Any success with these engines

[beachknight]

longest game with Cassandre was only 53 moves..Do you play with increments as well?? Did it lose on time way before 50 moves?

TC was 1+1.

Yes. Longest game was around 40 moves, but
Cassandre lost the most games before the move 20.

Best,

[Tony Thomas]

longest game with Cassandre was only 53 moves..Do you play with increments as well?? Did it lose on time way before 50 moves?

TC was 1+1.

Yes. Longest game was around 40 moves, but
Cassandre lost the most games before the move 20.

Best,

Welcome to the club then Harun. I was one of the few who played 1+1 a while back, everyone picked on me for it too, then Swami started. I guess you started around the same time...

[Tony Thomas]

New to the list is Sharpchess 2 2.52 from Peter Hughes...

Update 21, Tony's no play list

AKIBA 0.0 (version number not known) (moves too slow and loses on time)
Alice 0.35?? (frequent time losses, could be a cygwin problem)
Animats Chess 1.1.1.1 (not suitable for tournaments)
Apilchess 1.05 rev.1b (eternal pondering)
Arics 0.95 (does not move)
Bachess 1.3 (always runs out of time)
Babychess 11.1 (frequent crashes, illegal moves etc) Later versions not available..
Blitzer 2.0 (unexplainable time losses)
Brama 051204 (time losses)
Crux 5.0m (crashes about 10% of the time, decently strong engine)
Dendron 0.42 (frequent illegal moves)
El-Turco 0.93 (crashes)
Fianchetto (doesnt move in some games)
iChess(I just cant get it to work)
Jaksah 1.01 (time losses)
Joanna 2002 1.0
Joana DC by Juan Pablo Menoza (crashes, and subsequent time losses)
Kace 0.8.1 (time losses)
Knightmare BP (does not follow 3/0 or 1/1 time controls)
Lamosca 0.10 (time losses)
MFchess 1.1 (time losses)
Muriel aka KDL chess 0.71 (time losses, could be hardware specific as others arent having problems)
NSVchess 0.14 (illegal move during compatibility test)
Sharpchess2 2.52 (time losses)
Simontacchi 1.8 decepticon (time losses)
Talvemanni 0.0.1 (does not follow any of the time controls xm+1sec, game in x or 40 moves in Xminutes)
Trynyty 1.0 (bugs that I am scared to explain)
Youk 1.05 (during compatibility test it resigned against me in a fairly equal position)
Zchess 2 from Eamonn Ramsay (loses on time, 100% of the time)
Zephyr 0.61 (time losses)

[Tony Thomas]

New to the list is Mooboo 0.4e, according to Arena it lost 2 games due to illegal moves and one game on time out of 14 games. Good thing that Sorgenkind is a great engine. I used the 64MB hash version by the way..

Update 22, Tony's no play list

AKIBA 0.0 (version number not known) (moves too slow and loses on time)
Alice 0.35?? (frequent time losses, could be a cygwin problem)
Animats Chess 1.1.1.1 (not suitable for tournaments)
Apilchess 1.05 rev.1b (eternal pondering)
Arics 0.95 (does not move)
Bachess 1.3 (always runs out of time)
Babychess 11.1 (frequent crashes, illegal moves etc) Later versions not available..
Blitzer 2.0 (unexplainable time losses)
Brama 051204 (time losses)
Crux 5.0m (crashes about 10% of the time, decently strong engine)
Dendron 0.42 (frequent illegal moves)
El-Turco 0.93 (crashes)
Fianchetto (doesnt move in some games)
iChess(I just cant get it to work)
Jaksah 1.01 (time losses)
Joanna 2002 1.0
Joana DC by Juan Pablo Menoza (crashes, and subsequent time losses)
Kace 0.8.1 (time losses)
Knightmare BP (does not follow 3/0 or 1/1 time controls)
Lamosca 0.10 (time losses)
MFchess 1.1 (time losses)
Mooboo 0.4e (illegal moves, time losses)
Muriel aka KDL chess 0.71 (time losses, could be hardware specific as others arent having problems)
NSVchess 0.14 (illegal move during compatibility test)
Sharpchess2 2.52 (time losses)
Simontacchi 1.8 decepticon (time losses)
Talvemanni 0.0.1 (does not follow any of the time controls xm+1sec, game in x or 40 moves in Xminutes)
Trynyty 1.0 (bugs that I am scared to explain)
Youk 1.05 (during compatibility test it resigned against me in a fairly equal position)
Zchess 2 from Eamonn Ramsay (loses on time, 100% of the time)
Zephyr 0.61 (time losses)[/quote]

