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Kai Laskos,
a computer chess and Go theorist with statistical expertise ^[1] and frequent poster in CCC on the topic of Match Statistics.

Forum Posts

2011

• Just stumbled upon an open-source free engine by Kai Laskos, CCC, January 21, 2011 » Ivanhoe
• Top 5 engines. Large, 10,000 games test by Kai Laskos, CCC, April 06, 2011
• Critter 1.2 SEEMS to be a member of the Ippo family by Kai Laskos, CCC, July 02, 2011 » Critter
• Fritz and Naum shown as Rybka/Strelka clones by Kai Laskos, CCC, October 17, 2011 » Fritz, Naum, Rybka, Strelka

2012

• Go questions by Kai Laskos, CCC, February 13, 2012 » Go
• Rybka odds matches and the strength of engines by Kai Laskos, CCC, June 09, 2012 » Rybka
• Playing with ponder hits by Kai Laskos, CCC, June 12, 2012 » Pondering
• EloStat, Bayeselo and Ordo by Kai Laskos, CCC, June 24, 2012 » EloStat, Bayeselo, Ordo
• Komodo strength v Houdini (branch salvaged) by Kai Laskos, CCC, July 25, 2012 » Komodo, Houdini
• 10 years of Computer Chess by Kai Laskos, CCC, November 08, 2012
• The scaling of Houdini 3 and Komodo 5 by Kai Laskos, CCC, November 08, 2012 » Houdini, Komodo
• Elo points gain from doubling time by Kai Laskos, CCC, December 10, 2012
• Engines performance for selected openings by Kai Laskos, CCC, December 23, 2012

2013

• Abnormality in women FIDE ratings by Kai Laskos, CCC, January 30, 2013
• Performances of engines in the Endgame by Kai Laskos, CCC, January 31, 2013
• Updated Dendrogram by Kai Laskos, CCC, February 02, 2013 ^[2]
• Effect of the Hash Table size by Kai Laskos, CCC, April 28, 2013 » Transposition Table
• Branching Factor of top engines by Kai Laskos, CCC, June 15, 2013 » Branching Factor
• Peculiarity of Komodo 5.1MP by Kai Laskos, CCC, June 19, 2013 » Komodo
• The influence of the length of openings by Kai Laskos, CCC, July 14, 2013
• Scaling at 2x nodes (or doubling time control) by Kai Laskos, CCC, July 23, 2013 » Doubling TC, Diminishing Returns, Playing Strength, Houdini
• Type I error in LOS based early stopping rule by Kai Laskos, CCC, August 06, 2013 ^[3]
• What happens using egbb by Kai Laskos, CCC, October 12, 2013 » Endgame Bitbases
• Houdini, much weaker engines, and Arpad Elo by Kai Laskos, CCC, November 29, 2013 » Houdini, Pawn Advantage, Win Percentage, and ELO ^[4]
• STS and the scaling of Houdini and Stockfish by Kai Laskos, CCC, December 12, 2013 » Houdini, Stockfish

2014

• Stockfish seems definitely the strongest engine by Kai Laskos, CCC, January 21, 2014 » Stockfish
• Performance of Syzygy and Scorpio by Kai Laskos, CCC, February 04, 2014 » Syzygy Bases, Scorpio Bitbases
• Empirically 1 win + 1 loss ~ 2 draws by Kai Laskos, CCC, June 24, 2014
• Some fun with Komodo 8 by Kai Laskos, CCC, September 23, 2014 » Komodo 8, EBF
• Scaling with threads based on Andreas Strangmüller tests by Kai Laskos, CCC, October 24, 2014 » Andreas Strangmüller

2015

• Ten years of Computer Chess revisited by Kai Laskos, CCC, March 13, 2015
• An attempt to measure the knowledge of engines by Kai Laskos, CCC, March 23, 2015
• Empirical results with Lazy SMP, YBWC, DTS by Kai Laskos, CCC, April 16, 2015 » Lazy SMP, YBWC, DTS
• Significant modification of Komodo SMP implementation by Kai Laskos, CCC, June 23, 2015 » Komodo
• A simple expression by Kai Laskos, CCC, December 09, 2015

2016

• Some properties of the Type I error in p-value stopping rule by Kai Laskos, CCC, March 01, 2016
• Type I error for p-value stopping: Balanced and Unbalanced by Kai Laskos, CCC, June 16, 2016
• Error margins via resampling (jackknifing) by Kai Laskos, CCC, August 12, 2016 ^{[5] [6]}
• Properties of unbalanced openings using Bayeselo model by Kai Laskos, CCC, August 27, 2016 » Match Statistics, Opening Book
• Some hyperthreading results by Kai Laskos, CCC, September 12, 2016 » Lazy SMP, Thread, YBWC
• Stockfish underpromotes much more often than Komodo by Kai Laskos, CCC, October 05, 2016 » Komodo, Match Statistics, Promotions, Stockfish
• Differences between top engines related to "style" by Kai Laskos, October 07, 2016
• The scaling of Deep Learning MCTS Go engines by Kai Laskos, CCC, October 23, 2016 » Deep Learning, Go, MCTS
• Opening performance of engines by Kai Laskos, CCC, October 28, 2016 » Opening, Test-Positions
• Diminishing returns and hyperthreading by Kai Laskos, CCC, December 27, 2016 » Diminishing Returns, Match Statistics, Thread

2017

• Progress in 30 years by four intervals of 7-8 years by Kai Laskos, CCC, January 19, 2017 » Match Statistics, Playing Strength
• Higher than expected by me efficiency of Ponder ON by Kai Laskos, CCC, March 06, 2017 » Match Statistics, Pondering
• What can be said about 1 - 0 score? by Kai Laskos, CCC, March 28, 2017 » Match Statistics
• 6-men Syzygy from HDD and USB 3.0 by Kai Laskos, CCC, April 04, 2017 » Komodo, Playing Strength, Syzygy Bases, USB 3.0
• Scaling of engines from FGRL rating list by Kai Laskos, CCC, April 07, 2017 » FGRL
• Another attempt at comparing Evals ELO-wise by Kai Laskos, CCC, May 22, 2017 » Evaluation, Playing Strength
• Opening testing suites efficiency by Kai Laskos, CCC, June 21, 2017 » Engine Testing, Opening, Match Statistics
• Invariance with time control of rating schemes by Kai Laskos, CCC, July 22, 2017 ^[7]
• Ways to avoid "Draw Death" in Computer Chess by Kai Laskos, CCC, July 25, 2017
• Scaling from FGRL results with top 3 engines by Kai Laskos, CCC, September 26, 2017 » FGRL, Houdini, Komodo, Stockfish

2018

• A Chess variant with low draw rate by Kai Laskos, CCC, January 19, 2018 » Chess Variants

References

1. ^ A Gross Miscarriage of Justice in Computer Chess (part two) by Søren Riis, ChessBase News, January 03, 2012
2. ^ Dendrogram from Wikipedia
3. ^ Type I and type II errors from Wikipedia
4. ^ Arpad Elo - Wikipedia
5. ^ Resampling (statistics) from Wikipedia
6. ^ Jackknife resampling from WIkipedia
7. ^ Normalized Elo (pdf) by Michel Van den Bergh

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