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Here is a new tourney: # PLAYER : RATING ERROR POINTS PLAYED (%) W D L D(%) CFS(%) 1 OliThink 5.8.7 : 194 12 2253.5 3500 64.4 1493 1521 486 43.5 100 2 OliThink 5.8.6 : 153 12 2035.5 3500 58.2 1260 1551 689 44.3 99 3 OliThink 5.8.5 : 140 12 1963.0 3500 56.1 1185 1556 759 44.5 100 4 OliThink 5.8.4 : 1...

Thanks for fixing it so quickly. Of course, also thanks for such an interesting project. Thank you very much for your help! @Everyone for OliThink 5.8.7: Please use the Windows executable build on 17. Oct 2020 (not 16.) when you want to use ponder/analyze. I have another nice win against Rybka 2.3....

Since OlIThink 5.8.4 it's genereally not possible to Ponder, Analyze or Interrupt the Search with any ChessGUI in Windows . The cause is a change in the method to peek a key input, which seems not to be working for Chess Graphical Interfaces like Arena or Winboard. Linux and MacOSX work correctly. E...

The problem is related to pondering. I played some games between 5.8.0 and 5.8.7 with ponder on and book and without book and always time out. I played similar conditions with ponder off and always works fine. Thank you, this helps me a lot and I will have a look into it. Until the fix, playing wit...

1) Tournament is with pondering on. 2) Using the olibook.pgn that came with the distribution and both 5.8.0 and 5.8.7 make book moves. 3) Effectively it time out every game. With 5.8.0 and a few of the versions before that it was very rare to non-existent. 4) My observation is 2-5 moves out of the ...

I am seeing consistent time forfeit with 5.8.7 where OliThink plays a few moves and then times out while searching without making another move. I am using Arena 3.5.1 on Windows 10 playing tournament games at 5+1 seconds. The previous version I was using is 5.8.0 and it works very well. I see in th...

Hello together, Olithink 5.8.7 has been released. The size hasn't been increased, but the strength did: # PLAYER : RATING ERROR POINTS PLAYED (%) W D L D(%) CFS(%) 1 Weiss 1.0 : 68 16 834.5 1400 59.6 639 391 370 27.9 87 2 Murka 3 x64 : 56 16 810.0 1400 57.9 643 334 423 23.9 100 3 OliThink 5.8.7 : 0 ...

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Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:52 pm

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This happens with many older engines when I left chess programming in 2010.. They were beatable (at least by my chess engine OliThink) and fun. Now they are 300-500 ELO stronger, not beatable and boring. What happened?

I am weak at chess, I am interested in an engine with which will sacrifice a bit just to just charge down and get mate as quick as possible. Is there any engine which comes close to doing that ? You can use a medium strong engine like OliThink and start with an advantage, let's say the engine is on...

It would be great, Oliver, I'd appreciate that (pull request would be just awesome). Could you also post what the errors are? I have no idea what compilers are used on MacOS. As Jon said, "clang" is the typical MacOSX compiler, which is a more sophisticated compiler than gcc, but it should be 100% ...