Fire 6 is available!

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Hi Krzysztof-

No need to change these, leave at default values.

Thank you for your answer.

[ernest]

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

PLEASE Norman !

Can you make it XP compatible
(or at least XP x64)

[kranium]

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

PLEASE Norman !

Can you make it XP compatible
(or at least XP x64)

Sorry about that Ernest, but Windows XP is 16 years old now...from 2001.
Please understand just how much effort it would be for me to setup a box with XP on it, and try to find out what the issue is.

Have you tried setting compatibility mode?
Right-click on the exe and choose Compatibility...

If this is of no help, may I kindly suggest you get a new PC (or a new OS)?

[jwes]

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

PLEASE Norman !

Can you make it XP compatible
(or at least XP x64)

Sorry about that Ernest, but Windows XP is 16 years old now...from 2001.
Please understand just how much effort it would be for me to setup a box with XP on it, and try to find out what the issue is.

Microsoft has a vm with xp preinstalled, so you could just download and run it.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... px?id=8002

[Dann Corbit]

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

PLEASE Norman !

Can you make it XP compatible
(or at least XP x64)

Sorry about that Ernest, but Windows XP is 16 years old now...from 2001.
Please understand just how much effort it would be for me to setup a box with XP on it, and try to find out what the issue is.

Microsoft has a vm with xp preinstalled, so you could just download and run it.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... px?id=8002

He could also simply target xp without having to have xp. Unfortunately, building for XP makes the project broken for important things like profile and code analysis.

[ernest]

Unfortunately, building for XP makes the project broken for important things like profile and code analysis.

Don't understand what you mean, Dann.
Almost every today's chess program is still able to run in XP.

[ernest]

Please understand just how much effort it would be for me to setup a box with XP on it, and try to find out what the issue is.

Have you tried setting compatibility mode?
Right-click on the exe and choose Compatibility...

Hi Norman !

Yes I know, starting with Fire 4, there was no longer XP compatibility.
Any idea what event could have trigged that ?

And I wonder why, since most other chess programs are still XP compatible.

Since you don't have an XP computer for testing, maybe if you find the time, you can send me a few test exes for me to test (preferably XP x64, no popcnt).

Note : of course I tried compatibility mode, no success...

[Modern Times]

If you're running XP, I think you just have to accept that some new programme releases won't work.

[Modern Times]

FRC Ratings list updated finally.

+45 Elo, a very nice improvement

http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404FRC/

[ernest]

This is very nice because Fire 6 understands something about chess.

[D]3r1r1k/3b2pp/1q5b/pP1Ppp2/R6P/2N3P1/1P2BP2/3Q1RK1 w - - 3 24 bm Rc4 with the plan to play Rc6

Hi Thomas,

Do you have an infinite analysis showing that Fire 6.1 likes Rc4 ?
At what depth ?