Myracle GUI

[chessica]

I had already spotted it and was waiting to see when you’d notice it too.

I also added ELOstat for myself.

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    Program                          Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.  Draws

  1 Rems M-091024                  : 3710  101  83    40    82.5 %   3440   35.0 %
  2 Stockfish 18                   : 3676   90  74    40    78.8 %   3449   42.5 %
  3 EveAnn 5.0 64-bit (bundled)    : 3423   81  83    40    37.5 %   3512   45.0 %
  4 IsaBB NN 4.5 (avx2, bundled)   : 3368   98 101    40    28.7 %   3526   27.5 %
  5 Myrddin 0.95 (bundled)         : 3322   81  91    40    22.5 %   3537   40.0 %

[mar]

it was supposed to be a surprise (I didn't even mention it) but you guys found it quickly...

only png, gif and bmp (8, 24 and 32-bit uncompressed) logos supported (not jpeg because my framework cannot load these, at least not yet)
has to be set up manually (per engine) and enabled in appearance settings

[F.Huber]

it was supposed to be a surprise (I didn't even mention it) but you guys found it quickly...

Well, not the first surprise - that was already the navigation bar.
So maybe we'll see a few further surprises in the future (?) ...

There are a few features (for Human vs. Engine games) that are standard in any serious chess GUI and would make Myracle perfect even when playing myself against an engine, and not just in engine matches.

The most important functions would be the following:
1) a combined 'Start/Stop' button in the navigation bar:
a) shows 'Start' when it's the player's turn and tells the engine to make the next move (i.e. switches sides)
b) shows 'Stop' when the engine is thinking and forces it to move immediately (makes 'Edit > Move now' needless).
2) an extra 'Edit' button (or switch) in the navigation bar that temporarily switches to 'Human vs. Human' mode, so the player can enter any sequence of moves before leaving this mode again and continue playing against the engine.
3) the options 'Edit > Setup board / Paste FEN / Paste PGN' should definitely load the position or game into the current (active) tab and not always in the 'scratchpad' tab - so you could play against the currently loaded engine starting with the loaded position (or continue a loaded unfinished game).
4) and finally Myracle should definitely save the window size & position and restore it at the next start - almost all Windows (not only chess) programs do this!
Your argument against it sounds a bit strange to me - how often is a user switching the screen resolution!? And even then it's very unlikely that the window disappears after such a change.

With these 4 features, Myracle would be almost perfect in my opinion.

Regards,
Franz

[Wilhelm]

Hi Martin, I found one thing that should be changed if possible. When a engine find the correct move with less minimal ply and the time is over the solving time is the given time (in my set 157sec). Instead it should "always" get the time when the move is found (eg 85sec). Can this be done? Thank you.

William

[mar]

Hi Martin, I found one thing that should be changed if possible. When a engine find the correct move with less minimal ply and the time is over the solving time is the given time (in my set 157sec). Instead it should "always" get the time when the move is found (eg 85sec). Can this be done? Thank you.

William

ah yes, good point. yes I think the time should be the first time that move is found (after a move change). I'll try to fix that in the next build
EDIT: actually, this should work in general;
if a move is received that fails the solution, time to solution is reset, otherwise first time it's solved and move doesn't change should be kept as time to solution
also the depth reported should be the first depth the move was found (after a move change), not after min ply was reached

[mar]

1) a combined 'Start/Stop' button in the navigation bar:
a) shows 'Start' when it's the player's turn and tells the engine to make the next move (i.e. switches sides)
b) shows 'Stop' when the engine is thinking and forces it to move immediately (makes 'Edit > Move now' needless).
2) an extra 'Edit' button (or switch) in the navigation bar that temporarily switches to 'Human vs. Human' mode, so the player can enter any sequence of moves before leaving this mode again and continue playing against the engine.
3) the options 'Edit > Setup board / Paste FEN / Paste PGN' should definitely load the position or game into the current (active) tab and not always in the 'scratchpad' tab - so you could play against the currently loaded engine starting with the loaded position (or continue a loaded unfinished game).
4) and finally Myracle should definitely save the window size & position and restore it at the next start - almost all Windows (not only chess) programs do this!
Your argument against it sounds a bit strange to me - how often is a user switching the screen resolution!? And even then it's very unlikely that the window disappears after such a change.

ad 1) as I explained before, switching sides wouldn't be easy so not planned, after all the GUI is primarily focused on eng-eng tours, not human-eng games. next time people will ask for DGT support or tracking elo or whatever
ad 2/3) you can already start the game from a FEN if you paste the edited FEN there, but starting from an existing tab/pgn sounds interesting, I'll think about it
ad 4) this can also happen if a monitor is disconnected or fails to detect, either way I'm not going to implement this feature at the moment,
see nothing wrong about maximizing on default monitor (default = parent spawning process monitor, typically or primary system monitor)

[chessica]

Hi Martin,

I have another question about the tournament. I’ve already run and completed one, but now I’d like to continue it—keeping the matches played so far and simply adding the games for a newly added engine, as if that engine had been there from the start. Is that possible? If so, how?

[mar]

Hi Martin,

I have another question about the tournament. I’ve already run and completed one, but now I’d like to continue it—keeping the matches played so far and simply adding the games for a newly added engine, as if that engine had been there from the start. Is that possible? If so, how?

it is. first you need to load the tournament, .tour file either using drag and drop or file/open, look in tournaments/ subfolder
then you click the edit tournament button and add a new engine by double-clicking one from installed engines and click ok

note that advanced editing (adding/removing engines) is only possible in round-robin and gauntlet tournaments

[mar]

build 70 is up:
- fix: kbkb endgames now adjudicated as a draw by insufficient material if all bishops are the same (all light/all dark)
- user adjudication for comp-comp games and resign in human-eng games
- new game can be started from actual position in actual tab (possibly including move history)
- basic support for jpeg logos (only baseline dct with huffman)
- epd suites: time to solution and depth reported matches the first time move was found (after a change of mind)
(note that multipv is now force-disabled for UCI engines as it would interfere with the above)

[Mark 1]

Hello Martin,

thank you once again for the great update.
The ability to manually evaluate games now is a huge help for my specific use cases.
With this, the program really has everything I need to organize tournaments smoothly and without any issues.

Regards,
Mark 1