Ace 0.1 search depth / move times

[Guenther]

When testing a version of Shatranj I plugged it against Ace 0.1 from Adam Adair and noticed again that Ace always moves immediately.
I never had it tested for the RWBC classes, because it appeared too late for them. Yet I had it play in a few rapid tournaments for my old rating list
and I now remembered that symptom(confirmed in other posts here).

It even has an uci option 'Search Depth', but it does nothing here.
(values are impractical anyway: min=0 default=0 max=20)
A check of the still available sources revealed that despite that option
the search depth appears to be fixed at depth 5!
I guess this is the reason for its behaviour.

If someone wants to try to fix it, the sources are here:
http://code.google.com/p/ace-chess/

[Guenther]

When testing a version of Shatranj I plugged it against Ace 0.1 from Adam Adair and noticed again that Ace always moves immediately.
I never had it tested for the RWBC classes, because it appeared too late for them. Yet I had it play in a few rapid tournaments for my old rating list
and I now remembered that symptom(confirmed in other posts here).

It even has an uci option 'Search Depth', but it does nothing here.
(values are impractical anyway: min=0 default=0 max=20)
A check of the still available sources revealed that despite that option
the search depth appears to be fixed at depth 5!
I guess this is the reason for its behaviour.

If someone wants to try to fix it, the sources are here:
http://code.google.com/p/ace-chess/

bump!

According to the sources 'SearchDepth' is used instead of the uci option 'Search Depth'. But even then it is fixed to max depth 5 in the available exe. (the uci option probably was planned for further releases)

Of course it must have a few big search bugs too, still it would be nice if someone could compile a version with a higher depth.

sources:
http://code.google.com/p/ace-chess/[/quote]

[cdani]

When testing a version of Shatranj I plugged it against Ace 0.1 from Adam Adair and noticed again that Ace always moves immediately.
I never had it tested for the RWBC classes, because it appeared too late for them. Yet I had it play in a few rapid tournaments for my old rating list
and I now remembered that symptom(confirmed in other posts here).

It even has an uci option 'Search Depth', but it does nothing here.
(values are impractical anyway: min=0 default=0 max=20)
A check of the still available sources revealed that despite that option
the search depth appears to be fixed at depth 5!
I guess this is the reason for its behaviour.

If someone wants to try to fix it, the sources are here:
http://code.google.com/p/ace-chess/

bump!

According to the sources 'SearchDepth' is used instead of the uci option 'Search Depth'. But even then it is fixed to max depth 5 in the available exe. (the uci option probably was planned for further releases)

Of course it must have a few big search bugs too, still it would be nice if someone could compile a version with a higher depth.

sources:
http://code.google.com/p/ace-chess/

[/quote]

Hi. I tried but is not a finished engine. It has basic things to do, and despite increasing the depth to 100 it plays instantly because is not a functional engine.

[Guenther]

When testing a version of Shatranj I plugged it against Ace 0.1 from Adam Adair and noticed again that Ace always moves immediately.
I never had it tested for the RWBC classes, because it appeared too late for them. Yet I had it play in a few rapid tournaments for my old rating list
and I now remembered that symptom(confirmed in other posts here).

It even has an uci option 'Search Depth', but it does nothing here.
(values are impractical anyway: min=0 default=0 max=20)
A check of the still available sources revealed that despite that option
the search depth appears to be fixed at depth 5!
I guess this is the reason for its behaviour.

If someone wants to try to fix it, the sources are here:
http://code.google.com/p/ace-chess/

bump!

According to the sources 'SearchDepth' is used instead of the uci option 'Search Depth'. But even then it is fixed to max depth 5 in the available exe. (the uci option probably was planned for further releases)

Of course it must have a few big search bugs too, still it would be nice if someone could compile a version with a higher depth.

sources:
http://code.google.com/p/ace-chess/

Hi. I tried but is not a finished engine. It has basic things to do, and despite increasing the depth to 100 it plays instantly because is not a functional engine.

Ok, thanks for your attempt Daniel!