No Houdini personalities yet ?

[Chesstiger]

By the way: It makes really fun to see how the playing style of Houdini is changed when you alter the settings.

[Matthias Gemuh]

No Houdini personalities yet ?

I am surprised that no personality has yet been posted that kicks Houdini 1.5a and Houdini 2.0 around.

Thank you for the tool. It is awesome. Unfortunately, I haven't found a stronger config up to now. But I will continue testing.

I am quite convinced that 6471788975322020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020201E2228161C1E20 is stronger than default.

[David Dahlem]

No Houdini personalities yet ?

I am surprised that no personality has yet been posted that kicks Houdini 1.5a and Houdini 2.0 around.

Thank you for the tool. It is awesome. Unfortunately, I haven't found a stronger config up to now. But I will continue testing.

I am quite convinced that 6471788975322020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020201E2228161C1E20 is stronger than default.

Yes,i agree, but in my limited testing,

5D717974702A2020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020201E2228161C1E20

seems even stronger.

Regards
Dave

[David Dahlem]

No Houdini personalities yet ?

I am surprised that no personality has yet been posted that kicks Houdini 1.5a and Houdini 2.0 around.

Hi Matthias

I've noticed something with HoudiConfig. If i change Queen value to 1000 and save to .exe, when i load the .exe, it shows Queen value 1,000 (with a comma). Don't know what effect, if any, this might have. Just thought i should mention this.

Regards
Dave

[K I Hyams]

No Houdini personalities yet ?

I am surprised that no personality has yet been posted that kicks Houdini 1.5a and Houdini 2.0 around.

Thank you for the tool. It is awesome. Unfortunately, I haven't found a stronger config up to now. But I will continue testing.

I am quite convinced that 6471788975322020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020201E2228161C1E20 is stronger than default.

Thank you for the tool, Matthias. I also tried the setting to which you refer. I used Chessbase/Shredder 8 and I hex-edited the modified Houdini 1.5a so that the GUI took it to be a different engine to the unedited Houdini 1.5a. I then played about 100 games of a head to head between the 2 versions.

Using the the Perfect v8.1 opening book, the modified version appeared to be substantially stronger than the unmodified version but when I changed to REMIS opening book, the original proved stronger by about an equal amount. The effect of the opening book isn’t clear; the turn around is not particularly unlikely to be just a statistical thing. If your results are likely to motivate me to do a retest, I would be grateful if you would post them. Either way, I might try Dave's settings next.

Keith.

[David Dahlem]

No Houdini personalities yet ?

I am surprised that no personality has yet been posted that kicks Houdini 1.5a and Houdini 2.0 around.

Steve.R wrote:
Houdini 1.5a personalities!!

[style= Aggressive]
Pawn value= 90
Knight value= 300
Bishop value= 300
Rook value= 450
Queen value= 900
Bishop pair value= 35
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Vladimir wrote:
Games Completed = 1000 of 1000 (Avg game length = 18.348 sec)
Settings = RR/32MB/2000ms+100ms/M 700000cp for 7 moves, D 150 moves/EPD:D:\LittleBlitzer\openings.epd(4000)
Time = 4858 sec elapsed, 0 sec remaining

1. Houdini 1.5a Aggressive 520.5/1000
354-313-333 (L: m=313 t=0 i=0 a=0) (D: r=75 i=89 f=82 s=3 a=84) (tpm=109.7 d=11.7 nps=1432398)

2. Houdini 1.5a 479.5/1000
313-354-333 (L: m=354 t=0 i=0 a=0) (D: r=75 i=89 f=82 s=3 a=84) (tpm=110.2 d=11.7 nps=1444288)

These settings are very Strong!!
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Regards
Dave

[Matthias Gemuh]

Hi Matthias

I've noticed something with HoudiConfig. If i change Queen value to 1000 and save to .exe, when i load the .exe, it shows Queen value 1,000 (with a comma). Don't know what effect, if any, this might have. Just thought i should mention this.

Regards
Dave

The comma has no effect.
Old versions of HoudiConfig may output cryptic characters at end of parameter string when an exe file is loaded.
That is harmless. I simply forgot to null-terminate the parameter string. It is not used anywhere else.

http://www.chessgui.com/chess/HoudiConfig.zip

[Matthias Gemuh]

... If your results are likely to motivate me to do a retest, I would be grateful if you would post them. Either way, I might try Dave's settings next.

Keith.

Hi Keith,

I played only a 4-rounds RR with 8 engines at TC 2'+1" and did not keep results.

Matthias.

[Matthias Gemuh]

update

http://www.chessgui.com/chess/HoudiConfig.zip

[peter]

update

http://www.chessgui.com/chess/HoudiConfig.zip

Thanks a lot, Matthias!
Seems to work for H2.0b too now?