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First of all I want to say a BIG THANK YOU to Nguyen Hong Pham for developing this really great chess GUI! At the moment I'm only missing one feature - maybe it is already implemented and I don't know how to use it: Is it possible to play the same engine tournament on more than just one computer? I ...

Hi Clemens, Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 (or higher) is the minimum requirement for Stockfish MPI. It won't work on Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2. You have to start it with mpiexec -hosts n name-of-host1 name-of-host2 name-of-host3 name-of-hostn name-of-the-stockfish-cluster.executable where...

First of all: Thanks to komodoslash001 for compiling! Unfortunately it doesn't work. If you start it with someting like: "mpiexec -hosts 2 host1 host2 /path/to/stockfish-executable" then Stockfish starts on both hosts but the two processes don't communicate with each other. Maybe there is still some...

You can download the version modified by tcec devel team. It implemented the feature you need First of all: Thank you for compiling the latest version! And finally a question: Where can I find / download the modified version you wrote about? I'd be also interested in interrupting / resuming tournam...

Thank you very much for this nice Christmas present! I always liked Fizbo's unique playing style and now it has become VERY strong also! Can't wait for testing it.

Best regards
Timo

Hi Peter, here are the results: TC: 30m+5s Texel107-Cluster [T60] - Texel107-12C: 41.5 - 28.5 (70: +13, =57, -0) PGN TC: 10m+3s Texel107-Cluster [T60] - Texel107-12C: 111 - 69 (180: +43, =136, -1) PGN Of course too few games to make clear statements, but it seems that Texel scales well on 60 cores c...

Hi Peter, this is excellent news! Thank you so much for the new Texel package! I think this is one of most interesting engine release since years, especially for people interested in cluster-solutions. Since the publication of Kai Himstedt's cluster-version of Toga there has never been any release o...

Ilari, thank you very much for the quick fix!

Best regards
Timo

Hi Ilari, thank you very much for the new release! I tested it and possibly found a bug: Engines don't switch the sides any more if you set up a tournament with >2 participants. Example 1: cutechess-cli.exe -tournament gauntlet -engine conf="Komodo" -engine conf="Gull" -engine conf="Stockfish" -each...

Hi Harm Geert, this is an excellent idea to build such a general adapter like you described it! I spent some time experimenting with Kai's implementation "GridChess" two or three years ago. Actually there is a lot of potential in the idea of optimistic pondering. But Kai is very short on time these ...