Do SF still have troubles with 2nd repetitions ?

Discussion of anything and everything relating to chess playing software and machines.

Moderators: hgm, Rebel, chrisw

Vinvin
Posts: 5228
Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:40 am
Full name: Vincent Lejeune

Re: Do SF still have troubles with 2nd repetitions ?

Post by Vinvin »

We need 2 main branches : One Stockfish to play games and one Stockfish to have accurate analysis.
jhellis3 wrote:Or you could just use Stockfish MateFinder. It is about 10 Elo weaker, but that is only due to a sometimes slower (more robust) search. I keep it updated fairly regularly.
stevenaaus
Posts: 608
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:44 am
Location: Australia

Re: Do SF still have troubles with 2nd repetitions ?

Post by stevenaaus »

Git is such an unuseable pile of shit... How the hell do i get a diff ?

Ok - add ".patch" to the URL.
https://github.com/joergoster/Stockfish ... 5b7d.patch

but the patch no longer applies to master. All this fuss for *maybe* 1 elo. :?:
User avatar
Eelco de Groot
Posts: 4563
Joined: Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:40 am
Full name:   

Re: Do SF still have troubles with 2nd repetitions ?

Post by Eelco de Groot »

stevenaaus wrote:Git is such an unuseable pile of shit... How the hell do i get a diff ?

Ok - add ".patch" to the URL.
https://github.com/joergoster/Stockfish ... 5b7d.patch

but the patch no longer applies to master. All this fuss for *maybe* 1 elo. :?:
So you mean it is better to apply the patch to the master to avoid cases of confusion and take the loss of maybe one Elo? By the way, https://github.com/Kingdefender/Stockfi ... repetition
is kept up to date at least as long as automatic merging is straightforward, so you should be able to get diff with master from that. The differences in the files at the time that Jörg committed them are maybe more easily seen in the 'commit history' if that is the proper name for it; https://github.com/joergoster/Stockfish ... ae4cce5b7d
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first
place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you
are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
-- Brian W. Kernighan
stevenaaus
Posts: 608
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:44 am
Location: Australia

Re: Do SF still have troubles with 2nd repetitions ?

Post by stevenaaus »

So you mean it is better to apply the patch to the master to avoid cases of confusion and take the loss of maybe one Elo?
Yes ... This issue continues to annoy so many people, and will continue to raise it's head as new users come across it.