Zentropy GUI

[kranium]

Hi all-

I recently released a new toy...an open-source engine GUI on Github:
https://github.com/FireFather/Zentropy

It's intended for modern Windows 64-bit systems.

It written in C#, and utilizes fast windows bitmap routines.
Game play can be ultra-fast (for ex: fixed depth = 12) without any negative effects.

It currently supports match play only, but I will be attempting to implement round-robin and gauntlet modes in the coming weeks and months.

It's not been thoroughly tested on a variety of systems, so is bound to have bugs.
Just let me know about any issue (either here, privately, or on github), and I'll do my best to resolve it.

One feature that may be interesting for developers/testers is the live match LOS calculation...
I thinking of adding a feature that ends the match when LOS = X% (an adjustable threshold).

In addition to the GUI application, there are 362 engines (64-bit popcnt or less) and their logos (in 100 x 50 format) included in the download.
(I was fairly careful with my selection process here, but if there are any that shouldn't be distributed in this manner, please let me know and I'll adjust the download accordingly).

Suggestions are welcome,
Norm

[sovaz1997]

Congratulations! It really looks interesting. By the way, about the tests: SPRT is planned? This is just to automatically stop the test

[kranium]

Congratulations! It really looks interesting. By the way, about the tests: SPRT is planned? This is just to automatically stop the test

great idea...(yes, could be very useful for engine developers, self-play, etc.)
Thx!

[ChickenLogic]

I like it

What immediately sprang to my mind was syzygy tb adjudication up to 7 man. I only know that cutechess-cli is capable of this but none of the guis afaik.

[Damir]

Thanks for the new GUI Norm. One question, does it also support ctg book format for Chessbase and Fritz GUI?

[kranium]

Thanks for the new GUI Norm. One question, does it also support ctg book format for Chessbase and Fritz GUI?

I'm afraid not Damir. At the moment it uses FEN notation for book positions. But it does have a routine to convert any PGN to book.
(Simply chose the desired depth and each game in the pgn will be converted (at the specified depth) to a FEN position...
original PGN is not modified.)

Currently the name of the book file is hard coded : (book.fen)
There's one included with the download which was generated from a high quality 10,000 game GM PGN (@ 4 moves, 8 plies).

[kranium]

I like it

What immediately sprang to my mind was syzygy tb adjudication up to 7 man. I only know that cutechess-cli is capable of this but none of the guis afaik.

yes, a very nice feature...
I'll definitely try
Thx!

[Guenther]

Hi all-

I recently released a new toy...an open-source engine GUI on Github:
https://github.com/FireFather/Zentropy

It's intended for modern Windows 64-bit systems.

It written in C#, and utilizes fast windows bitmap routines.
Game play can be ultra-fast (for ex: fixed depth = 12) without any negative effects.

It currently supports match play only, but I will be attempting to implement round-robin and gauntlet modes in the coming weeks and months.

It's not been thoroughly tested on a variety of systems, so is bound to have bugs.
Just let me know about any issue (either here, privately, or on github), and I'll do my best to resolve it.

One feature that may be interesting for developers/testers is the live match LOS calculation...
I thinking of adding a feature that ends the match when LOS = X% (an adjustable threshold).

In addition to the GUI application, there are 362 engines (64-bit popcnt or less) and their logos (in 100 x 50 format) included in the download.
(I was fairly careful with my selection process here, but if there are any that shouldn't be distributed in this manner, please let me know and I'll adjust the download accordingly).

Suggestions are welcome,
Norm

You should make also a download for people, who don't need the whole engines and/or popcount folder. (over 2GB extracted IIRC)

Anyhow, I will take a look at it, after I made a macro for converting my winboard/cutechess engine settings into your config style :)

[Damir]

does the gui support bin books ?

[kranium]

does the gui support bin books ?

No, only PGN->FEN