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jonkr wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 12:44 am
- On the plus side, this should be the largest strength increase between versions so far. Scored about +100 elo in 60 + .5 self-play. (Might be less against other engines or at different time controls.)

jonkr wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:41 pm I checked the FRC list and I'm happy to see the first external testing results are consistent with what I was hoping. (Was +91 elo when I checked, and I think my results from doing self-play tests at super fast time controls will overestimate differences.)

fastgm wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 4:56 pm I have a problem with Slowchess Blitz Classic and Cutechess-Cli.
After executing the program, a dialog box appears, stating that the opening book could not be loaded.

• The directory structure from the zip is maintained. Assuming working directory same as executable directory, then the book is at "openingBook\TestBook.scb". Also that the bitbases are in "bitbases" directory (it won't complain about missing bitbases but I never tested endgames without them.)
• in the file "engineWB.dft" make sure the book path didn't get changed somehow, I have a line "BookPath=openingBook\TestBook.scb"

jonkr wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 7:17 pm
The defaults are working for me (I test with cuteChess-GUI / Winboard / Own GUI ), but the things the check to make sure are :

• The directory structure from the zip is maintained. Assuming working directory same as executable directory, then the book is at "openingBook\TestBook.scb". Also that the bitbases are in "bitbases" directory (it won't complain about missing bitbases but I never tested endgames without them.)
• in the file "engineWB.dft" make sure the book path didn't get changed somehow, I have a line "BookPath=openingBook\TestBook.scb"

It does try load the book always, and checks the ownBook toggle before looking in it for a move. Not sure if that would change, but I do want to do another pass on setup and instructions/messaging sometime.

cutechess-cli.exe ^
-engine name="SlowChess Blitz Classic 2.0" cmd="D:\Chess\Cutechess\SlowChessClassic-2.0\slow64.exe" proto=uci ^
-engine name="SlowChess Blitz Classic 1.9" cmd="D:\Chess\Cutechess\SlowChessClassic-1.9\slow64.exe" proto=uci ^
-each option.Hash=128 tc=60+0.6 -games 250 -rounds 1 -concurrency 3 -repeat -recover -tournament gauntlet -openings file=8moves_v3.pgn format=pgn order=random -pgnout SlowChessBlitzClassic_2.0-1.9.pgn

jonkr wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:25 pm

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\cutechess\cutechess-cli" -engine name="Slow 2.0" cmd=slow64.exe dir="C:\Downloads\Engines\SlowChessClassic-2.0" proto=uci -engine conf="Slow WV2.1" -each tc=40/0:20+0.2 -games 10 -concurrency 7

I tried in Cute Chess GUI and it worked for me with the above line. From looking at your command my guess is that the command line needs a directory to set the working directory and access the external book / bitbase files.