Polyglot 1.4w Released

[bnemias]

There are several compiler warnings (especially using a MS compiler) still present. I had made changes to remove all of the gcc warnings, but those changes aren't in the current 1.4w tree.

For MS compilers, at warning level 3, there were 18 warnings, and over 200 at warning level 4, which is why the makefile I supplied for MS doesn't have any warning options included. It's easy enough to at least comply with warning level 3-- 14 of the 18 were easy to silence because it was clear the obvious way to silence them was safe. The remaining 4 were all in book_make.cpp, conversion from unsigned __int64 to int which weren't obvious to me they were safe, eg:

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   for (index = key & Book->mask; (pos=Book->hash[index]) != NIL; index = (index+1) & Book->mask) {

key is uint64 while Book->mask is int.

At some point it's worth getting these cleaned up because they represent potential bugs. It would be nice to get warning level 4 to compile cleanly before any kind of "stable" release.

[Denis P. Mendoza]

Yes, Fonzy you are right. I just found out his real name is Huang Chen (also the author of XiangQi Wizard (Chinese Chess Wizard) of Shanghai Computer Chess Research Center).

Michel,

If you want to contact Huang Chen try here:
eMail: webmaster@elephantbase.net

[Michel]

no ,the cywinless port (and pipestruct) is from the chinese author "Morning Yellow" who also created mobile chess (wccc 2008) http://sourceforge.net/project/shownote ... _id=196069

Yes, Fonzy you are right. I just found out his real name is Huang Chen (also the author of XiangQi Wizard (Chinese Chess Wizard) of Shanghai Computer Chess Research Center).

Ok thanks a lot!! But then Huang Chen should be listed as an author I think

[Michel]

Ok I put up a new version of my tree up here

http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algeb ... t-release/

with an extended AUTHORS file.

[F. Bluemers]

This one moves a bit closer to Michel his polyglot version.
It is still oldfashioned though
It now uses the UseNice/NiceValue mechanism.
Logs the polyglot's version number.
I also did some code cleanup.
The link to Michel's version is on my website now.
Best
Fonzy

[Dirt]

This one moves a bit closer to Michel his polyglot version.
It is still oldfashioned though :wink:
It now uses the UseNice/NiceValue mechanism.
Logs the polyglot's version number.
I also did some code cleanup.
The link to Michel's version is on my website now.
Best
Fonzy

Thanks for your (and other's) continued work on Polyglot.

I think it would help people keep track of what they are doing if you at least changed the name of the zip file for each release.

[ernest]

I think it would help people keep track of what they are doing if you at least changed the name of the zip file for each release.

I renamed it polyglot1.4w12 (10 january 2008).zip

[F. Bluemers]

Polyglot 1.4w14 with a new feature:
A global ini file:
After reading the users's ini file (the default polyglot.ini or the ini file supplied on the command line),
polyglot checks if there exists a file "globals.ini" and reads this one too.
Entries in global.ini overrides the previous values,
except for "LogFile" and "NoGlobals",which are ignored.
This is usefull if you want to set some values (Hash f.i.) same for all engines .

added a new option for the [polyglot] section in the user's ini file:
- NoGlobals : if set true, the globals.ini will not be read.

global.ini could look like this:

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[POLYGLOT]
; just an example globals.ini file

log = true
logfile = global.log ; no effect!

PostDelay = 1 ; don't spam us

Book = true
BookFile = randomfun.bin ;same book for all engines

[Engine]

OwnBook = false

Hash = 64
MultiPv = 1  ; turn off multipv 
NalimovCache = 32
NalimovPath = C:\Tablebases\TB4

Best
Fonzy

[Michel]

Nice idea!

But wouldn't it be more logical if global.ini was read before the user's .ini?

[hgm]

I guess that you don't want to redo all the existing users .ini files to remove the parameters that are set in the global.ini. In the current scheme you only have to touch the user .ini of broken engines that somehow cannot run with the global settings, and need to be pampered.