Engine release Exacto 0.e

Guenther · Post by **Guenther** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 11:39 am

Ok now I could reproduce your error. I did not notice before that you played with a GUI book!
Obviously Exacto 0.e is not able to understand this, no idea why, because
it agrees to understand 'setboard' in the beginning?
It chokes then on the color and starts at move 1 and of course produces an illegal move.
I leave the case to HG and the author now ;-)

Guenther

hgm · Post by **hgm** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:36 pm

Guenther wrote:I leave the case to HG and the author now

The cause has already bee pinpointed: a 'force' command (as sent when there is a hit on the GUI book, to send the book move to the engine) can set Exacto thinking (and produce a move), in stead of setting it to force mode.

Exacto · Post by **Exacto** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:20 pm

Well, easy enough to fix.

I compiled up a version that has only this fix about the force command (and post too, since after re-checking the XBoard protocol, apparently it doesn't toggle either). I checked that it searches the same number of nodes in a quick benchmark as the 0.e that I already published.

I did not, for example, fix the bug that Jose pointed (that one is fixed, though, in the 0.f source). Is it considered legitimate to replace the .exe on my site for 0.e with this one with a fixed Force command, if there are no changes to gameplay?

I say so because Graham is already two days into testing 0.e.

Graham Banks · Post by **Graham Banks** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:54 pm

Exacto wrote:Well, easy enough to fix.

I compiled up a version that has only this fix about the force command (and post too, since after re-checking the XBoard protocol, apparently it doesn't toggle either). I checked that it searches the same number of nodes in a quick benchmark as the 0.e that I already published.

I did not, for example, fix the bug that Jose pointed (that one is fixed, though, in the 0.f source). Is it considered legitimate to replace the .exe on my site for 0.e with this one with a fixed Force command, if there are no changes to gameplay?

I say so because Graham is already two days into testing 0.e.

Sounds good Dan.

I'll just get my Exacto 0.e 64-bit games renamed to Exacto 0.f 64-bit for the ratings.

Graham.

Exacto · Post by **Exacto** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:45 pm

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/261 ... to-dev.zip

Gabor et al - would you mind trying to run this with your GUI book? I fixed this "force" issue, so hopefully it will work.

Guenther · Post by **Guenther** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:26 am

SzG wrote:
Exacto wrote:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/261 ... to-dev.zip

Gabor et al - would you mind trying to run this with your GUI book? I fixed this "force" issue, so hopefully it will work.
I'm going to do it tomorrow, no chance to do it today.

I would verify it if there was a XP32 version available.

Guenther

Exacto · Post by **Exacto** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:25 pm

Cool, thanks!

Graham Banks · Post by **Graham Banks** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 11:08 am

Dan - I find that once Exacto has played move 126, it loses on time.
This has happened several times - always after 126 moves.

Guenther · Post by **Guenther** » Wed May 04, 2016 9:26 am

https://github.com/d-sparks/exacto/releases/tag/0.e

This was released in May 2015 and if you download the source from the
release branch it will contain actually Exacto 0.f despite the wrong naming.

Guenther

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