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A new discovery.
Name:Aether.
Author: Kacper Maciołek.
Country:Poland.
Programming language:Rust.
Binary compiled by: SilvianR.




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Thanks for the post Daniel.
But I tried your code but the results are always empty bitboards, both for rooks and bishops.
It seems to me "attack_table[]" is empty.
Can you help on this?

Also you have different definitions of "struct SMagic"
Ths first is

Code:

U64 attack_table[85204]; struct SMagic { U64 mask; // black magic mask U64 magic; // magic 64-bi...

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It seems the better consumer SSDs are nowadays rated for 600 TB write endurance.It seems write endurance for enterprise SSDs is typically measured in number of daily full writes over 5 years.

For example the Intel P4610 is rated for 3 DWPD, so the 7.68 TB variant can cope with about 42 PB of writes (at 1k = 1000).
Two of them together might have about enough capacity t...

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I have a CPU with 8 P and 4 E cores but I have disabled the E cores in the BIOS.Wouldn’t it be nice if the test controller, cutechess or whatever, could manage to ensure that each matched game pair was carried out on either P core or E core. Then it doesn’t really matter about the core performance, since they’ll be balanced, and that’s all we need. Balance.

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Then yet some more "stats" from my side too, out of the little head to head match against Dragon 3.3:

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early bad avg.win Rank EAS-Score sacs sacs shorts draws moves Engine/player --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 260683 07.21% 62.50% 20.72% 17.75% 73 Astra 7.0 2 220198 28.12% 22.22% 29.17% 21.16% 67 Dragon3.3 ----------...

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