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Another quiz book, this time Loek van Wely in the Najdorf as black. https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ynylumdqt5b810/van_wely_najdorf.pdf?dl=0

Let’s do a little arithmetic: Let’s assume three chess coaches charge $50/hr. One of them averages 2 lessons per day, another 4 and the last one 8. The first coach will earn about $36k per year, the s…

There’s not a lot of upside to AlphaZero chess playing against SF10 and Leela in something like TCEC. At worst it’ll be a little weaker than those two, at best it’ll be a little better. Definitely not…

@dRr0x0rZZ I think it’s hard to be objective about one of your great opponents. Maybe he’ll write some books now that he’s retired.

@Savage47 You need to look a little further for Kramnik’s view on Lasker, like this great interview. https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrowski/vladimir-kramnik-from-steinitz-to-kasparov “Lasker is a gran…

@Q-Chess Leela-style net but trained with a mix of human games and stockfish smarts https://github.com/dkappe/leela-chess-weights/wiki/Bad-Gyal

If you have a decent GPU, you could run a leela net. Or, if you don’t want to be yet another leela clone, you could run the Bad Gyal or Good Gyal networks. https://github.com/dkappe/leela-chess-weight…

@Savage47 No opening is drawish OTB below 2000. :-)

128x10, q-ratio 0.5, 2.48M games https://github.com/dkappe/leela-chess-weights/wiki/Bad-Gyal It's little sister, Mean Girl, plays under MiniHuman on lichess.

@Savage47 You’d think so, but a bot is somehow like a red flag for some folks. They lose a few games to a weak NN engine, then they whip out the Stockfish to teach it a lesson.