Free Playchess accounts for original engine authors

[Michel]

the generic 'free' playchess client does not allow engine use
you need fritz

Why are people interested in this Playchess thing????

No free client, no linux client...

[JBNielsen]

the generic 'free' playchess client does not allow engine use
you need fritz

Why are people interested in this Playchess thing????

No free client, no linux client...

Agree.

It has not been stated in this thread, that you need fritz.
The first post said you could use fritz OR playchess.

I start to feel I am wasting my time.
(I assume fritz is not for free?!)

Are there other places, where your engine can play against humans for free?
And that are easy to use?

[kranium]

the generic 'free' playchess client does not allow engine use
you need fritz

Why are people interested in this Playchess thing????

No free client, no linux client...

good point...
some must pay twice
once for playchess suscription...
then they decide to play engine vs engine
now, once more for fritz

best bet: many versions of fritz include 1 year playchess

what's the challenge of engine vs engine on playchess?
choosing and configuring hardware
creating/tuning an opening book

believe it or not, a good opening book can drive you to the top of the rankings without top hardware
for ex: the sicilian
http://thesicilian.forumotion.net/t4321 ... nt-results

[hgm]

Are there other places, where your engine can play against humans for free?
And that are easy to use?

FICS (freechess.org). Don't know if you can get free engine accounts on ICC anymore.

[Richard Allbert]

As HG said,

FICS - freechess.org

Jabba has played about 30k games there in the past few months, human players seem to enjoy playing engines they can beat.

I've been running Jabba in the engine room on Playchess also, but I have the Fritz 13 GUI. It gets hammered by Houdini most of the time with the odd miracle draw.

Best of luck

Richard

[Michel]

Don't know if you can get free engine accounts on ICC anymore.

They claim you can get one if you have a human account and you are the original author of the engine.

When I was registered at ICC i tried to get a computer account for running
my gnuchess development branch but the admins did not even bother replying (in fact it seems they never reply to anything, they just take your money). So of course I cancelled my human account as well.

[Albert Silver]

the generic 'free' playchess client does not allow engine use
you need fritz

Why are people interested in this Playchess thing????

No free client, no linux client...

good point...
some must pay twice
once for playchess suscription...
then they decide to play engine vs engine
now, once more for fritz

best bet: many versions of fritz include 1 year playchess

what's the challenge of engine vs engine on playchess?
choosing and configuring hardware
creating/tuning an opening book

believe it or not, a good opening book can drive you to the top of the rankings without top hardware
for ex: the sicilian
http://thesicilian.forumotion.net/t4321 ... nt-results

I'm afraid it is correct: you cannot run an engine-engine game without the Fritz GUI, which can be any version as of v8 to the current v13 as far as I understood.

There is little I can do about the need for the GUI, though I can say that authors who do purchase it, do not need to use the Playchess serial it comes with as a part of their engine account. They can use it as a personal player account (to renew or not in the future as they wish), and enjoy the perk of the free Engine Author account separately.