[Tony Thomas]

As Harun predicted, Pulchess failed my compatibility test, I tried all the possible time controls against it. It doesnt seem to follow any in a proper manner.
Update 23, Tony's no play list

AKIBA 0.0 (version number not known) (moves too slow and loses on time)
Alice 0.35?? (frequent time losses, could be a cygwin problem)
Animats Chess 1.1.1.1 (not suitable for tournaments)
Apilchess 1.05 rev.1b (eternal pondering)
Arics 0.95 (does not move)
Bachess 1.3 (always runs out of time)
Babychess 11.1 (frequent crashes, illegal moves etc) Later versions not available..
Blitzer 2.0 (unexplainable time losses)
Brama 051204 (time losses)
Crux 5.0m (crashes about 10% of the time, decently strong engine)
Dendron 0.42 (frequent illegal moves)
El-Turco 0.93 (crashes)
Fianchetto (doesnt move in some games)
iChess(I just cant get it to work)
Jaksah 1.01 (time losses)
Joanna 2002 1.0
Joana DC by Juan Pablo Menoza (crashes, and subsequent time losses)
Kace 0.8.1 (time losses)
Knightmare BP (does not follow 3/0 or 1/1 time controls)
Lamosca 0.10 (time losses)
MFchess 1.1 (time losses)
Mooboo 0.4e (illegal moves, time losses)
Muriel aka KDL chess 0.71 (time losses, could be hardware specific as others arent having problems)
NSVchess 0.14 (illegal move during compatibility test)
Pulchess 0.2i (doesnt follow any time controls)
Sharpchess2 2.52 (time losses)
Simontacchi 1.8 decepticon (time losses)
Talvemanni 0.0.1 (does not follow any of the time controls xm+1sec, game in x or 40 moves in Xminutes)
Trynyty 1.0 (bugs that I am scared to explain)
Youk 1.05 (during compatibility test it resigned against me in a fairly equal position)
Zchess 2 from Eamonn Ramsay (loses on time, 100% of the time)
Zephyr 0.61 (time losses)

[beachknight]

Well, my further predictions from the bottom of my current rating list:

-- ECE 0.1

-- DeepDuke 1.1 JA

-- ACE 0.1

-- Omar 3.1

-- Chads Chess 0.15

-- PreChess 0.7.8

-- Geko 0.43

-- QChess 1.02a

-- Gray matter

-- TonysChess 0.02

-- Neophyte 0.1

-- Belofte 2.8

-- Cheops 1.1

Best,

[Tony Thomas]

Notes, Chad's chess doesnt play incremental time controls...

You should play with ECE 0.21, its a very stable engine..

Tony's chess doesnt support fixed time controls yet...

Ace works fine here...

Qchess loses on time, but it is able to win games, so its just a time management issue and the author got many other engines out so I am not adding that engine to the list...

I must look at Cheops once again, I dont think I ever got it to work, and I am surprised that its not on my list..

Belofte works fine here..

Greko plays too fast, I dont see how it would lose any games on time..

I havent played with the others yet.


By the way, are you going to vote for me?

Later
Tony

[beachknight]

Geko, not GreKo, Tony. GreKo plays fine.

Best,

PS : I predicted that you will say that
ECE 0.2.1 plays smoothly to that I agree too. LOL.

[beachknight]

Chad's chess doesnt play incremental time controls...

did not know. I should re-test Chad's Chess then.

Best,

[beachknight]

By the way, are you going to vote for me?

This is a very delicate issue. I am not even sure whether
I am eligible to vote. Has voting process started? Who
are the nominees?

Best,

PS : Please pm me about some private engines
that I want to have and test. LOL.