World Draughts Forum

I also see MCTSEngine, did you experiment with MCTS, policy networks, and NNUE?
In my case (and also other attempts) I never succeeded to make MCTS work with 10x10 international draughts, due to the problem of "traps". Do you have a similar experience?

Bert

Very interesting.
Can you share more details related to the training process.
How many games/positions, which positions did you exclude.
Did you use a CPU or GPU for training, how long did it take.
Also very interesting that you use a policy network, how did you train that one, and do you have any ...

The battle,

Bert

Michel, we are entering definitely a new era with Computer Draughts. One day you can (most likely) give a high level prompt like "write a computer draughts program from scratch which beat Kingsrow at a 3-ballot dxp match".
I don't want to put money on this, but if progress continues it could be 2030 ...

Remarkably, after 7 rounds, 12 programs with equal points, following the leader Kingsrow.

Bert

Gijsbert, did you use the (well known) TurboDambase Database?
As this is most likely not something you can share.
Not sure if this database is possible to share if you convert it, and use for another purpose?

Bert

It is indeed remarkable what already is possible with "vibe" coding. On my things-to-do list was (for example) the migration of the Damage GUI from MFC to QT. I'm not as far, but progress is on a daily basis (and sometimes I run through my usage credits, and need to wait several days before i can ...

This was indeed a very strange move, as Cerberus was winning, and after this move it was game over.....

Bert

Small detail , as you can imagine, the dashboard was created by codex .
I'm now working on a update Damage GUI, and my intention is (like Gijsbert), not to code 1 line myself. although codex is allowed to peek in the original code once a while....

Bert

I could not retrieve the final score. Think we need Ed for this. But anyway this was an interesting game. And between move 25-30 Plus was even in the plus. Not sure the position was winning.

Bert

Gijsbert, think we all need to learn how to use these new AI-tools.And the good news while we learn they continue to improve.
When do plan the next release of your GUI?

Bert

Gijsbert, do you also plan to write an application (in the same way) for databases?
Like Turbo Dambase for example?
I know that Klaas Bor worked really hard to create the perfect GUI for this purpose.
I'm sure he spent zillions of hours, and now all is possible with multiple prompts.
And next, I'm ...

Gijsbert, thanks that worked. Maybe you should mention it somewhere that you should download this separately.

Do you have problems with your weekly amount of credits?
In my case I can not work on the Damage GUI QT conversion till June 2, as I run out of credits (usage remaining 0%). But maybe my ...

Gijsbert, I downloaded the latest version 5 (.exe version) , but i could not see the draughts pieces. Do I need to separately install ?

Bert

What codex already can do is remarkable, and certainly not something I expected 5 - 10 years ago. I'm also certain that in 5 years from now (or less :shock: ), we will qualify the current AI-tools as completely stupid, compared with their future capabilities. I think codex is now on a mid-junior ...