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cutechess-cli produces no screen output under Linux
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 12:20 pm
by BeyondCritics
I am trying to use cutechess-cli to play some matches with spsa evaluation.
Unfortunately i get no screen output whatsoever, even with the -debug option.
Does anyone know a workaround?
I am using Ubuntu 17.10
I installed cutechess-cli 1.0.0 from their debian release
https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess/ ... _amd64.deb
My command line:
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exec $CUTE_CHESS_CLI -engine name="$TESTEE" cmd="$TESTEE_PATH" -engine name="$MASTER" cmd="$MASTER_PATH" -each proto=uci option.Hash=4 tc=7+0.07 -openings file=$OPENINGS order=random -pgnout /run/user/1000/test.pgn -ratinginterval 1 -concurrency 2 -repeat -recover -resign movecount=6 score=100 -draw movenumber=10 movecount=6 score=20 -rounds $ROUNDS -tb $SYZYGY -sprt elo0=0 elo1=2 alpha=0.05 beta=0.05 -debug
Re: cutechess-cli produces no screen output under Linux
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 1:25 pm
by AlvaroBegue
Why are you using exec?
Re: cutechess-cli produces no screen output under Linux
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 1:33 pm
by BeyondCritics
It saves resources. It is just an old habit of mine.
I removed the exec prefix, but it doesn't helped either.
Re: cutechess-cli produces no screen output under Linux
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 1:39 pm
by AlvaroBegue
Can you fill in the values for the variables so we can try the command ourselves?
EDIT: Also, try simplifying the command to see what is the simplest form of it that gives you trouble (e.g., no opening book, no UCI options, no use of SPRT...).
Re: cutechess-cli produces no screen output under Linux
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 1:44 pm
by BeyondCritics
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#!/bin/sh
CUTE_CHESS_CLI="/usr/games/cutechess-cli"
MASTER_PATH="/home/oliver/bin/stockfish-master"
TESTEE_PATH="/home/oliver/git/chess/stockfish/master/src/stockfish_kbnk"
OPENINGS="/home/oliver/data/Software/Chess/2moves_v1.pgn"
SYZYGY="/home/oliver/data/syzygy/"
#movenumber=34
#-resign movecount=3 score=400
$CUTE_CHESS_CLI -engine name=testee cmd="$TESTEE_PATH" -engine name=master cmd="$MASTER_PATH" -each proto=uci option.Hash=4 tc=7+0.07 -openings file=$OPENINGS order=random -pgnout /run/user/1000/test.pgn -ratinginterval 1 -concurrency 2 -repeat -recover -resign movecount=6 score=100 -draw movenumber=10 movecount=6 score=20 -rounds 2 -tb $SYZYGY -sprt elo0=0 elo1=2 alpha=0.05 beta=0.05 -debug
A similar script
did work with an older version of cutechess-cli.
Re: cutechess-cli produces no screen output under Linux
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 1:48 pm
by AlvaroBegue
Hmmm... I changed your script a bit so I could run it on my machine and it seems to work fine:
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#!/bin/sh
CUTE_CHESS_CLI="/home/alvaro/Downloads/cutechess-master/projects/cli/cutechess-cli"
MASTER_PATH="fruit"
TESTEE_PATH="fruit"
OPENINGS="/home/alvaro/ruy/swcr-fq-openings-v3.5.pgn"
SYZYGY="/home/alvaro/syzygy"
#movenumber=34
#-resign movecount=3 score=400
$CUTE_CHESS_CLI -engine name=testee cmd="$TESTEE_PATH" -engine name=master cmd="$MASTER_PATH" -each proto=uci option.Hash=4 tc=7+0.07 -openings file=$OPENINGS order=random -pgnout /run/user/1000/test.pgn -ratinginterval 1 -concurrency 2 -repeat -recover -resign movecount=6 score=100 -draw movenumber=10 movecount=6 score=20 -rounds 2 -tb $SYZYGY -sprt elo0=0 elo1=2 alpha=0.05 beta=0.05 -debug
EDIT: oh, I am using cutechess-cli 0.8.5 . That might explain the difference.
Re: cutechess-cli produces no screen output under Linux
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 2:16 pm
by BeyondCritics
AlvaroBegue wrote:Hmmm... I changed your script a bit so I could run it on my machine and it seems to work fine:
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#!/bin/sh
CUTE_CHESS_CLI="/home/alvaro/Downloads/cutechess-master/projects/cli/cutechess-cli"
MASTER_PATH="fruit"
TESTEE_PATH="fruit"
OPENINGS="/home/alvaro/ruy/swcr-fq-openings-v3.5.pgn"
SYZYGY="/home/alvaro/syzygy"
#movenumber=34
#-resign movecount=3 score=400
$CUTE_CHESS_CLI -engine name=testee cmd="$TESTEE_PATH" -engine name=master cmd="$MASTER_PATH" -each proto=uci option.Hash=4 tc=7+0.07 -openings file=$OPENINGS order=random -pgnout /run/user/1000/test.pgn -ratinginterval 1 -concurrency 2 -repeat -recover -resign movecount=6 score=100 -draw movenumber=10 movecount=6 score=20 -rounds 2 -tb $SYZYGY -sprt elo0=0 elo1=2 alpha=0.05 beta=0.05 -debug
EDIT: oh, I am using cutechess-cli 0.8.5 . That might explain the difference.
I downloaded version 0.85 from their releases page, but it still doesn't show any console output. Moreover, i got an error first:
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Warning: Unknown option: "-tb"
Could you run
/home/alvaro/Downloads/cutechess-master/projects/cli/cutechess-cli --version
to see which version that shows?
The cutechess-cli version of Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) worked for me, maybe i should use that within an docker image. I will post how it goes.
Re: cutechess-cli produces no screen output under Linux
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 2:25 pm
by pferd
BeyondCritics wrote:
I downloaded version 0.85 from their releases page, but it still doesn't show any console output. Moreover, i got an error first:
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Warning: Unknown option: "-tb"
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I am running Arch Linux here with the latest cutechess-cli compiled from source and your script works like a charm.
Instead of using the -tb command you could either hard code the tb-path into the stockfish binary or you could try something like option.SyzygyPath="$SYZYGY"
Re: cutechess-cli produces no screen output under Linux
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:46 pm
by BeyondCritics
AlvaroBegue wrote:Can you fill in the values for the variables so we can try the command ourselves?
EDIT: Also, try simplifying the command to see what is the simplest form of it that gives you trouble (e.g., no opening book, no UCI options, no use of SPRT...).
This should be the simplest.
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/home/oliver/data/Software/Chess/cutechess-cli/cutechess-cli -engine name=testee cmd="$TESTEE_PATH" -engine name=master cmd="$MASTER_PATH" -each proto=uci tc=1+0.1 -ratinginterval 5 -rounds 10 -debug
Still no cigar.
Re: cutechess-cli produces no screen output under Linux
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 7:10 pm
by AlvaroBegue
BeyondCritics wrote:Could you run
/home/alvaro/Downloads/cutechess-master/projects/cli/cutechess-cli --version
to see which version that shows?
That's what I did:
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alvaro@ryzen7:~$ /home/alvaro/Downloads/cutechess-master/projects/cli/cutechess-cli --version
cutechess-cli 0.8.5
Using Qt version 5.7.1
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