Dirty 24APR2011 released

[Amstaff]

Hello, I can't seem to get Dirty to install under Arena. Doing the usual stuff, unzip, install new engine, but when I click on Dirty.exe, no window comes up asking winboard/uci, etc.?
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Gerald

[Andres Valverde]

Hello, I can't seem to get Dirty to install under Arena. Doing the usual stuff, unzip, install new engine, but when I click on Dirty.exe, no window comes up asking winboard/uci, etc.?
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Gerald

Arena recognizes it an install the engine as "Dirty" (Winboard) silently , check your engine list and it must be there.

If it doesn't work, install hte engine via Engines>Manage (F11) and then clicking the button "New"

[Andres Valverde]

Hi Andres,

congratulations for this new version. I have always used dirty in my tests because is a reliable and very good engine. Will look at this new version.

Regards
Fermin

Thanks Fermin, and this version has been tested intensively with your FSTM manager

BTW : The tourney editor ....

[Amstaff]

Andres, thanks the F-11 process worked.
Gerald

[Andres Valverde]

Tried this one in console mode :

dirty -hash 1024 -degbb c:\eveann\egbb5men\ -dcache 256 -egbb5men -log
Dirty Apr 24 2011
Copyright (C) 2008 Pradyumna Kannan, Andres Valverde & Fonzy Bluemers

Dirty is provided "as-is" without any express or implied warranty. In no event
will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use
of Dirty.

EgbbProbe 3.3 by Daniel Shawul
Cache Size = 256 Mb (33123 entries)
Egbbs loaded !

Not sure at this momment if 2048 hash is supported (here it crashed as I have not so many RAM)...can you try with 512 or even 1024?

The 32-bit works with max 1024, while the 64-bit works with max 2048.

I can't do anything in console mode, I get this no matter what I type:

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dirty -hash 512 -degbb c:\egtb\bitbases\ -dcache 256 -egbb5men -log
Error (unknown command): dirty -hash 1024 -degbb c:\egtb\bitbases\ -dcache 256 -
egbb5men -log

Same with 32-bit build...

Best,
Martin

Martin, you are writting that command line _INSIDE_ the program launched in console mode, so it returns that message error.

You may run this command from a Windows console.

[UncombedCoconut]

I can't do anything in console mode, I get this no matter what I type:

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dirty -hash 512 -degbb c:\egtb\bitbases\ -dcache 256 -egbb5men -log
Error (unknown command): dirty -hash 1024 -degbb c:\egtb\bitbases\ -dcache 256 -
egbb5men -log

Type that into the Windows command prompt (after you "cd" into the engine's parent folder, and replacing "dirty" with the name of the .exe if needed), not into the engine.

At least I am assuming you've made that mistake because you're not getting a long-winded error message like "The name specified is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." I apologize if I'm mistaken.

Once you get the command right, you can write it (using notepad) inside a .bat file in the same folder. Intelligent GUIs will be able to load the .bat file as an engine. (ChessBase GUIs are an exception.)

[Martin Thoresen]

Ah yes you are right, I mixed up command prompt and console mode...

Anyway, here are the result:

64-bit

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E:\Engines\Dirty\240411>Dirty64.exe -hash 512 -degbb c:\egtb\bitbases\ -dcache 2
56 -egbb5men -log
Dirty Apr 24 2011
Copyright (C) 2008 Pradyumna Kannan, Andres Valverde & Fonzy Bluemers

Dirty is provided "as-is" without any express or implied warranty. In no event
will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use
of Dirty.

EgbbProbe not Loaded!

32-bit:

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E:\Engines\Dirty\240411>Dirty.exe -hash 512 -degbb c:\egtb\bitbases\ -dcache 256
 -egbb5men -log
Dirty Apr 24 2011
Copyright (C) 2008 Pradyumna Kannan, Andres Valverde & Fonzy Bluemers

Dirty is provided "as-is" without any express or implied warranty. In no event
will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use
of Dirty.

EgbbProbe 3.3 by Daniel Shawul
Egbbs loaded !

edit: I found the problem. I had to rename the egbbdll64.dll to egbbdll.dll and then the 64-bit version works:

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E:\Engines\Dirty\240411>Dirty64.exe -hash 512 -degbb c:\egtb\bitbases\ -dcache 2
56 -egbb5men -log
Dirty Apr 24 2011
Copyright (C) 2008 Pradyumna Kannan, Andres Valverde & Fonzy Bluemers

Dirty is provided "as-is" without any express or implied warranty. In no event
will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use
of Dirty.

EgbbProbe 3.3 by Daniel Shawul
Egbbs loaded !

[Jamal Bubker]

thanks Andres and Pradu