Fire 6 is available!

[kranium]

Thanks, Norman.

I'll test Fire under Windows as soon as possible (it doesn't seem to work under Wine, unfortunately). And a great thank you for your continuous efforts to give us a fully featured, quality free engine in the last few years.

Hi Boban-
Not running under Wine is disappointing...
Have you tried the 'no popcnt' executables as well?

[matejst]

Yes, of course, but it doesn't work either. But then, Fire 64-bit works fine under Windows 8.

[MikeB]

https://chesslogik.wixsite.com/fire/download

Thanks ! Now its time for a new engine tournament

Clemens Keck

Good timing I guess..I actually wanted to wait a few more days to release it, until the Houdini excitement faded a bit,
but someone found and shared an archive of test compiles I had temporarily placed up on chesslogik, LOL, so I had no choice but to go now.

Sorry no Haswell compile...
and it's Windows only.

Thanks Norman, Fire is a very interesting engine and is one of my favorites.

Best Regards,

Michael

[MikeB]

Thanks, Norman.

I'll test Fire under Windows as soon as possible (it doesn't seem to work under Wine, unfortunately). And a great thank you for your continuous efforts to give us a fully featured, quality free engine in the last few years.

Hi Boban-
Not running under Wine is disappointing...
Have you tried the 'no popcnt' executables as well?

I have it running under macOS wine v2.02 , but as soon as send the command "UCI" , it no longer responds.

So of course usage GUI usage will not work under wine currently.

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Fire 6 w32 popcnt
go depth 15
info time 210 nodes 94336 nps 568633 tbhits 0 depth 8 multipv 1 score cp 24 pv g1f3 e7e5 e2e4 b8c6 b1c3 d7d6 f1b5 a7a6
info time 366 nodes 201744 nps 697740 tbhits 0 depth 9 multipv 1 score cp 32 pv d2d4 g8f6 c2c4 c7c5 d4c5 d8a5 c1d2 a5c5 e2e3
info time 553 nodes 337766 nps 773150 tbhits 0 depth 10 multipv 1 score cp 28 pv e2e4 e7e5 g1f3 g8f6 b1c3 f8b4 a2a3 b4c3 d2c3 b8c6
info time 754 nodes 495121 nps 831214 tbhits 0 depth 11 multipv 1 score cp 43 pv e2e4 d7d5 e4d5 d8d5 b1c3 d5e6 d1e2 e6e2 f1e2 e7e6 g1f3
info time 1318 nodes 923871 nps 887297 tbhits 0 depth 11 multipv 1 score cp 58 pv e2e4 d7d5 e4d5 d8d5 b1c3 d5e6 g1e2 c7c5 d2d4 c5d4 d1d4
info time 1753 nodes 1260287 nps 910039 tbhits 0 depth 12 multipv 1 score cp 41 pv e2e4 e7e5 g1f3 b8c6 d2d4 e5d4 f3d4 d8h4 b1c3 f8c5 g2g3 h4f6
info time 3351 nodes 2450139 nps 925527 tbhits 0 depth 13 multipv 1 score cp 13 pv d2d4 d7d5 c1f4 g8f6 e2e3 e7e6 g1f3 b8d7 h2h3 c7c5 b1c3 h7h6 a2a3
info time 5028 nodes 3673107 nps 924722 tbhits 0 depth 14 multipv 1 score cp 34 pv e2e4 e7e5 g1f3 b8c6 b1c3 g8f6 f1b5 c6d4 f3d4 e5d4 e4e5 d4c3 e5f6 d8f6
info time 6567 nodes 4847097 nps 934302 tbhits 0 depth 15 multipv 1 score cp 26 pv e2e4 e7e5 g1f3 b8c6 b1c3 g8f6 f1b5 c6d4 f3d4 e5d4 e4e5 d4c3 e5f6 d8f6 d2c3
bestmove e2e4 ponder e7e5
uci
id name Fire 6 w32 popcnt
id author Norman Schmidt
option name Hash type spin default 128 min 1 max 2048
option name Threads type spin default 1 min 1 max 64
option name MultiPV type spin default 1 min 1 max 64
option name Contempt type spin default 0 min -100 max 100
option name Ponder type check default false
option name UCI_Chess960 type check default false
option name Syzygy50MoveRule type check default true
option name SyzygyPath type string default <empty>
option name SyzygyProbeDepth type spin default 8 min 1 max 64
option name SyzygyProbeLimit type spin default 6 min 0 max 6
uciok
go depth 15
&#91;no response from engine&#93;

[Gusev]

Thanks, Norm!!!

https://chesslogik.wixsite.com/fire/download

Thanks ! Now its time for a new engine tournament

Clemens Keck

Good timing I guess..I actually wanted to wait a few more days to release it, until the Houdini excitement faded a bit,
but someone found and shared an archive of test compiles I had temporarily placed up on chesslogik, LOL, so I had no choice but to go now.

