Some Questions About Stockfish 1.8 Engine

[David Schumaker]

Will somebody please answer my Stockfish 1.8 engine question? Please take a look at the following link to know what I am talking about.

http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35822

I just want to know if Zugzwang detection is turned on or not by default. Seems to me that maybe some 20 to 30 elo points could be gained by turning it on. Does anybody else have similar results with this engine?

Thanks..........................................................

[zullil]

Will somebody please answer my Stockfish 1.8 engine question? Please take a look at the following link to know what I am talking about.

http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35822

I just want to know if Zugzwang detection is turned on or not by default. Seems to me that maybe some 20 to 30 elo points could be gained by turning it on. Does anybody else have similar results with this engine?

Thanks..........................................................

I believe it is on by default in 1.8. See http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 32&start=0

[Paloma]

Hi Louis,

how exactly setup you a position to stockfish and run it in command line?

With crafty i can do this, search around in this forum helps me to do that.

But with stockfish i'm not able to run a position with time set? (e.g. for 300sec)

I found out this:

setoption name UCI_AnalyseMode value true
position fen 6rk/1pp2prp/p2pnb1q/4p3/1PP1Ppb1/3P1N1P/PB3PP1/1R1B1QRK b - - 0 25
setoption name Hash value 256
setoption name Threads value 1
setoption name Ponder value false

then:
go depth 18 -> it works

or:
go infinite -> it works, but difficult to stop this, type stop or quit helps not, i found out first ESC then type quit.
Gives there an easier way?

Now my problem:
I'm not able to run Stockfish with time limit:
st 300 doesn't work
Time set 300 doesn't work

Can you explain me this and another parameter?


For Crafty it works so:

White(1): setboard 2rr4/p5kp/1n1Np3/2p2p2/8/2RR4/PP3PPP/6K1 b - - 1 24
Black(1): st 300
search time set to 300.00. (300sec.)

regards

[zullil]

Hi Louis,

how exactly setup you a position to stockfish and run it in command line?

But with stockfish i'm not able to run a position with time set? (e.g. for 300sec)

I found out this:

setoption name UCI_AnalyseMode value true
position fen 6rk/1pp2prp/p2pnb1q/4p3/1PP1Ppb1/3P1N1P/PB3PP1/1R1B1QRK b - - 0 25
setoption name Hash value 256
setoption name Threads value 1
setoption name Ponder value false

Try

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go movetime 300000

(The UCI protocol specifies that movetime is given in milliseconds.)

[Paloma]

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go movetime 300000

Many thanks Louis,

but where is a review, a _command synopsis_ ?

i tried:
help stockfish-18-64-ja
stockfish-18-64-ja help
stockfish-18-64-ja -help
stockfish-18-64-ja /help
stockfish-18-64-ja /?

nothing helps

[zullil]

The commands you are entering are UCI commands. You can read here:

http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/UCIProtocol.html

[Paloma]

Ah i got it.

Thanks again