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'''Kai Laskos''', <br/>
a Romanian physicist and Ph.D. working on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_physics theoretical physics] at '''IFIN HH''', the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horia_Hulubei Horia Hulubei] National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering <ref>[https://www.nipne.ro/about/history/ Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering]</ref> in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest Bucharest].
His recreational interests include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music classical music], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History history], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology anthropology], and computer Chess and [[Go]].
His professional expertise in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics statistics] made him a recognized computer chess and Go theorist <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131205085905/https://en.chessbase.com/post/a-gro-miscarriage-of-justice-in-computer-che-part-two- A Gross Miscarriage of Justice in Computer Chess (part two)] by [[Søren Riis]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], January 03, 2012 ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine])</ref>
in the field of [[Match Statistics|match statistics]] in [[Engine Testing|engine testing]].

=Forum Posts=
==2010 ...==
'''2011'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37729 Just stumbled upon an open-source free engine] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], January 21, 2011 » [[Ivanhoe]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38677 Top 5 engines. Large, 10,000 games test] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], April 06, 2011
'''2012'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42444 Go questions] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], February 13, 2012 » [[Go]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44003 Rybka odds matches and the strength of engines] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 09, 2012 » [[Rybka]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44037 Playing with ponder hits] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 12, 2012 » [[Pondering]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44180 EloStat, Bayeselo and Ordo] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 24, 2012 » [[EloStat]], [[Bayeselo]], [[Ordo]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44586 Komodo strength v Houdini (branch salvaged)] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], July 25, 2012 » [[Komodo]], [[Houdini]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45902 10 years of Computer Chess] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], November 08, 2012
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46019 The scaling of Houdini 3 and Komodo 5] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], November 08, 2012 » [[Houdini]], [[Komodo]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46370 Elo points gain from doubling time] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], December 10, 2012 » [[Komodo]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46551 Engines performance for selected openings] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], December 23, 2012
'''2013'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47051 Abnormality in women FIDE ratings] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], January 30, 2013
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47060 Performances of engines in the Endgame] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], January 31, 2013
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47086 Updated Dendrogram] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], February 02, 2013 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrogram Dendrogram from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47872 Effect of the Hash Table size] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], April 28, 2013 » [[Transposition Table]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48281 Branching Factor of top engines] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 15, 2013 » [[Branching Factor]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48339 Peculiarity of Komodo 5.1MP] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 19, 2013 » [[Komodo]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48649 The influence of the length of openings] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], July 14, 2013
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48733 Scaling at 2x nodes (or doubling time control)] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], July 23, 2013 » [[Match Statistics#DoublingTC|Doubling TC]], [[Depth#DiminishingReturns|Diminishing Returns]], [[Playing Strength]], [[Houdini]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48863 Type I error in LOS based early stopping rule] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], August 06, 2013 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors Type I and type II errors from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49684 What happens using egbb] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], October 12, 2013 » [[Endgame Bitbases]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50266 Houdini, much weaker engines, and Arpad Elo] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], November 29, 2013 » [[Houdini]], [[Pawn Advantage, Win Percentage, and Elo]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpad_Elo Arpad Elo - Wikipedia]</ref>
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50452 STS and the scaling of Houdini and Stockfish] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], December 12, 2013 » [[Houdini]], [[Stockfish]]
'''2014'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50989 Stockfish seems definitely the strongest engine] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], January 21, 2014 » [[Stockfish]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51159 Performance of Syzygy and Scorpio] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], February 04, 2014 » [[Syzygy Bases]], [[Scorpio Bitbases]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52746 Empirically 1 win + 1 loss ~ 2 draws] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 24, 2014
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53807 Some fun with Komodo 8] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], September 23, 2014 » [[Komodo#8|Komodo 8]], [[Branching Factor#EffectiveBranchingFactor|EBF]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54131 Scaling with threads based on Andreas Strangmüller tests] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], October 24, 2014 » [[Andreas Strangmüller]]
==2015 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55650 Ten years of Computer Chess revisited] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], March 13, 2015
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55752 An attempt to measure the knowledge of engines] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], March 23, 2015
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56019 Empirical results with Lazy SMP, YBWC, DTS] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], April 16, 2015 » [[Lazy SMP]], [[Young Brothers Wait Concept|YBWC]], [[Dynamic Tree Splitting|DTS]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56762 Significant modification of Komodo SMP implementation] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 23, 2015 » [[Komodo]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58543 A simple expression] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], December 09, 2015
'''2016'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59406 Some properties of the Type I error in p-value stopping rule] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], March 01, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60508 Type I error for p-value stopping: Balanced and Unbalanced] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 16, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61105 Error margins via resampling (jackknifing)] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], August 12, 2016 » [[Match Statistics#Statistical Analysis|Statistical Analysis]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resampling_(statistics) Resampling (statistics) from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackknife_resampling Jackknife resampling from WIkipedia]</ref>
