Myracle GUI

[chessica]

this happens if you have a pairing that utilizes more than a possible scheduler budget and tournament cannot continue.
for example you set core budget in concurrency settings to 1 and try to run 1vs1 ponder on or even some of the engines is set up to use 2 or more threads,
ditto for memory. the GUI already tells you where to look

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 Name                           Points   %     Elo     +/-    W-L-D       1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   11   12   13   14 15 
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 1 Stockfish 18                   38.0/48  79.2  +231.9   75.8  +28-0=20         ==== =1== ==== ==== 1=== =111 1111 111= 1111 1111 1111 1111       
 2 Revolution-5.90-140626         37.5/49  76.5  +205.3   69.2  +26-0=23    ====      ==== =1== ==== ==== 1=11 1=11 111= 11=1 1111 1111 1111    1  
 3 Tarnished v6.0 (Eternal)       36.0/48  75.0  +190.8   72.6  +25-1=22    =0== ====      ==== ==== =1=1 1=== 11=1 1111 1111 1111 1111 111=       
 4 Berserk 14                     35.0/48  72.9  +172.0   73.4  +24-2=22    ==== =0== ====      =0== ==== =11= 1111 1=11 1111 1=11 1111 1111       
 5 Rems M-091024                  33.0/48  68.7  +137.0   56.1  +18-0=30    ==== ==== ==== =1==      ==== 11== 1=1= 11== =1=1 11== 1=11 1111       
 6 Viridithas 20.0.0-dev          32.0/48  66.7  +120.4   66.2  +19-3=26    0=== ==== =0=0 ==== ====      ===1 11== 111= 1111 111= ==11 1111       
 7 Willow 4.0                     24.0/48  50.0    +0.0   76.3  +14-14=20   =000 0=00 0=== =00= 00== ===0      001= ===1 11== 1=11 11=1 1111       
 8 Cheng 4.48a (bundled)          23.0/48  47.9   -14.5   87.0  +17-19=12   0000 0=00 00=0 0000 0=0= 00== 110=      111= 1==1 =11= 1111 1111       
 9 EveAnn 5.0 64-bit (bundled)    15.0/48  31.2  -137.0   81.7  +6-24=18    000= 000= 0000 0=00 00== 000= ===0 000=      0=== 1=== 01== 1111       
10 Myrddin 0.96                   14.0/48  29.2  -154.1   90.0  +7-27=14    0000 00=0 0000 0000 =0=0 0000 00== 0==0 1===      0==1 1=11 011=       
11 IsaBB NN 4.5 (avx2, bundled)   13.5/48  28.1  -163.0   88.6  +6-27=15    0000 0000 0000 0=00 00== 000= 0=00 =00= 0=== 1==0      1==1 111=       
12 Sable 1.6                       9.0/48  18.7  -254.7  109.6  +4-34=10    0000 0000 0000 0000 0=00 ==00 00=0 0000 10== 0=00 0==0      =111       
13 Spike 1.4.1                     3.0/48   6.2  -470.4  248.9  +1-43=4     0000 0000 000= 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 100= 000= =000            
14 Critter 1.6a 64-bit              0.0/0   0.0                 +0-0=0                                                                             
15 monty 1.0.0                      0.0/1   0.0    -inf         +0-1=0           0                                                                 

313/420 total games, 38% draws, time control:120+1, book:avt-2026b.pgn

I was running the tournament when the error occurred, forcing me to reduce the number of engines I had added. The tournament then continued up to the state shown above; I had just added Critter and Monty at that point. However, I don't see what is wrong, and it isn't clear to me exactly where I should be looking.

Which engine is causing problems?

[vencenda]

A new found little bug: a Queen counts as 10 in material counting.

[chessica]

this happens if you have a pairing that utilizes more than a possible scheduler budget and tournament cannot continue.
for example you set core budget in concurrency settings to 1 and try to run 1vs1 ponder on or even some of the engines is set up to use 2 or more threads,
ditto for memory. the GUI already tells you where to look

