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Re: Linux friendly engines at all levels
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:49 am
by flok
Embla is primarily developed on linux.
2.0.0 is ~2174 elo
Re: Linux friendly engines at all levels
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:18 am
by hgm
Fairy-Max is fully Linux compliant, and is even available as Debian package or from the repositories of most Linux distros as binary package.
Re: Linux friendly engines at all levels
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:01 am
by brtzsnr
You can pick one of the older versions of Zurichess. Binaries here:
http://www.zurichess.xyz/downloads/
The last version is close to 2900, but previous versions are in the desired Elo range.
Re: Linux friendly engines at all levels
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 12:36 pm
by abulmo2
Also, several old engines have been compiled for Linux by Jim Ablett and are available here:
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... ENGINES%20++/
Re: Linux friendly engines at all levels
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:49 pm
by Volodya
Dear all,
Thank you for all your replies. I was pleasantly surprised to see the response rate! This looks like a very vibrant community indeed.
I am working through your replies and, so far, I believe I only had one issue: I did not have the LLVM gold plugin for DUMB (I am trying to keep the installs as light as possible).
Thanks,
V.
Re: Linux friendly engines at all levels
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 4:17 pm
by xr_a_y
Volodya wrote: ↑Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:49 pm
Dear all,
Thank you for all your replies. I was pleasantly surprised to see the response rate! This looks like a very vibrant community indeed.
I am working through your replies and, so far, I believe I only had one issue: I did not have the LLVM gold plugin for DUMB (I am trying to keep the installs as light as possible).
Thanks,
V.
You can try to compile without -flto
Re: Linux friendly engines at all levels
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:11 pm
by Volodya
xr_a_y wrote: ↑Thu Jan 24, 2019 4:17 pm
Volodya wrote: ↑Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:49 pm
Dear all,
Thank you for all your replies. I was pleasantly surprised to see the response rate! This looks like a very vibrant community indeed.
I am working through your replies and, so far, I believe I only had one issue: I did not have the LLVM gold plugin for DUMB (I am trying to keep the installs as light as possible).
Thanks,
V.
You can try to compile without -flto
Thanks for the suggestion. It indeed works, modulo the deletion of the appropriate commands in the makefile. This is something I did not want to do at first because it feels as an alteration to the engine intended by the developer. Anyway, since it's done, here is the makefile I used for successful compilation (in case this can help anyone):
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#
# Makefile to compile dumb
#
SRC = dumb.d util.d board.d eval.d move.d search.d
DC = ldc2
#lcd2
FFLAGS = -O3 -release -singleobj -w -dw -dip25
DFLAGS = -O0 -g -gc -dip25
PFLAGS = -O1 -w -dw -dip25
CFLAGS = $(PFLAGS) -cov
# executable target
EXE = dumb
pgo:$(SRC)
$(MAKE) clean
$(DC) $(FFLAGS) $(SRC)
debug:$(SRC)
$(DC) $(DFLAGS) $(SRC)
cov:$(SRC)
$(DC) $(CFLAGS) $(SRC)
clean:
$(RM) *.o *.profraw *.profdata *.lst
Re: Linux friendly engines at all levels
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:43 pm
by Volodya
Evert wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:38 pm
Might I suggest though that you use something like Stockfish or Komodo at time odds? You want to spend. CPU time on your program, afterall.
Thanks for the suggestions, Evert. May I ask you to precise the above sentences? I did not quite get what you meant. I do have Stockfish 8 installed, but I have a long way to go (if that is even feasible) before being able to get anything useful from games against such fine engines, even in one of their old versions.
V.
Re: Linux friendly engines at all levels
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:02 am
by hgm
What he means is that you can use a strong engine (say Stockfish) to simulate a much weaker opponent by allowing it to think only a tiny fraction of the time a truly weak engine would have had to think. It would save you nearly half the CPU time during test games if the opponent would move 100 times faster than the engine under test.
Re: Linux friendly engines at all levels
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 9:38 am
by abulmo2
Volodya wrote: ↑Thu Jan 24, 2019 6:11 pm
Thanks for the suggestion. It indeed works, modulo the deletion of the appropriate commands in the makefile. This is something I did not want to do at first because it feels as an alteration to the engine intended by the developer.
You can also use the binary provided in the github repository. Avoiding both flto and pgo will slow down Dumb by about 8% and make it a little bit weaker.