Myracle GUI

[Mark 1]

hi...

Thank you very much for the quick reply. Yes, I can understand that, especially when several games are running in parallel.
But what about showing just one game as a kibitzer and displaying its evaluation in the evaluation graph?

Mark 1

[cjug74]

What should be the way to create a Tournament where each engine uses its own book?

I tried by checking the Own Book setting on some bundled Engines and choosing a blank slot in the Book option of the Tournament but it didn't work. The Engine logs "BOOK ENABLED" message when it boots up but it starts thinking on move 1, not using its book.

I had the same issue when trying that on an individual game.

yes, that's the correct way to do it - enable OwnBook (assuming it's an UCI engine) and select no book in the GUI, just tried and it works.
of course the GUI has no way of knowing if the engine actually uses own book or not - it'll only get bestmove from the engine,
whether is comes from a book or search the GUI has no way of knowing

note that the bundled cheng isn't packaged with a book, so it won't work

Thank you for the response Martin. As an update, the aforementioned issue happens to me only with bundled Eveann 5.0 engine. I continued to test the others (minus Cheng which I noted has no book with it) and they worked as expected, i.e., they use their book when Own Book option is checked.

So it seems it's a particular issue of Eveann engine.

Can happen because EveAnn book is huge and it is loaded in memory at start up, maybe it exceeds the accepted starting time.

In fact own book for EveAnn is used only for ICS connections (monthly tour and so on) , I didnt try it with cute/myracle.

EDIT : Anyway... do you happen to have it in a mechanical HD or a slow SSD ? Because I tried here and loaded ok

KINGSTON SNV2S1000G
Firmware: SBM02103
Interface: NVM Express
Transfer mode: PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4

Lucky me to have downloaded before; Martin mentioned you asked him to remove the book. I wanted to have eveann.bk anyway.

[Gabor Szots]

Dear Martin,

I'd like to have three minor adjustments:

1. Path names (e.g. that of syzygy, when configuring an engine) to be possible to browse. To avoid typos, mainly.
2. When selecting book for a tournament, I'd like to be able to select more than those 10 which can be pre-configured. Possibly also by browsing.
3. Tick boxes more visible, maybe surrounded by somewhat thicker lines for easier detection.

Gabor

[mar]

Dear Martin,

I'd like to have three minor adjustments:

1. Path names (e.g. that of syzygy, when configuring an engine) to be possible to browse. To avoid typos, mainly.
2. When selecting book for a tournament, I'd like to be able to select more than those 10 which can be pre-configured. Possibly also by browsing.
3. Tick boxes more visible, maybe surrounded by somewhat thicker lines for easier detection.

Gabor

Hi Gabor,

I'll see what I can do.

1) With paths, at least for UCI protocol, there's no distinction between a string option, filename or pathname, so I'd have to guess a standardized name (like SyzygyPath) - could do that, probably.
by the way when starting a tour, there is "override engine options" checkbox below the participants. if you click it, you can manually
override certain options, including global syzygy path (which you can define in settings/paths). note the the override is only active if the master "Override engine options" checkbox is checked

2) browsing not due to how things are implemented (it's tricky to present a lot of functionality with limited UI space), but I can give you 50 sets instead of 10

3) I could do that, but it will be off by default and you'd have to enable it in appearance settings, probably

[Gabor Szots]

Dear Martin,

I'd like to have three minor adjustments:

1. Path names (e.g. that of syzygy, when configuring an engine) to be possible to browse. To avoid typos, mainly.
2. When selecting book for a tournament, I'd like to be able to select more than those 10 which can be pre-configured. Possibly also by browsing.
3. Tick boxes more visible, maybe surrounded by somewhat thicker lines for easier detection.

Gabor

Hi Gabor,

I'll see what I can do.

1) With paths, at least for UCI protocol, there's no distinction between a string option, filename or pathname, so I'd have to guess a standardized name (like SyzygyPath) - could do that, probably.
by the way when starting a tour, there is "override engine options" checkbox below the participants. if you click it, you can manually
override certain options, including global syzygy path (which you can define in settings/paths). note the the override is only active if the master "Override engine options" checkbox is checked

2) browsing not due to how things are implemented (it's tricky to present a lot of functionality with limited UI space), but I can give you 50 sets instead of 10

3) I could do that, but it will be off by default and you'd have to enable it in appearance settings, probably

1) is OK as it is now, do not bother.

2) I'll do with 20 sets.

3) That's OK for me.

[mar]

build 59 is up:
- increased number of book sets to 20
- optional thick checkbox frame
- egt path in engine options has folder picker
- autodetect button in concurrency settings

[Gabor Szots]

build 59 is up:
- increased number of book sets to 20
- optional thick checkbox frame
- egt path in engine options has folder picker
- autodetect button in concurrency settings

Thank you very much, Martin.

[JVMerlino]

Does anyone know how to remove this - what I marked with a red arrow.

There is not a way to remove them. It's only one little bit of text at the bottom, so no problem for me.

[mar]

build 60 is up:
- fix: debug log can resume after tour load/GUI restart
- paste PGN shows a warning if out of scheduler budget
- error bars now with 1 decimal digit

[JVMerlino]

The author of the program was supposed to remove it and somehow forgot.

Of course not. They are there for a reason. You are free to ignore them.