+100 elo breakthrough in new rewritten Lco engine ( Ceres)

[AdminX]

From Ted Summers on Ed's forum:

Here is a Boxed version that was uploaded by Chad on Discord. You will need to have Dot Net 5 installed.

Ceres:

Dot Net: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/d ... -installer

Careful.
At least one of the boxed versions was compiled with Debug.
From the dev on Discord an hour ago:
Ceres.exe dated 1/1/2021 12:51pm. We determined that this boxed version was compiled with Debug flags. You can tell because it is under in a directory named "Debug". It needs to be a Release version, the CPU score is about 38 with Debug and 100 with Release, Ceres will be massively slower.

OK.
But what is the exact Ceres.json file?
It needs for debug and release version too!

You created it when the program is started the 1st time, you can edit it after that. In other words on successful 1st startup a script will prompt you for paths and file names. Once the Ceres.json file is created you will no longer be prompted, it you read your saved data from the file. If you are not prompted it is because it see a ceres.json file. If you delete the ceres.json file, you will be prompted for the data and it will re-create the ceres.json file.

[corres]

I beg...
I have Ceres.json file. But what I should write in it to work well the Ceres?
Here everybody talk beside the point??
Obviously on my machine the folder places and names differ from yours, but this is my problem..

[Sylwy]

For those interested:

https://easyupload.io/b0ztbw
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/d ... -installer
https://github.com/dje-dev/Ceres

Thanks
But where is lc0.dll what also need ......................

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... 14/lc0.dll

[AdminX]

I beg...
I have Ceres.json file. But what i should write in to work well the Ceres

Post what you have in it. Or look in this thread for my reply to Dan where I have already posted the content of my ceres.json file on page 5.

[corres]

For those interested:

https://easyupload.io/b0ztbw
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/d ... -installer
https://github.com/dje-dev/Ceres

Thanks
But where is lc0.dll what also need ......................

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... 14/lc0.dll

Thanks.
It works well!
Now it needs the usable UCi commands.
There is no any "help" command or at least I do not know it.

[AdminX]

The problem with Chad's Boxed version has been fixed. lc0.dll in the right subdirectory now.

[mwyoung]

Live Ceres vs Lc0 0.26.3 (J104.1-30) (TC=3m+2s)

Hardware 2950x, RTX 2080TI

The top ten 7 man tablebases.

Opening book to 6 moves

Live Stream:

[corres]

The problem with Chad's Boxed version has been fixed. lc0.dll in the right subdirectory now.

Thanks.
But without commands the Ceres can not work.

[brianr]

But without commands the Ceres can not work.

What commands are you looking for?
There are none of the setoption UCI commands that Lc0 might use as Ceres only uses the Lc0 backend.
Setup commands are in the json file for things like tablebase directories.
The "go" and other playing commands work.

[corres]

Live Ceres vs Lc0 0.26.3 (J104.1-30) (TC=3m+2s)
Hardware 2950x, RTX 2080TI
The top ten 7 man tablebases.
Opening book to 6 moves
Live Stream:

Maybe you make an UCI engine from Ceres?
You outmatched of the developers of Ceres...