New engine releases 2019

[Guenther]

Hello All,

I've made a new FrankWalter release: 2.3.2, and FrankWalter is now hosted on Github: https://github.com/ljgw/frankwalter/releases

The main 'improvement' is that FrankWalter is now open source. Besides that, the most important changes are how the xboard protocol is parsed and how time is managed for the engine. This should now allow pondering for the engine, and also makes the engine a little bit faster, but otherwise there is no difference in which moves would be played by the engine. In particular, 2.3.2 is just a bugfix for the 2.3.1 release.

Due to the nature of the release, I appreciate any feedback on how FrankWalter behaves in the assorted GUIs and tournament managers, especially when pondering.

One last thing: to avoid anymore confusion, I've standardized the engine name, and gotten rid of the dash. It is now "FrankWalter", just like its aleady spelled on CCRL.

Thanks and good luck with further improvements.
I have changed the main name in the chronology too (just kept the old one in the 'fka' column for 'historical' reasons).

Edit: Oh I see it very soon has its 10th birthday too :)

[ljgw]

Thanks:-)

I didn't realize that this 10-year anniversary was so close!

--Laurens

[CMCanavessi]

Hello All,

I've made a new FrankWalter release: 2.3.2, and FrankWalter is now hosted on Github: https://github.com/ljgw/frankwalter/releases

The main 'improvement' is that FrankWalter is now open source. Besides that, the most important changes are how the xboard protocol is parsed and how time is managed for the engine. This should now allow pondering for the engine, and also makes the engine a little bit faster, but otherwise there is no difference in which moves would be played by the engine. In particular, 2.3.2 is just a bugfix for the 2.3.1 release.

Due to the nature of the release, I appreciate any feedback on how FrankWalter behaves in the assorted GUIs and tournament managers, especially when pondering.

One last thing: to avoid anymore confusion, I've standardized the engine name, and gotten rid of the dash. It is now "FrankWalter", just like its aleady spelled on CCRL.

What would you say it's the current strength?

[ljgw]

What would you say it's the current strength?

I suspect that version 2.3.2 is just a bit better than 2.2.8 (which is 2459 at CCRL4040) and pondering gives it a similar boost in strength.

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Rank Name                          Elo     +/-   Games   Score   Draws
   1 fw232 ponder                   35      75      60   55.0%   30.0%
   2 olithink                        0      76      60   50.0%   26.7%
   3 fw232                           0      73      60   50.0%   33.3%
   4 fw228                         -35      75      60   45.0%   30.0%

indeed I snapped this tournament result at 120 out of 3000 games, because it looked really pretty^^. olithink looks strong here, because FrankWalter in this tournament only uses a 16mb TT.

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Franky 1.0 UCI https://github.com/frankkopp/FrankyUCIC ... e/releases
Leokom 0.3 XB https://github.com/lrozenblyum/chess/releases
Minic 0.37 XB https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/Minic/releases

[tmokonen]

Counter 3.2:

https://github.com/ChizhovVadim/Counter ... s/tag/v3.2

[Guenther]

LC0 0.21.0-rc1 released yesterday
https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/releases

[Gabor Szots]

ECE-X3.5 and Dimitri 4.77, both by Luigino Viscione, have been released.

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Minic 0.38 https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/Minic/releases
SpaceDog 0.97 https://github.com/thorsilver/SpaceDog/releases/ (no Windows file)

by the way: Counter 3.2 Mac OS release is available too

[ljgw]

FrankWalter 2.3.3 https://github.com/ljgw/frankwalter/releases

bugfix for the moves per session time control