Critte 0.90 released

[beachknight]

wow, news of the day!

[meschle]

Thanks richard for an update to one of my favorite engines. Cheers!

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi there,

1% = around 7 ELO
If 10% more = around 70 ELO!

WOW
I will test it soon in SWCR.

Thanks Richard!

Best
Frank

[zullil]

I take it that the source code is private. Is there any way you can produce a Mac OS X binary?

Thanks.

[Houdini]

Thank you, Critter is a very stable and strong engine.
Keep up the good work.

[overtond]

I thought the 60% meant C0.90 scores 6/10 and C0.80 scores 4/10 - on that basis I would make it around 60 elo difference - is my assumption incorrect?

[poisonedpawn]

wow, this engine is very strong. although it is early days and can't be seen as in any way conclusive but in an engine match i am currently running it is more than holding its own against rybka 4. so far it is all square after 10 (4'2") games but critter could well be ahead and it is rybka that is fighting hard for the draws so far. great work.

[Christian Goralski]

Hi Richard,

Gaviota Table Base support doesn`t works here with the new version!
With the old one (Critter 0.80) Gabiota Table Base support works here without any problems under Chessbase GUI.

Sincerely Christian Goralski

[IWB]

hi Christian,

Did you copy the dll into the Critter folder? I forgot that first and could not even see the Tbs path to the GTB in the UCI options ...

Bye
Ingo

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi,

10% more in a rating list = ~ 70 - 75 ELO.
But the programmer wrote 60% vs. the preview version.

10% more vs. the preview version isn't general 70 ELO points more vs. many others opponents.

Very interesting!
Could be the same Level SF 1.9.1 has.

I will test the engine via Round Robin on weekend.

Tested preview version in SWCR:

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Rank Name                          Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws 
  14 Critter 0.80 x64             2841   16   16  1414   68%  2703   32% +  30 to Version 0.70 x64
  18 Critter 0.80 w32             2815   18   18  1040   67%  2695   37% +  39 to Version 0.70 w32
  19 Critter 0.70 x64             2811   20   20   880   65%  2706   38% + 106 to Version 0.60 x64
  29 Critter 0.70 w32             2776   19   19   920   61%  2702   39% +  89 to Version 0.60 w32
  47 Critter 0.60 x64             2705   20   20   840   50%  2701   38%
  51 Critter 0.60 w32             2687   19   19   920   50%  2688   39% +  74 to Version 0.52b w32
  85 Critter 0.52b w32            2613   18   18  1040   38%  2698   37%

Best
Frank