On-line engine blitz tourney August

[hgm]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for July will take place on:

Saturday August 22, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

[matthewlai]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for July will take place on:

Saturday August 22, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

Awesome! Hopefully Giraffe will actually win some games this time. Only about 400 Elo stronger than last time...

[Henk]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for July will take place on:

Saturday August 22, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

Awesome! Hopefully Giraffe will actually win some games this time. Only about 400 Elo stronger than last time...

If Giraffe can't win from Skipper you can forget your promotion.

[matthewlai]

If Giraffe can't win from Skipper you can forget your promotion.

You still have 3 days to work on it .

[Henk]

If Giraffe can't win from Skipper you can forget your promotion.

You still have 3 days to work on it .

No I just let you win. Otherwise I get trouble with University.

[Joost Buijs]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for July will take place on:

Saturday August 22, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

A testing opportunity, nice!

I finally found the bug that was driving me crazy for the last half year or so.
The engine played very well for some moves or even whole games, but every now and then it threw out a real blunder.
At least a 100 times I went over the code and could not find anything.
So I suspected it to be a race condition in my SMP search, which I totally redesigned, but alas to no avail.
Yesterday, while I was not even looking for it, I found a small typo in the code that was the cause of all problems.

It was a typo in the transposition table pruning in the PV search.

It said:

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	// pv tt pruning
	if (entry.depth >= depth) {
		if ((entry.value == ttLBound && entry.value >= beta) || entry.type == ttExact)
			return entry.value;
	}

Which should of course be:

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	// pv tt pruning
	if (entry.depth >= depth) {
		if ((entry.type == ttLBound && entry.value >= beta) || entry.type == ttExact)
			return entry.value;
	}

I wonder how it got there in the first place, and how on earth it is possible that I missed this for so many months.

[stegemma]

[...]
Awesome! Hopefully Giraffe will actually win some games this time. Only about 400 Elo stronger than last time...

But Giraffe already has won against Satana so it is enough that I partecipate to see you win almost one game

[Henk]

[...]
Awesome! Hopefully Giraffe will actually win some games this time. Only about 400 Elo stronger than last time...

But Giraffe already has won against Satana so it is enough that I partecipate to see you win almost one game

If I get my engine to play below 1500 ELO at least there will be less people that doubt if it is original.

[flok]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for July will take place on:

Saturday August 22, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

Can you create an account for "Embla" please?
Thanks.

[Joost Buijs]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for July will take place on:

Saturday August 22, 3pm Boston time (21:00 Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost winboard.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

I also have my engine running on ARM and Intel Atom, can you add an account 'NightmareA' on your server?
Very soon I will get a Snapdragon 410 SOC (still waiting for it) and I would like to let my engine run (more or less permanently) on your server.

TIA.