Can Anyone Help Me With Rodent 0.16 x64!!!

[geots]

I have no idea what I am looking at in parameters. And that is the ONLY place Fritz 11 or 13 gui will pay any attention to. It is not, I doubt, the least bit interested in an ini engine folder file.

Having said that, the "strength" = "Helpless" in parameters. That is the only important place to be concerned with. What am I supposed to do? I have never seen a variable strength engine on its weakest setting as default. Someone would have to have their front porch light on dim to release it that way.

Look, all I want to do is run it at FULL STRENGTH and nothing else- ever. So what do I do about parameters- change a setting or run it on default?


Thanks very very much for helping me with this one!

george

[ZirconiumX]

Set Strength to GM - it should play at full strength.

Rodent requires there to be no .ini files, text files or .wtf files in its directory - I think the ini files are causing it to play at weakest strength - and it thinks that the other two are books - not ideal I know.

Matthew:out

[PK]

Rodent's *.ini file contains only strings that are used in UCI options panel. In other words, it is meant for registering available levels/personalities, not for setting them.

and Matthew is right that I didn't think about consequences of second *ini file in the folder

[geots]

Rodent's *.ini file contains only strings that are used in UCI options panel. In other words, it is meant for registering available levels/personalities, not for setting them.

and Matthew is right that I didn't think about consequences of second *ini file in the folder

That is not relevant. You could have 300 ini files in the folder and chessbase would not pay a bit of attention to any of them. You got a straight UCI engine- not Winboard adapted to UCI- if you want chessbase to obey a command- it has to be in parameters, or it will be ignored. It will be coming up in Group 6 in the the next RR I start in a couple of days. I finagled around and changed the default strength from "Helpless" to "GM"- so I would not have to save and load a parameter setting. But without a way inside your parameters in the engine- there is no way to really make any elo change from 800 to 2600. I suspect it plays at the same level no matter which "word" you switch out for. And the few blitz games I ran bears that out to be true. It doesn't take but a coupla games to tell the diff. between 800 and 2600. So unless you put out a patched version of some kind that is running at only full strength by the weekend- I will just have to run it on the default- "GM", and hope for the best.


george

[geots]

Pawel, as I suspected it pretty much has to be playing at full strength no matter what word or phrase you give it in your parameters. Just for the hell of it, I set it back on "Helpless"- and after 5 games at 40/3 repeating it was ahead of Pupsi2 0.09: 4-1 . Pretty much the same score you get setting it on "GM"- so for the purposes of strength- it doesn't much matter. As I can assure you, Fritz 11 gui cannot differentiate between 2 words like "Helpless" and "GM". And it doesn't care at all what is in your folder- not interested. That is just the way it works.


gts

[Carlos777]

Hi all,

I don't have this problem with Rodent under Fritz 12 GUI. I use 2 personalities, one is Weak Attack and the other one Club Berserk. The first one is in the 1000 or less ELO range and the latter on the 1900-2000 range.
My problem is with Winboard. It can't read completely all the personalities list. I am not sure how can it work there.

Which I'd like is to use some Glass 1.9 personalities like "Punk". I tried the glass_weak executable, but it crashes sooner or later and when I choose the 64bits version they play too strong (I guess the real strenght of Glass.) All this with Fritz 12 gui.

Best regards,
Carlos

[Graham Banks]

Pawel, as I suspected it pretty much has to be playing at full strength no matter what word or phrase you give it in your parameters. Just for the hell of it, I set it back on "Helpless"- and after 5 games at 40/3 repeating it was ahead of Pupsi2 0.09: 4-1 . Pretty much the same score you get setting it on "GM"- so for the purposes of strength- it doesn't much matter. As I can assure you, Fritz 11 gui cannot differentiate between 2 words like "Helpless" and "GM". And it doesn't care at all what is in your folder- not interested. That is just the way it works.


gts

Set it on "GM" just to be 100% safe.