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Thinker 5.2K is released....
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:59 pm
by Dr.Wael Deeb
_Fixed the incorrect lazy evaluation.
_Made the node splits optional in parallel search versions (enabled _through the "splitnodes=1" command-line option).
_Fixed the processor detection in parallel search versions.
_Fixed the issue with running on Windows 2000.
_Fixed the slow load time in Linux Wine.
Re: Thinker 5.2K is released....
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:25 pm
by royb
Is Thinker a UCI engine? I cannot make it run under SCID on Linux.
Thx,
Roy
Re: Thinker 5.2K is released....
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:32 pm
by Damir
But no fix UCI or ponder issue
Re: Thinker 5.2K is released....
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:43 pm
by Dr.Wael Deeb
royb wrote:Is Thinker a UCI engine? I cannot make it run under SCID on Linux.
Thx,
Roy
It's a winboard engine only....
Re: Thinker 5.2K is released....
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:44 pm
by Kurt Utzinger
An engine missing the most important analysis mode
is worthless for me.
Kurt
Re: Thinker 5.2K is released....
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:47 pm
by Dr.Wael Deeb
Kurt Utzinger wrote:An engine missing the most important analysis mode
is worthless for me.
Kurt
It has an ultra attractive style of playing the game of chess,a free 2800+ chess engine....that does matter for me
Re: Thinker 5.2K is released....
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:50 pm
by Martin Thoresen
Kurt Utzinger wrote:An engine missing the most important analysis mode
is worthless for me.
Kurt
I do agree about this, it's very interesting playingwise but worthless since it's impossible to get any information out of it.
Re: Thinker 5.2K is released....
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:57 pm
by Dr.Wael Deeb
Martin T wrote:Kurt Utzinger wrote:An engine missing the most important analysis mode
is worthless for me.
Kurt
I do agree about this, it's very interesting playingwise but worthless since it's impossible to get any information out of it.
The author had elaborated several times here in the forum regarding this issue....he has nothing to hide,it's just that the current architecture of the engine doesn't allow the analysing feature to work probably....simple as that
Re: Thinker 5.2K is released....
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:44 am
by Tony Thomas
Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:Martin T wrote:Kurt Utzinger wrote:An engine missing the most important analysis mode
is worthless for me.
Kurt
I do agree about this, it's very interesting playingwise but worthless since it's impossible to get any information out of it.
The author had elaborated several times here in the forum regarding this issue....he has nothing to hide,it's just that the current architecture of the engine doesn't allow the analysing feature to work probably....simple as that
Most of the people who complains doesnt even analyze with anything other than Rybka.
Re: Thinker 5.2K is released....
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:45 am
by Dr.Wael Deeb
Tony Thomas wrote:Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:Martin T wrote:Kurt Utzinger wrote:An engine missing the most important analysis mode
is worthless for me.
Kurt
I do agree about this, it's very interesting playingwise but worthless since it's impossible to get any information out of it.
The author had elaborated several times here in the forum regarding this issue....he has nothing to hide,it's just that the current architecture of the engine doesn't allow the analysing feature to work probably....simple as that
Most of the people who complains doesnt even analyze with anything other than Rybka.
This is very true Tony.very true....