Sorry no Haswell compile...
and it's Windows only.

[drj4759]

Not running well under Linux/Wine.

The best way to find out is to run it yourself with Linux It was a problem with Fire 5 and now it is worse.

[Joerg Oster]

https://chesslogik.wixsite.com/fire/download

Thanks ! Now its time for a new engine tournament

Clemens Keck

Good timing I guess..I actually wanted to wait a few more days to release it, until the Houdini excitement faded a bit,
but someone found and shared an archive of test compiles I had temporarily placed up on chesslogik, LOL, so I had no choice but to go now.

Sorry no Haswell compile...
and it's Windows only.

Is this a problem with Fire 6 running under Linux+Wine?
Or does this also happen under Windows?

Fire 6 is showing a bogus pv after reaching a mate position. (Mate after white's Ne4f6+)

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position fen r2r1n2/pp2bk2/2p1p2p/3q4/3PN1QP/2P3R1/P4PP1/5RK1 w - - 0 1
go depth 13
info time 5 nodes 3848 nps 974400 tbhits 0 depth 8 multipv 1 score mate 4 pv g4g7 f7e8 g7e7 e8e7 g3g7 e7e8 e4f6 e7e6
info time 10 nodes 4632 nps 586400 tbhits 0 depth 9 multipv 1 score mate 4 pv g4g7 f7e8 g7e7 e8e7 g3g7 e7e8 e4f6 e7e6 e2e3
info time 16 nodes 5456 nps 431687 tbhits 0 depth 10 multipv 1 score mate 4 pv g4g7 f7e8 g7e7 e8e7 g3g7 e7e8 e4f6 e7e6 e2e3 b8c6
info time 21 nodes 6506 nps 392190 tbhits 0 depth 11 multipv 1 score mate 4 pv g4g7 f7e8 g7e7 e8e7 g3g7 e7e8 e4f6 e7e6 e2e3 b8c6 h2h3
info time 27 nodes 7914 nps 371037 tbhits 0 depth 11 multipv 1 score mate 4 pv g4g7 f7e8 g7e7 e8e7 g3g7 e7e8 e4f6 e7e6 e2e3 b8c6 h2h3
info time 33 nodes 9150 nps 351000 tbhits 0 depth 12 multipv 1 score mate 4 pv g4g7 f7e8 g7e7 e8e7 g3g7 e7e8 e4f6 e7e6 e2e3 b8c6 h2h3 f8d6
info time 39 nodes 11448 nps 371589 tbhits 0 depth 13 multipv 1 score mate 4 pv g4g7 f7e8 g7e7 e8e7 g3g7 e7e8 e4f6 e7e6 e2e3 b8c6 h2h3 f8d6 g2g3
bestmove g4g7 ponder f7e8

[kranium]

Is this a problem with Fire 6 running under Linux+Wine?
Or does this also happen under Windows?

Fire 6 is showing a bogus pv after reaching a mate position. (Mate after white's Ne4f6+)

No it's not just Linux, it's happening here under windows as well.
Thanks for pointing that out Joerg...

I'll spend some time this week looking into it

[kranium]

Is this a problem with Fire 6 running under Linux+Wine?
Or does this also happen under Windows?

Fire 6 is showing a bogus pv after reaching a mate position. (Mate after white's Ne4f6+)

No it's not just Linux, it's happening here under windows as well.
Thanks for pointing that out Joerg...

I'll spend some time this week looking into it

Hi guys, I've released Fire 6.1 (maintenance release: bugfix)
There are no other changes, and no change in playing strength.

http://www.chesslogik.com/downloads/Fire_6.1.7z

Thanks very much to Joerg for promptly bringing this to my attention.

Norm

[Marek Soszynski]

Fire 6.1 running on my Linux/Wine system. Thanks and hurrah!