Honey XI

[MikeB]

Honey XI is now available for download.

The package includes 10 different flavors of engines, those marked with FD also have Fortress Detection code by Joe Ellis.

This included version of Bluefish includes code by Eelco de Groot and is not related to the high threaded Bluefish that shows up occasionally at broadcasted chess matches.

https://github.com/MichaelB7/Stockfish/releases

Scroll to the bottom for all flavors of binaries.

With Linux officially dropping support for 32 bit software in their next major release due in April of 2020, I have not provided any 32 bit Linux exe's

The Pi exe's are provided by Allan Cooper and Lucas Monge provides the 32 bit exe's for Windows, everything else by yours truly.

[Vinvin]

Thanks for all these versions, mike !

Vincent

[MikeB]

Thanks for all these versions, mike !

Vincent

It is my pleasure of course to share.

What follows below is for anyone that may find it useful.

I often get questions on analysis. First, I respect the fact that everyone may have their own method , and I am not saying my way is the best way or only way.

First ,we know every engine has its strengths and weaknesses -so it's best to use multiple engines that are dissimilar enough. I would use three engines:

1. Stockfish or Honey ( but not both as they are too similar)
2. Matefinder or Black-Diamond ( again, pick one or the other as they are too similar)
3. Anyone of the Strong Neural Nets - at the moment I am using a Sergio net as they appear to be quite strong at LTC ( and it's free)

1. The goal is to get a consensus with all 3 engines - may not always happen. One the two A/B engines disagree, will force them to think for while using the other engine's best move , then go back to the original position and see if one of them change it best move to the engine.
2. Pay attention to the evaluation from the NN engine, if the NN engine is scored noticeably higher than the AB engines , that is definitely a move one would want to search more more deeply with the AB engines. It usually indicates that there is a strong positional advantage with the move that one of the AB engines may eventually find if left to search or may not find at all. Search that move in the AB engines, more often than not, the NN is more correct on strong positional moves that may involve a small sacrifice.

How long to search -

It varies by position , some positions are simply dead - neither side can do anything. I do not spend a lot of time on those positions.
Other positions are very sharp and can go either way, you would want spend at least 15 or 20 minutes, and sometime that is not enough, you may have to do an overnight analysis to see a breakthrough.

[peter]

Honey XI is now available for download.

Thanks a lot!
May I ask, what the (to me) new option "Defensive" does?

[Marek Soszynski]

Honey XI is now available for download.

Thanks a lot!
May I ask, what the (to me) new option "Defensive" does?

Great work Mike!

Indeed, what does Defensive do? And what happened to Honey's Brute Force option?

[MikeB]

Honey XI is now available for download.

Thanks a lot!
May I ask, what the (to me) new option "Defensive" does?

Great work Mike!

Indeed, what does Defensive do? And what happened to Honey's Brute Force option?

fewer losses when playing against equal or stronger opponents

Code: Select all

MichaelB7@VM-894787 MINGW64 ~/home/Github/bayeselo/src (master)
$ bayeselo
version 0058, Copyright (C) 1997-2016 Remi Coulom and updated by Michael Byrne.
compiled Feb 13 2020 09:50:25.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License.
See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for details.

ResultSet>rp C:\cluster.mfb\pgn\Big6.pgn
1500 game(s) loaded
ResultSet>elo
ResultSet-EloRating>mm 0 1
00:00:00,00
ResultSet-EloRating>r
Rank Name                 Rating   Δ     +    -     #     Σ    Σ%     W    L    D   W%    =%   OppR
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   1 Honey-XI              3146   0.0   15   15   500  292.0  58.4  115   31  354  23.0  70.8  3091
   2 Stockfish-XI          3141   5.2   16   16   500  286.0  57.2  121   49  330  24.2  66.0  3092
   3 Blue-Honey-XI         3123  17.9   16   16   500  270.5  54.1   96   55  349  19.2  69.8  3095
   4 Bluefish-XI           3104  18.4   16   16   500  254.0  50.8   85   77  338  17.0  67.6  3099
   5 Black-Diamond-XI      3076  28.0   16   16   500  228.0  45.6   63  107  330  12.6  66.0  3105
   6 komodo-13.2.5-64bit   3010  66.0   15   15   500  169.5  33.9   37  198  265   7.4  53.0  3118
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Δ = delta from the next higher rated opponent
  # = number of games played
  Σ = total score, 1 point for win, 1/2 point for draw

ResultSet-EloRating>los
                     Ho St Bl Bl Bl ko
Honey-XI                69 98 99 99100
Stockfish-XI         30    95 99 99100
Blue-Honey-XI         1  4    96 99100
Bluefish-XI           0  0  3    99100
Black-Diamond-XI      0  0  0  0    99
komodo-13.2.5-64bit   0  0  0  0  0