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61245 Properties of unbalanced openings using Bayeselo model] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], August 27, 2016 » [[Match Statistics]], [[Opening Book]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61408 Some hyperthreading results] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], September 12, 2016 » [[Lazy SMP]], [[Thread]], [[Young Brothers Wait Concept|YBWC]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61601 Stockfish underpromotes much more often than Komodo] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], October 05, 2016 » [[Komodo]], [[Match Statistics]], [[Promotions]], [[Stockfish]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61636 Differences between top engines related to "style"] by [[Kai Laskos]], October 07, 2016
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61801 The scaling of Deep Learning MCTS Go engines] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], October 23, 2016 » [[Deep Learning]], [[Go]], [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search|MCTS]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61858 Opening performance of engines] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], October 28, 2016 » [[Opening]], [[Test-Positions]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62622 Diminishing returns and hyperthreading] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], December 27, 2016 » [[Depth#DiminishingReturns|Diminishing Returns]], [[Match Statistics]], [[Thread]]
'''2017'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62868 Progress in 30 years by four intervals of 7-8 years] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], January 19, 2017 » [[Match Statistics]], [[Playing Strength]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63355 Higher than expected by me efficiency of Ponder ON] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], March 06, 2017 » [[Match Statistics]], [[Pondering]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63572 What can be said about 1 - 0 score?] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2017 » [[Match Statistics]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63652 6-men Syzygy from HDD and USB 3.0] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], April 04, 2017 » [[Komodo]], [[Playing Strength]], [[Syzygy Bases]], [[Memory#USB3|USB 3.0]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63687 Scaling of engines from FGRL rating list] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], April 07, 2017 » [[FGRL]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64041 Another attempt at comparing Evals ELO-wise] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], May 22, 2017 » [[Evaluation]], [[Playing Strength]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64358 Opening testing suites efficiency] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 21, 2017 » [[Engine Testing]], [[Opening]], [[Match Statistics]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64683 Invariance with time control of rating schemes] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], July 22, 2017 <ref>[http://hardy.uhasselt.be/Toga/normalized_elo.pdf Normalized Elo] (pdf) by [[Michel Van den Bergh]]</ref>
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64719 Ways to avoid "Draw Death" in Computer Chess] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], July 25, 2017
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65288 Scaling from FGRL results with top 3 engines] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], September 26, 2017 » [[FGRL]], [[Houdini]], [[Komodo]], [[Stockfish]]
'''2018'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=66293 Queen versus two Rooks performance of top engines] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], January 10, 2018
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66364 A Chess variant with low draw rate] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], January 19, 2018 » [[Games#ChessVariants|Chess Variants]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66821 Time control envelope in top engines could be improved?] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], March 13, 2018 » [[Time Management]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66945 LCZero: Progress and Scaling. Relation to CCRL Elo] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2018 » [[Playing Strength]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=68072 Why Lc0 eval (in cp) is asymmetric against AB engines?] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], July 25, 2018 » [[Leela Chess Zero#Lc0|Lc0]], [[Asymmetric Evaluation]], [[Pawn Advantage, Win Percentage, and Elo]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=68441 Some properties of Lc0 playing] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], September 14, 2018
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=68517 Leela doesn't obey well the Elo curve set by regular engines] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], September 26, 2018 » [[Leela Chess Zero]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=68875 Komodo MCTS scales worse with TC than Komodo A/B?] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], November 08, 2018 » [[Komodo]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69045 2900 Elo points progress, 10 million games, 330 nets] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], November 25, 2018 » [[Leela Chess Zero#Lc0|Lc0]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69068 Scaling of Lc0 at high Leela Ratio] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], November 27, 2018
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69318 Smallnet (128x10) run1 progresses remarkably well] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], December 19, 2018
'''2019'''
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=69536 Interesting article in "Nature" on Machine Learning] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], January 09, 2019 » [[Learning]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69672 Schizophrenic rating model for Leela] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], January 21, 2019 » [[Match Statistics]], [[Leela Chess Zero]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70438 Middlegame positional test-suite] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], April 07, 2019 » [[Middlegame]], [[Test-Positions]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70788 How to get the "usual" Multi PV with MCTS engines?] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], May 21, 2019 » [[Principal Variation#MultiPV|MultiPV]], [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search|MCTS]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=70899 Why are super top professional Go players so stupid?] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 02, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=71025 ChessBase's prophecy of 2004 fulfilled in 2019] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 17, 2019 » [[ChessBase]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=71146 Is there a standard in implementing MultiPV in regular engines?] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], June 30, 2019 » [[Principal Variation#MultiPV|MultiPV]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=71812 Is e4 significantly better than d4?] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], September 13, 2019
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=72197 Some words on Leela Go Zero] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], October 28, 2019 » [[Leela Zero]]
==2020 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74037 Stockfish_dev is probably stronger than Sargon 1978 v1.00] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], May 29, 2020 » [[Stockfish]], [[Sargon]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74705 What happens with my hyperthreading?] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], August 06, 2020 » [[Thread]], [[Stockfish NNUE]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=74765 Progress of Stockfish in 6 days] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], August 12, 2020 » [[Stockfish NNUE]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75006 Jackknife estimate of the variance of engine results for Arasan test suite] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], September 05, 2020 » [[Match Statistics#Statistical Analysis|Statistical Analysis]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75080 Armageddon scoring doesn't enhance the resolution power of the test suite] by [[Kai Laskos]], [[CCC]], September 11, 2020

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