Alex 2.02 Update

[swami]

http://home.comcast.net/~blais_normand/

[swami]

Alex 2.02
by Normand M. Blais, USA.

Strategic Test Suite Conditions:

Core2Quad 32 bits, Q6600, 2 GB RAM, 2.4GHZ
10 seconds per position
900 positions
Engine uses 101 Mb Hash.
Single CPU
Arena GUI


Overall Performance:

• Total Score: 422/900 [.....] Average : 46.88% [.....] Grade: D [.....] Total Rated Time: 88.283/150 minutes [5297 Seconds/9000 Seconds]= 0.558

Subject-wise Scores:

STS (v1.0) - Undermining:
57/100, Grade: C+

STS (v2.1) - Open Files and Diagonals:
47/100, Grade: D

STS (v3.0) - Knight Outposts/Centralization/Repositioning:
46/100, Grade: D

STS (v4.1) - Square Vacancy:
52/100, Grade: C

STS (v5.0) - Bishop vs Knight:
55/100, Grade: C+

STS (v6.0) - Re-Capturing:
51/100, Grade: C

STS (v7.0) - Offer of Simplification:
48/100, Grade: D

STS (v8.1) - Advancement of f/g/h Pawns:
27 /100, Grade: ?

STS (v9.0) - Advancement of a/b/c Pawns:
39/100, Grade: ?

Best Wishes,
Swami

[Richard Allbert]

Thanks, using it for my testing.

It's one of the weaker engines that never <crashes / looses on time/ breaks a rule> in 1000's of games

Also, for anyone needed 2000 engines for lots of test games, some great stable weaker engines (just UCI here for ultrafast games with Cutechess, I use others engines for normal blitz with WB) are

Roce (I've never had a crash or time loss no matter what the tc)
Pawny 0.15
Matheus 2.3
Monarch 1.7
Bikjump 2.01

Regards

Richard

PS Thanks again for your work on STS

[swami]

You're welcome, Richard. Yes, those engines you've listed are the most stable.

You might also like adding BSC 3.7f to the list, it was being developed for nearly 10 years and has similar scores (406/900) in STS.

[Richard Allbert]

Will do, thanks for the tip!!

Richard