Critter goes SMP (version 0.60 is released)

[Martin Thoresen]

Hello Richard!

Looking forward to test your engine.

Here's your new beauty in action:

[Elorejano]

Hi, Richard!
Why Critter needs gtb.dll?
In uci options seems that gtb use are not allowed..
Are there any site to download gtb.dll?
Or are in alpha state?
Thanks in advance

[rvida]

Any plans for a linux compile? I - and I bet many more people here - would love a linux version. (Or maybe the source...)

There is some unportable windows specific code which needs to be rewritten first (mostly the threading stuff). But the windows compile runs just fine under linux + wine.

Richard

[rvida]

Hi, Richard!
Why Critter needs gtb.dll?
In uci options seems that gtb use are not allowed..
Are there any site to download gtb.dll?
Or are in alpha state?
Thanks in advance

During development I experimented a bit with gaviota tablebases. I built a custom dll from Miguel's probing code sources. It is currently in experimental stage and tb probes are done only at the root anyway. I decided to switch it off for the official release and there is no UCI option to enable it nor is the dll included with the download. By accident the DLL loading code stayed in, hence you can see the message "GTB dll not found" during startup. But this does not affect anything, you can safely ignore this for now.

In the next release it will be fully functional and documented.

Richard

[nepossiver]

Any plans for a linux compile? I - and I bet many more people here - would love a linux version. (Or maybe the source...)

There is some unportable windows specific code which needs to be rewritten first (mostly the threading stuff). But the windows compile runs just fine under linux + wine.

Richard

You may want to look at Michel van der Bergh modifications of Toga - he added some code to port back Toga to linux. It is GPL'ed, but might give you some ideas even if you don't want to use the code directly. It was simple stuff, if I recall it correctly.

I use wine - indeed, it works very well for most engines - but I prefer native linux versions.

[Elorejano]

Thanks Richard!
It will be the best idea
Regards

[AdminX]

Thanks, Nice work ...

Blitz 5m

Q9000
Fritz 12 GUI
Mybook 12
2 Cores Each
1024 Hash
Ponder On

Critter 0.60 64bit
+12/=3/-10 54.00% 13.5 / 25

Deep Fritz 12
+10/=3/-12 46.00% 11.5 / 25

(25 Games)

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Thanks, Nice work ...

Blitz 5m

Q9000
Fritz 12 GUI
Mybook 12
2 Cores Each
1024 Hash
Ponder On

Critter 0.60 64bit
+12/=3/-10 54.00% 13.5 / 25

Deep Fritz 12
+10/=3/-12 46.00% 11.5 / 25

(25 Games)

I'd say amazing
Dr.D

[swami]

Single CPU. O/P from STS Stat 2.5:

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	|  STS1	|  STS2	|  STS3	|  STS4	|  STS5	|  STS6	|  STS7	|  STS8	|  STS9	|  STS10	|
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Critter_0.60_32bit	|    86	|    78	|    69	|    80	|    82	|    70	|    66	|    64	|    67	|    79	|
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Grade	|    S	|    A	|    B+	|    A+	|    A+	|    A-	|    B+	|    B	|    B+	|    A	|
Score / 1000	|    906	|    802	|    821	|    864	|    868	|    840	|    737	|    730	|    761	|    847	|
Grade	|    S	|    A+	|    A+	|    S	|    S	|    A+	|    A-	|    A-	|    A	|    A+	|
Best Move :  741 / 1000  74.1 %  Grade : A-
Total :           8176 / 10000  81.76 %  Grade : A+
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Critter 0.60 now replaced Doch as #1.

Critter 0.42 was the last tested engine which had 696 and a rank of #3

[Zagalo]

UCI Engines Ligue:
Komodo 1.0 2747, Critter 0.60 2715, Spark 0.3a 2678

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/lefouduroi/ ... ci/uel.htm