in #7:
> Will you support playing "From position"?

From position is tricky. Allie needs to see the full "move history" of a game rather than just the FEN of a position, so this is likely not possible with Allie.
I like the questions of adaptability. I thought the conceptual models of maia based on tiering the pair averages of players was missing some of the available information. I guess asking of opponent variation might start leading further questions to be considered in the playing model. There is also the information loss in the tiering itself. I keep thinking of figure 11 of the fist maia paper, where the conversion curves (although a cloud made a family of curves, without display of dispersion), seem to behave so smoothmly across the the ratings, that there might have been a slope information there.

Naive thinking from a figure I know, but naive is all we got in the discovery mode, unless we are ready to crank all the possiblilities for their logic, we hop onto flukes of imagination to test those as hypotheses, if they would fit what we see, and would be new things to try.

I missed what Allie was made up of, though. Or forgot. Where can I find that? ok I went back to blog. Is there a place where we can see some mathematical model? If it is like maia, then is it also based of the premise of an error model given an ex-machina model of best play? Can you remind us a bit of that, and where are the new dependencies being "entered"?