Nucleus

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peter
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Nucleus

Post by peter »

0.0.1 is the latest version, that I know of, of this great tool from Ferdinand Mosca.
Ed Schröder has it on his Rebel2.7- Site for download:

http://www.rebel13.nl/noomen/prodeo27.html

Are there any plans for further delevopment or is there already a newer version, that I've missed?
0.0.1 doesn't support go infinite- command and only 2G hash for the slaves and the master- engines.

Anyhow many thanks for the great tool once in a while from my side again regards
Peter.
Ferdy
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Re: Nucleus

Post by Ferdy »

Try headsup.
peter
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Re: Nucleus

Post by peter »

Ferdy wrote: Sat Aug 21, 2021 11:49 pm Try headsup.
Thanks a lot, Ferdinand, but I like Nucleus especially as for analysis, mostly backwarding certain lines of interest and for long time pondering at certain positions.

With Ceres there's another one engine with also tactical strong output yet sometimes different to SF. Pity engines like LC0 don't really profit from "hash- learning" in Backward compared to SF- like engines. So at the moment I like it most to combine Ceres as slave1 with SF as slave2 and as master engine as well. So SF gets after pondering of its own the move of Ceres to answer to as well as to its own one in master- part, just the way Marco Costalba some years ago tried with a batch file called double blind test, also giving tactical best moves not found by the engine on its own in a certain time as a second chance to ponder about the solution again after backward to test position
That's the way Nucleus works fine for me, biggest limits so far are the missing of the go inifinite command and the hash limit of 2G for each engine.

If you ever start working on Nucleus again, let me know, please.
Thanks again for the tool and the many others of yours given for free to computerchess regards
Peter.