Critter 0.52 available

[swami]

Hi Richard,

Is MP release of Critter in the works?

[rvida]

Hi,
I had some problems with Critter running inside Shredder 12 GUI. First I saw very bad results. Then I had a look at the games (played on different pcs). All look the same:
Critter always displays a 0.00 eval. I had this problem not in Arena 2.01. Any ideas what happens??

Hi,
unfortunately I dont have Shredder 12 GUI, but a friend of mine has. I will investigate the issue tomorrow. (just need to figure out how to RDP-connect to his PC)

Richard

[rvida]

Hi Richard,

Is MP release of Critter in the works?

Yes, MP version should be ready sometimes around april this year. Maybe even sooner, but dont hold your breath.

Richard

[swami]

Hi Richard,

Is MP release of Critter in the works?

Yes, MP version should be ready sometimes around april this year. Maybe even sooner, but dont hold your breath.

Richard

Thanks, Richard. Looking forward to having it in my collection!

[Andre]

I tested it as well and I can confirm that in Shredder GUI, Critter always shows 0.00

[Graham Banks]

This only goes to show again that there are bugs in the Shredder 12 GUI. I am just running a Critter 0.52 64-bit tournament here under Fritz9 and I have not noticed any problems.

Ray reports that the same problem occurs under the Shredder 11 GUI.

[alpha123]

Really? I never get the problem under the Shredder 12 GUI (I don't think....) Critter just offers a lot of draws in the endgame.

Peter

[El Gringo]

Hi,

I have the same problem here under S12 Gui...
Also there seems to be a problem with time management when playing 40
moves in x minutes it uses al lot off time and then play the last moves very quick, sometimes it ruines a good position then.

Best
Johan
CEGT member

[rvida]

Hi,

It is indeed a bug in Critter. When not in multi-pv mode, it is erroneously sending UCI strings like "info multipv 0 depth 2 seldepth 2 nodes 41 nps 0 hashfull 0 score cp 7 pv g1f3 g8f6"

No idea why Shredder interprets this as draw offer.

Fixed version URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?gzgbyn3z2yz

Richard

[Werner]

Hi,
it must be more than only a display problem. See here my result under Shredder GUI:

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1   Deep Sjeng 3.0 w32 1CPU  +13/-0/=37 63.00%   31.5/50
2   Critter 0.52 x64         +0/-13/=37 37.00%   18.5/50

Critter had 0 wins!!

Now the same match, same openings under Arena 2.01:

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1   Critter 0.52 x64         2200  +20/-14/=16 56.00%   28.0/50
2   Deep Sjeng3 .0 w32 1CPU  2200  +14/-20/=16 44.00%   22.0/50

This is more than coincidence - here 56% and before 37%

Werner