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Well, run Fairy-Max from the command line, and type the following commands: protover 2 new level 40 5 0 time 10000 edit # Kh6 Pe7 c Ke6 . post go And tell me what you see. (The last 3 lines will do.) I didn't know the edit mode. Very powerful. :) Here is the result. # times @ 3338852951: real=2034 ...

Congratulations, it looks as you actually have fixed the castling issue. The linux executable you provide in your link is running now against OliPow 2.2.3 and there are no issues until now. Good! Thank you for the confirmation. 3) Sometimes, I am having problems interrupting cutechess-cli when hipp...

@hgm, OliverBr Thank you for the informations. Are you doing this on Windows or Linux? Only the Windows compile should expect the fmax.ini in the current directory; in Linux it expects it in /usr/local/share/games/fairymax/ . So perhaps it is using a different fmax.ini, with incompatible piece namin...

hgm wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 14, 2020 9:30 am

Do you have the entire game?

Here is another game (PGN attached).

Maybe I did something wrong when compiling Fairy-Max? I copied fmax.ini in the directory of the executable. I didn't install Fairy-Max. (I prefer to keep all the programs that I compiled myself in my own directories.)

I don't see how this could ever omit the promotion suffix. Even if the piecename[] table is not properly initialized (which depends on the variant definition in the fmax.ini file) it should print something. Thank you for your detailed answer. No, I didn't keep the game. I will make other tests, and...

Hello! I fixed the name issue for Hippocampe, and the issue of the missing promotion suffix. IIRC there is also a problem of illegal castling move (I am not sure, but I believe that the program doesn't check that the castling is not under attack): I will try to fix it later. Hi! The addition with t...

I have just pushed a new patch for Fairy-Max to my on-line repository. This should rigorously prevent any time losses, as it now will abort the search whenever it runs out of time. I set this 'cold-turkey timeout' at 3 times the nominal move time, which is now calculated as timeLeft/(movesLeft+2). ...

And there is a list of 26 candidates, quite interesting engines, which do compile on both Linux and MacOSX and are stable, but have some flaws, which should be repaired easily. hippocampe xboard* -2150 0.4.2 http://www.computer-chess.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=computer_chess:wiki:download:hippocam...

See this discussion:
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OliverBr wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 01, 2020 4:50 pm

I get some annoying messages with cutechess-cli:

I will probably not teach you something, but here is what I put at the end of my command line for cutechess-cli. It solves the problem of the annoying messages: and even better: