Re: best server for computers to play variants currently?
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:12 am
Yea, it's real easy to get a game against stockfish. lichess has stockfish built in, and it's available for download. But that gets boring pretty quick, and there is no human involved to chat with during the games. That was actually one of my favourite parts back when FICS was variant central, getting to chat with all the other variant authors while we watched our engines battle. And having occasional humans challenge it was fun also.Ferdy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 4:23 amOne way to check how your program plays atomic is to download stockfish variant that can play atomic, then do a match against your engine. You can use winboard gui for this, given of course if your engine supports cecp (xboard/winboard) protocol.Angrim wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 3:16 am lichess has a decent amount of variant games, I see 4 atomic games at the moment, 9 crazyhouse, and 3 suicide(antichess) games... but 0 bot games. They just don't seem to want to encourage anything other than stockfish :/ So repeating my question in hopes that the answer somehow changes, is there anywhere that computers can play variants and expect to get a game currently?