Wasp 3.60 time forfeit on UCI_LimitStrength

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Ferdy
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Wasp 3.60 time forfeit on UCI_LimitStrength

Post by Ferdy »

While tuning Deuterium's UCI_Elo, Wasp's score is nothing.

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Rank Name                          Elo     +/-   Games   Score   Draws
   1 cheese 2.0 ucielo 1500        690     nan      54   98.1%    0.0%
   2 Cheng 4.39 ucielo 1500        334     165      55   87.3%    0.0%
   3 Amyan 1.72 ucielo 1500        143     101      54   69.4%    5.6%
   4 Ufim v8.02 ucielo 1500         99      99      54   63.9%    1.9%
   5 Rhetoric 1.4.3 ucielo 1500      65      93      54   59.3%    7.4%
   6 MadChess 2.2 ucielo 1500       25      91      55   53.6%    5.5%
   7 D2019.2.37.53 ucielo 1500      25      90      56   53.6%    7.1%
   8 Discocheck 5.2 ucielo 1500     -69      90      56   40.2%    8.9%
   9 Arasan 21.3 ucielo 1500      -135     101      54   31.5%    3.7%
  10 CT800 V1.34 ucielo 1500      -163     106      55   28.2%    1.8%
  11 Hiarcs 14 ucielo 1500        -295     142      55   15.5%    1.8%
  12 Wasp 3.60 ucielo 1500        -inf     nan      54    0.0%    0.0%

328 of 1320 games finished.
Turns out all were due to time forfeit.

Sample games.

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2019.07.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "D2019.2.37.53 ucielo 1500"]
[Black "Wasp 3.60 ucielo 1500"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A15"]
[GameDuration "00:01:06"]
[GameEndTime "2019-07-05T12:03:51.982 China Standard Time"]
[GameStartTime "2019-07-05T12:02:45.432 China Standard Time"]
[Opening "English Opening"]
[PlyCount "29"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "60+1"]

1. c4 {book} Nf6 {book} 2. Nf3 {book} g6 {book} 3. b3 {book} Bg7 {book}
4. Bb2 {book} O-O {book} 5. e3 {book} d6 {book} 6. Be2 {book} e5 {book}
7. O-O {book} e4 {book} 8. Ne1 {book} c6 {book} 9. f3 {-0.03/2 0.010s}
Nbd7 {+0.21/2 11s} 10. d3 {+0.08/2 0.001s} Bh6 {+0.02/2 18s}
11. Nc2 {+0.53/3 0.001s} exf3 {-0.12/2 11s} 12. Bxf3 {+0.46/3 0.002s}
Ne5 {-0.16/2 3.1s} 13. Be2 {+0.50/2 0.001s} Bf5 {+0.08/2 7.3s}
14. Nd2 {+0.54/2 0.001s} Nfg4 {+0.34/2 5.4s}
15. Bd4 {+0.38/2 0.001s, Black loses on time} 1-0

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2019.07.05"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Wasp 3.60 ucielo 1500"]
[Black "CT800 V1.34 ucielo 1500"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D11"]
[GameDuration "00:01:19"]
[GameEndTime "2019-07-05T12:13:05.737 China Standard Time"]
[GameStartTime "2019-07-05T12:11:45.947 China Standard Time"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[PlyCount "26"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "60+1"]
[Variation "4.e3"]

1. d4 {book} d5 {book} 2. c4 {book} c6 {book} 3. Nf3 {book} Nf6 {book}
4. e3 {book} Bg4 {book} 5. h3 {book} Bxf3 {book} 6. Qxf3 {book} e6 {book}
7. Nc3 {book} Bd6 {book} 8. Bd3 {book} O-O {book} 9. c5 {+0.57/2 2.9s}
Be7 {-0.05/2 2.7s} 10. O-O {+0.45/2 3.8s} b6 {-0.33/2 3.0s}
11. b4 {+0.61/2 4.0s} Nbd7 {-0.39/2 2.9s} 12. Bb2 {+0.66/2 3.7s}
e5 {-0.37/2 2.9s} 13. b5 {+0.25/2 35s} exd4 {-0.15/2 2.9s, White loses on time}
0-1

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2019.07.05"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Amyan 1.72 ucielo 1500"]
[Black "Wasp 3.60 ucielo 1500"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[GameDuration "00:01:53"]
[GameEndTime "2019-07-05T12:20:18.464 China Standard Time"]
[GameStartTime "2019-07-05T12:18:24.654 China Standard Time"]
[Opening "Sicilian defense"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "60+1"]

1. e4 {book} c5 {book} 2. d3 {book} Nc6 {book} 3. g3 {book} g6 {book}
4. Bg2 {book} Bg7 {book} 5. f4 {book} d6 {book} 6. Nf3 {book} Rb8 {book}
7. a4 {book} e6 {book} 8. O-O {book} Nge7 {book} 9. Nc3 {+0.51/4 1.4s}
O-O {-0.36/2 2.9s} 10. Qe2 {+0.29/4 2.1s} Bd7 {-0.02/2 3.7s}
11. Be3 {+0.11/4 4.0s} Nd4 {+0.10/2 2.8s} 12. Bxd4 {+0.38/4 1.6s}
Bxd4+ {-0.29/2 6.6s} 13. Nxd4 {+0.34/6 2.1s} cxd4 {-1.02/2 5.0s}
14. Nb5 {+0.34/6 1.4s} Bxb5 {-0.98/2 2.6s} 15. axb5 {+0.55/6 3.0s}
a6 {-0.93/2 2.7s} 16. Ra4 {+0.83/4 1.8s} e5 {-0.79/2 2.9s}
17. bxa6 {+0.94/4 2.0s} bxa6 {-0.70/2 3.8s} 18. fxe5 {+0.84/4 3.7s}
dxe5 {-0.76/2 3.3s} 19. c4 {+0.99/4 1.5s} Qb6 {-0.98/2 3.5s}
20. b4 {+1.13/4 1.3s} f6 {-1.00/2 2.4s} 21. Qa2 {+1.22/4 2.0s}
Kg7 {-0.76/2 3.7s} 22. c5 {+1.00/4 4.6s} Qb5 {-0.81/2 3.1s}
23. Rxa6 {+0.88/4 1.4s} Qxd3 {-0.63/2 3.7s} 24. Qe6 {+1.19/4 2.3s}
Qe3+ {-1.59/2 21s} 25. Kh1 {+0.80/5 1.4s, Black loses on time} 1-0
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Re: Wasp 3.60 time forfeit on UCI_LimitStrength

Post by PK »

I remember having similar problem with Rodent. It turned out that once nodes per second are limited, one has to check for timeout a bit more often (assuming that checking for timeout is done at constant node intervals).