ResultSet-EloRating>d
   1 Honey-XI             3146 500.0 ( 292.0 : 208.0)
                               100.0 ( 50.5 :  49.5) Stockfish-XI         3141
                               100.0 ( 54.5 :  45.5) Blue-Honey-XI        3123
                               100.0 ( 54.0 :  46.0) Bluefish-XI          3104
                               100.0 ( 61.0 :  39.0) Black-Diamond-XI     3076
                               100.0 ( 72.0 :  28.0) komodo-13.2.5-64bit  3010
   2 Stockfish-XI         3141 500.0 ( 286.0 : 214.0)
                               100.0 ( 49.5 :  50.5) Honey-XI             3146
                               100.0 ( 50.0 :  50.0) Blue-Honey-XI        3123
                               100.0 ( 56.5 :  43.5) Bluefish-XI          3104
                               100.0 ( 59.5 :  40.5) Black-Diamond-XI     3076
                               100.0 ( 70.5 :  29.5) komodo-13.2.5-64bit  3010
   3 Blue-Honey-XI        3123 500.0 ( 270.5 : 229.5)
                               100.0 ( 45.5 :  54.5) Honey-XI             3146
                               100.0 ( 50.0 :  50.0) Stockfish-XI         3141
                               100.0 ( 50.0 :  50.0) Bluefish-XI          3104
                               100.0 ( 57.5 :  42.5) Black-Diamond-XI     3076
                               100.0 ( 67.5 :  32.5) komodo-13.2.5-64bit  3010
   4 Bluefish-XI          3104 500.0 ( 254.0 : 246.0)
                               100.0 ( 46.0 :  54.0) Honey-XI             3146
                               100.0 ( 43.5 :  56.5) Stockfish-XI         3141
                               100.0 ( 50.0 :  50.0) Blue-Honey-XI        3123
                               100.0 ( 54.5 :  45.5) Black-Diamond-XI     3076
                               100.0 ( 60.0 :  40.0) komodo-13.2.5-64bit  3010
   5 Black-Diamond-XI     3076 500.0 ( 228.0 : 272.0)
                               100.0 ( 39.0 :  61.0) Honey-XI             3146
                               100.0 ( 40.5 :  59.5) Stockfish-XI         3141
                               100.0 ( 42.5 :  57.5) Blue-Honey-XI        3123
                               100.0 ( 45.5 :  54.5) Bluefish-XI          3104
                               100.0 ( 60.5 :  39.5) komodo-13.2.5-64bit  3010
   6 komodo-13.2.5-64bit  3010 500.0 ( 169.5 : 330.5)
                               100.0 ( 28.0 :  72.0) Honey-XI             3146
                               100.0 ( 29.5 :  70.5) Stockfish-XI         3141
                               100.0 ( 32.5 :  67.5) Blue-Honey-XI        3123
                               100.0 ( 40.0 :  60.0) Bluefish-XI          3104
                               100.0 ( 39.5 :  60.5) Black-Diamond-XI     3076
ResultSet-EloRating>

Also I just ported my version of bayeselo to Windows

so if you like that type of output above for your games , feel free "rp" is short for readpgn, one of several keyboard shortcuts I added

commands:

rp pgnfile
elo
mm 0 1
###then you can do one or more of these commands
r ( shortcut for rating)
los ( likelihood of superiority)
d (shortcut details)

link: https://github.com/MichaelB7/bayeselo/b ... yeselo.exe

no dll required -which is why it is so huge

Also, the Weakfish engine is a bruteforce engine - so that replaced the option

[MOBMAT]

Did you apply the SF11 mate score problem?

it fixes #2533, #2543, #2423.

[MikeB]

Did you apply the SF11 mate score problem?

it fixes #2533, #2543, #2423.

Not yet , that just got pushed. Will do so and issue an updated bleeding edge binary when I get back home ima fee days. I had noticed that issue as well, doesn’t really affect game play , but it’s very annoying from a user perspective. Hence the need to update the bleeding edge binaries . Look for it by Wednesday.

[TobM]

Hi, first of all thank you very much Mike and all the others involved in the project for providing uns with the Honey engine! I am not sure if someone has already done it, but I have managed to compile binaries for Android and so far they seem to work well in DroidFish and an old version of AcidApeChess on Android 8.0.0. In case someone is interested to test them I can provide the binaries or instructions how to compile (some changes in the Makefile and also minor changes in the code was needed).

[odyn1982]

Please share binaries for Android. I have been waiting for this for a long time.