What is the most important thing in an engine for you?

pichy · Post by **pichy** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:43 am

I find it hard to believe that most of the people who post here are only interested in getting the engines that that have the higher rating as if all that they want to do is to pit engine vs engine. I want more from an engine than just a high Elo, such as being able to solve simple positions that even a Human Master can solve.

Kempelen · Post by **Kempelen** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:42 pm

I speciallyy like engines that has a tendency to search for king attacks positions. That does not mean it could be correct to play that way, it is only a style.
In ICC my engine usually play with Rookie that I have seen has this kind of tendence and it wins many point that way agains my engine which is a bit weaker. When I observe games I try to figure how Marcel has doing the work to program Rookie for a so dynamic and nice play.
Fermin

Kingghidorah · Post by **Kingghidorah** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:37 pm

pichy wrote:I find it hard to believe that most of the people who post here are only interested in getting the engines that that have the higher rating as if all that they want to do is to pit engine vs engine. I want more from an engine than just a high Elo, such as being able to solve simple positions that even a Human Master can solve.

I go for it's style to look at different games through different eyes. I also am particular about the GUI that houses it. CB GUI is my baby, I am comfortable with it and visually it gives me all the info I need to know.

Being able to play with the parameters of the engine is a nice touch too.

hgm · Post by **hgm** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:45 pm

That it plays Gothic or Spartan Chess!

Matthias Gemuh · Post by **Matthias Gemuh** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:55 pm

- must support UCI and never lose stupidly by time-overstep.

fern · Post by **fern** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:59 pm

..must lose to me from time to time. After that, a gui full of frills and bells.

Fern

pichy · Post by **pichy** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:01 pm

hgm wrote:That it plays Gothic or Spartan Chess!

That is interesting, Gothic and Spartan Chess

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/index.html

pichy · Post by **pichy** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:47 pm

fern wrote:..must lose to me from time to time. After that, a gui full of frills and bells.

Fern

What I want from an engine beside being over 3000+ is to be able to detect, impossible to find or time consuming for engines, sacrifices.
Unfortunately most engines have difficulties sacrificing and they don't have the right tool to make the correct analysis. Therefore, they should have the analystical and sacrifice capabilities of Sting SF 2.0 (beta):

fern · Post by **fern** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:56 pm

Old CSTAl has a penchant for that, but sometimes lose the track. Yesterday I got a draw from it after trying to kill me with a bishop sacrifice only to see that my exact replicas left him naked. But it found a repletion check to draw.

Anyway, enormously interesting and funny game

Fern

Ferdy · Post by **Ferdy** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:48 am

Different styles? yes should be spartan

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