Slog Bog

In the chess programming world something called NNUE is taking over. It is a terrible thing. It is replacing HCE (Hand Crafted Evaluation). In HCE chess engines one did their best to model chess knowledge into the position evaluation function. In RomiChess I encoded my own understanding of chess into its evaluation. Fans of RomiChess like it because of all chess engines it plays the most human like, so I have been told. NNUE is a 768 input cell neural network that "knows" nothing about chess. They simply take billions of positions from millions of games and weight the inputs through trial and error to best approximate (or best guess) the correct evaluation of any given position. In the yearly computer chess championships TCEC there is only one chess engine left that uses HCE, so I read. So I decided to look it up in the CCRL chess engine rating list. Here is the entry in the list.

"57 Weiss 2.0 64-bit 4CPU 3380 +15 −15 46.0% +25.4 61.9% 1069"

It is in 57th place and has a rating of 3380. Very strange but most likely only coincidental.

The real shame of NNUE is that any million game file by good players is going to converge to the exact same style of play. It is like the antichrist spirit affecting a large population base causing all its members to think alike. It might be said that NNUE is the Antichrist of chess programming. Strange, very strange indeed.

The vast majority of times there is nothing to coincidences, but in rare cases they are of significance. TUE-3857 was a Virginia license plate that greeted me upon arrival in a city near where KOSU is 88.3 on the FM dial. Where KOSU is 88.3 is also where Rocket Girl met Rocket Man while on a mission guided by the purple circle. Some of these terms are searchable on LDS FF (Fascist Forum). This split letter representation was posted there, but I forget by who and three letter words aren’t easily searchable on FF.

3857 was a license combo watched for while driving in excess of 100 miles on said rocket mission. No reason was supplied as to why seeing 3857 would be appreciated. Korihor sought after signs without wishing to gain knowledge. TUE preceded 3857 and correlates well with Tuesday Afternoon by The Moody Blues. Indeed Moody is a “hit” in the vernacular of stage psychics, who are often counterfeit operators.

Besides the actual numbers there is also set and setting to consider, and follow on events such as hearing a guy on the radio say words to the effect that Tuesday is followed by WTF. Things have setback at least a year, but there’s always plan B, C and D to consider. Oh well, keep on keep’n on and it will all work out in Thee End.