a modest 5 to 7 elo gain, but now with some of the HekaStockfish presearch code, modified, which I have labeled profound.
The profound (presearch) code does a much wider search early on - I offer two profound settings and they are both simply on and off switches.
As part of my testing , I had determined that the setting should be a higher value as the the time control increases this is done automatically by th e time control selected:
this setting is turned on by default for Honey BlueFish and Black-Diamond and off for Stockfish flavor XIr1 as that version always keep that in sync with cur-dev Stockfish functionally
option name Profound type check default true
the go infinite cand the go depth commands does not use a time control, so there is a second setting called :
option name Deep_Pro_Analysis type check default false which is always off by default.
It is to be used with 15 minute analysis . For longer analysis, say 1 hour , you might be better off using go movetime 3600000 ( or go mt 3600 , mt is in seconds . movetime is in milliseconds
You also now type 's' or 'set' to view all available command line terminal shortcuts
will create and start adding exe's to the release page tomorrow.# Black-Diamond-XI-r1
Black Diamond XI-r1 by T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott
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Shortcut Commands:
setoption name 'option name' value 'value'
is replaced by:
set (or 's'), 'option name' or 'option shortcut' 'value'
Note: set (or 's'), without an 'option' entered displays the shortcuts
'd' is the shortcut for 'depth'
'dpa' is the shortcut for 'Deep_Pro_Analysis'
'g' is the shortcut for 'go'
'i' is the shortcut for 'infinite'
'lp' is the shortcut for 'Large Pages'
'm' is the shortcut for 'Mate'
'mv' is the shortcut for 'MultiPV'
'mt' is the shortcut for 'Movetime'->
Note: 'mt' is in seconds, while
'Movetime' is in milliseconds
'p f' is the shortcut for 'position fen'
'pro' is the shortcut for 'Profound'
'sm' is the shortcut for 'SearchMoves'
Note: 'sm' or 'SearchMoves' MUST be the
last option on the command line!
't' is the shortcut for 'Threads'
'q' is the shortcut for 'quit'
'z' is the shortcut for 'SyzygyPath'
'?' is the shortcut for 'stop'