

Originally he is from Iran, where he made an international mark by winning the 2001 Iranian Chess Championship with a score of 10/11, ahead of Ehsan Ghaem Maghami. NODET is an organization that recruits students for middle and high schools through and is aimed to provide a unique educational environment for the exceptionally talented students.Įlshan is a currently a member of the USCF and has played for the Texas Tech University, winning the Pan-American Team Championship for the first time in 2015. GM Elshan Moradiabadi lives in Texas and studied in NODET Schools (National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents) from 1996 to 2003. We'll be releasing all the games and GM Elshan Moradiabadi's comments on moments he highlighted. This was his assessment after reviewing 200 games. Remember, this was not his opinion based on a couple of carefully chosen games given to him.

"Unlike Leela, Fat Fritz has a sweet tooth for complexity, and while Leela deals with positional sacrifices as they happen (as a matter of necessity or not), Fat Fritz looks for those complex lines, making it a great companion for those who take a liking to the games of Kasparov and Tal!" Ok, but what did he think now that he was able to see how it played? When was the last time you ever heard a GM say he was loving looking at a game between engines? In fact, after just one hour with the 200 games we gave him, he messaged back, "I have 100 things to do, but this is so much fun, I hate you!". GM Elshan Moradiabadi is a player who has analyzed extensively with it, so it was interesting to see whether he agreed with this assessment. There have been numerous posts in feedback on how moves shown were all typical fare for the open-source project Leela Chess Zero. Still, not content to just post a number of results, we sent the games to a strong grandmaster to look at them. While hardly proof, it does strongly suggest Fat Fritz is stronger than AlphaZero in equal conditions. In roughly similar conditions, the pre-release build of Fat Fritz scored nearly 90 Elo over it, using a varied set of balanced openings even in speed conditions that were a bit worse. We only know how strong AlphaZero was by virtue of its results against Stockfish 8, which it beat by a bit over 30 Elo on average in long games. Readers will wonder why Stockfish 8 at all? The reason was to be able to compare with AlphaZero to get a rough baseline for comparison. So Fat Fritz defeated Stockfish 8 with 62.5%, and Stockfish 10 by 52.5%. We conducted matches against Stockfish 8 and Stockfish 10. The speed conditions are actually a good deal worse than AlphaZero, which had around a 900 to 1 NPS speed difference, while here Stockfish was running at 1450 times faster in NPS, so if anything, it favored Stockfish. Stockfish ran on 16 threads at 16 million nodes per second, while the pre-release version of Fat Fritz ran at a little over 11 thousand NPS (for the Leela specialists this was done with the slower CUDNN backend). Ponder was switched off, the Silver Openings Suite was used to ensure maximum opening diversity, and the time control was 20m+10s. The computer we used for both Fat Fritz and Stockfish was a Ryzen 7 3700X with an NVIDIA RTX 2080, 32 GB RAM. Well, we wanted to see for ourselves, and staged two matches between Fat Fritz and Stockfish. So while GMs and other may be jumping on the NN bandwagon, Stockfish is STILL the champion. Leela played so poorly against weaker engines that it didn't even qualify for the Super Final. Stockfish also won the TCEC Season 16 Super Final. Karbuncle 12:56: FYI Leela was defeated by Stockfish in the TCEC Cup knockout tournament. Our recent article " Fat Fritz seemed to be from an entirely different plane of existence!" elicited some criticism and predictions.