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 Name                           Points   %     Elo     +/-    W-L-D       1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   11   12   13   14 15 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1 Stockfish 18                   38.0/48  79.2  +231.9   75.8  +28-0=20         ==== =1== ==== ==== 1=== =111 1111 111= 1111 1111 1111 1111       
 2 Revolution-5.90-140626         37.5/49  76.5  +205.3   69.2  +26-0=23    ====      ==== =1== ==== ==== 1=11 1=11 111= 11=1 1111 1111 1111    1  
 3 Tarnished v6.0 (Eternal)       36.0/48  75.0  +190.8   72.6  +25-1=22    =0== ====      ==== ==== =1=1 1=== 11=1 1111 1111 1111 1111 111=       
 4 Berserk 14                     35.0/48  72.9  +172.0   73.4  +24-2=22    ==== =0== ====      =0== ==== =11= 1111 1=11 1111 1=11 1111 1111       
 5 Rems M-091024                  33.0/48  68.7  +137.0   56.1  +18-0=30    ==== ==== ==== =1==      ==== 11== 1=1= 11== =1=1 11== 1=11 1111       
 6 Viridithas 20.0.0-dev          32.0/48  66.7  +120.4   66.2  +19-3=26    0=== ==== =0=0 ==== ====      ===1 11== 111= 1111 111= ==11 1111       
 7 Willow 4.0                     24.0/48  50.0    +0.0   76.3  +14-14=20   =000 0=00 0=== =00= 00== ===0      001= ===1 11== 1=11 11=1 1111       
 8 Cheng 4.48a (bundled)          23.0/48  47.9   -14.5   87.0  +17-19=12   0000 0=00 00=0 0000 0=0= 00== 110=      111= 1==1 =11= 1111 1111       
 9 EveAnn 5.0 64-bit (bundled)    15.0/48  31.2  -137.0   81.7  +6-24=18    000= 000= 0000 0=00 00== 000= ===0 000=      0=== 1=== 01== 1111       
10 Myrddin 0.96                   14.0/48  29.2  -154.1   90.0  +7-27=14    0000 00=0 0000 0000 =0=0 0000 00== 0==0 1===      0==1 1=11 011=       
11 IsaBB NN 4.5 (avx2, bundled)   13.5/48  28.1  -163.0   88.6  +6-27=15    0000 0000 0000 0=00 00== 000= 0=00 =00= 0=== 1==0      1==1 111=       
12 Sable 1.6                       9.0/48  18.7  -254.7  109.6  +4-34=10    0000 0000 0000 0000 0=00 ==00 00=0 0000 10== 0=00 0==0      =111       
13 Spike 1.4.1                     3.0/48   6.2  -470.4  248.9  +1-43=4     0000 0000 000= 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 100= 000= =000            
14 Critter 1.6a 64-bit              0.0/0   0.0                 +0-0=0                                                                             
15 monty 1.0.0                      0.0/1   0.0    -inf         +0-1=0           0                                                                 

313/420 total games, 38% draws, time control:120+1, book:avt-2026b.pgn

I was running the tournament when the error occurred, forcing me to reduce the number of engines I had added. The tournament then continued up to the state shown above; I had just added Critter and Monty at that point. However, I don't see what is wrong, and it isn't clear to me exactly where I should be looking.

Which engine is causing problems?

i found this error

[mar]

A new found little bug: a Queen counts as 10 in material counting.

well, that's intentional. if you look at "the evaluation of material imbalances" by Larry Kaufman, the queen is worth 9.75 rather than the conventional wisdom that it should be 9, so I put it at 10

[mar]

Which engine is causing problems?

ah yes, Critter defaults to threads = number of logical cores instead of 1, not a great default I think, but it can be changed in engine options

[chessica]

Yes, Critter was the cause. However, I had already successfully tested Critter in the test tournament and hadn't changed the settings since. Therefore, I initially ruled it out.

Regarding the EGTB: do they always have to be configured in the engines as well, or is setting the path sufficient?

[mar]

Regarding the EGTB: do they always have to be configured in the engines as well, or is setting the path sufficient?

yes per engine, unless you check the Override engine options checkbox in new tournament and check Use global syzygy path,
it'll then override SyzygyPath using the one you suppied in settings/paths

[bastiball]

Thanks for the wonderful GUI, I'll test it for my incoming tournament of Mini-TCEC with my Ryzen 9 8945hx and RTX 5050. And I'll live stream it.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

The windows are resizable. Just drag the horizontal bar at the top of that window (just below the "material / fifty / men" text) down so that you only see one line.

jm

Thank you very much for your answer. Isn't there a better solution? What I want is that after one engine line appears, there will be a little more space at the bottom - it would look much nicer.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

I have another question, does anyone know how to reduce or enlarge the font in the window below.



Thank you in advance for the information.