My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

[Gabor Szots]

I would suggest to get a Github account, create an issue in the Yoshie2000 fork and provide some useful information there like the tournament file.

Just had a look, there is no 'Issues' there. And, as I can see, your Jan 25 pull request has been unanswered yet.

I talked to Patrick via Discord about that. He doesn't want to get into a maintainer role for Cutechess so he refuses to activate the issue feature on his fork. But he will look into gauntlet problems which were unknown because Stefan doesn't use gauntlets.
And he apologized for missing my PR

Regards, Andreas

Thanks, Andreas.

Some news on my part: I am just running a gauntlet using 2 seeded engines and concurrency set to 2, rounds=32, encounter per match=1. With theses premises the gauntlet is running flawlessly. I have just checked whether the same seeded engine plays itself occassionally but I did not find such an occurrence.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

I talked to Patrick via Discord about that. He doesn't want to get into a maintainer role for Cutechess so he refuses to activate the issue feature on his fork. But he will look into gauntlet problems which were unknown because Stefan doesn't use gauntlets.
And he apologized for missing my PR

Regards, Andreas

It's sad, and once again it ends like this - tragedy.

[Modern Times]

I talked to Patrick via Discord about that. He doesn't want to get into a maintainer role for Cutechess so he refuses to activate the issue feature on his fork. But he will look into gauntlet problems which were unknown because Stefan doesn't use gauntlets.
And he apologized for missing my PR

Regards, Andreas

It's sad, and once again it ends like this - tragedy.

From Stefan's original post, I thought this was only ever meant to be a one-off set of improvements, not an ongoing project.

[Overwrite3218]

I had a question about tablebases: On the sp-cc.de page the author of "UHO-Top15 Engines Ratinglist" talks about his test conditions for Cutechess and says "Tablebases: None for engines, 5 Syzygy for cutechess-cli". I'm trying to understand this and why reporting tablebase hits reporting in Cutechess seems inconsistent from engine to engine. It seems to work for all Stockfish engines from 17.1 on and Obsidian 16.0, but not Plentychess 7.0.37, Reckless 0.9.0, or Alexandria 9.0. I think one of those that I'm not getting tbhits from doesn't have a Syzygy path. Also, is the reason the sp-cc.de page the author doesn't use Syzygy for the individual engines because not all of them use tablebases?

NOTE: I'm pretty new to Cutechess having run many tournaments in Aquarium. I can't get Plentychess to work in Aquarium's tournament mode and setting up custom opening libraries is possible, but a real pain to setup. Cutechess was a breeze for both!