What kind of success are you having with this? I expected a log to be produced from my use with this engine analyzing positions but none was created. What have I misunderstood? I had mode set to 0 and I created the logs directory in case that was the problem...

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What kind of success are you having with this? I expected a log to be produced from my use with this engine analyzing positions but none was created. What have I misunderstood? I had mode set to 0 and I created the logs directory in case that was the problem...

I used the -repeat switch for the positions to be repeated with colors swapped, but apparently cutechess ignores this if the tournament is a round robin. Is this the expected behavior?

I guess it's finally time to post my first message on this board. Cutechess-cli does indeed ignore the "-repeat ...

This is very interesting as I thought the order would've been:

1. Houdini
2. Critter
3. Rybka
4. Komodo


Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws
1 Rybka 4.1 11 17 17 553 53% -4 58%
2 Houdini 2.0c 4 17 17 550 51% -1 65%
3 Komodo 3 -2 17 17 551 50% 1 60%
4 Critter 1.4 -13 17 17 552 47 ...

kingliveson wrote:This is very interesting as I thought the order would've been:

1. Houdini
2. Critter
3. Rybka
4. Komodo

My earlier testing had Houdini at the top. Who knows what it will look like with another 600 (or more) games added on Friday.

Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws
1 Rybka 4.1 16 23 23 300 54% -5 56%
2 Komodo 3 0 23 23 300 50% 0 59%
3 Houdini 2.0c -3 22 22 300 49% 1 64%
4 Critter 1.4 -13 23 23 300 47% 4 60%


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64-bit and SSE4.2 versions when available
Nalimov and ...

I do have to like the CPW page on Rolf, particularly the inventive title "computer chess forum activist". :)

I followed the link and some of the rgcc links as well. Apparently Bob and Rolf have been rehashing the same argument re the Deep Blue match of '97 for over a decade. Is it stamina or ...

I laughed my ass off when I saw claims that Vas has created a whole new programming language with Rybka in other threads, but now he speaks in tongues ! Who knew using simple defines could spawn such spirituality…and an effectively higher level proprietary language.
More gibberish from Trotsky/Ed ...

Anyone have a working makefile for Stockfish under MS Visual Studio 2010? Any special options I should be using?

I compiled Stockfish 1.8 at one time, but I lost the makefile I used.

Stockfish is pretty easy to make at the command line with the MS compiler.

cl /Festockfish /Ox /DNDEBUG /DIS ...

Has anyone put Remi's new optimization tool to use on a cluster yet? Bob? If so, what kind of improvements are you seeing?

On a cluster with N identical computers testing time is divided by N.

Thanks for the input. I'd be very curios to see how CLOP performs versus Bob's manual single-variable ...