Any ZCT tests?

[F. Bluemers]

I bet you already know,but just in case (and for others reading this)
there is a newer dirty version out
dirty120308.

http://webs.ono.com/a.valverde/dirty.htm

best
Fonzy

[Zach Wegner]

Thanks for the testing Tony, the first rating ZCT has. Now I just have to figure out why it's doing so crappily... Maybe it's just a combination of a low amount of games and because the average opponent is a lot weaker than it? Who knows, but results like this are a good motivator for progress!

[Tony Thomas]

Thanks for the testing Tony, the first rating ZCT has. Now I just have to figure out why it's doing so crappily... Maybe it's just a combination of a low amount of games and because the average opponent is a lot weaker than it? Who knows, but results like this are a good motivator for progress!

I use offset 2300, may be that has something to do with the rating..I am not sure if you have heard of WBEC, your engine would qualifty for division 4. There are many possibilities for the crappy rating.

1) Low number of games
2) weak opponents, ZCT is scoring 70%..
3) ZCT doesnt like 1min+1sec time control...

Shall I go on?

Bluemers, I know about the new Dirty, I cant play with everything on a single computer you know??

[Zach Wegner]

I use offset 2300, may be that has something to do with the rating..I am not sure if you have heard of WBEC, your engine would qualifty for division 4.

Yeah, of course I've heard of WBEC. I'm kind of waiting to send Leo anything until I get _every_ bug fixed, I get the eval tuned up a bit, and I get a nice book to play with. I regard this release as basically a public beta...

There are many possibilities for the crappy rating.

1) Low number of games
2) weak opponents, ZCT is scoring 70%..
3) ZCT doesnt like 1min+1sec time control...

Shall I go on?

I don't know if TC would be a problem. ZCT has crappy eval, good search, so I guess it might balance it out more in longer TCs.

Another quite likely possibility is that I've introduced a bug since I was last testing for strength.

And if you have any other suggestions, I would love to hear them.

[geots]

I didn't compile it. I didn't release it. Ask Jim. I've said before that SMP is buggy right now...

All i know is you cannot run the SP 32-bit version in Chessbase, because i cannot get it to use more than 4mb main hash- and as straight UCI it wont obey any hash changes from the ini file. And where exactly is the opening book it is using? It is using one from somewhere, and i cant find the file.

[Tony Thomas]

I didn't compile it. I didn't release it. Ask Jim. I've said before that SMP is buggy right now...

All i know is you cannot run the SP 32-bit version in Chessbase, because i cannot get it to use more than 4mb main hash- and as straight UCI it wont obey any hash changes from the ini file. And where exactly is the opening book it is using? It is using one from somewhere, and i cant find the file.

George, one day I am going to convert you to an arena man..

[geots]

I didn't compile it. I didn't release it. Ask Jim. I've said before that SMP is buggy right now...

All i know is you cannot run the SP 32-bit version in Chessbase, because i cannot get it to use more than 4mb main hash- and as straight UCI it wont obey any hash changes from the ini file. And where exactly is the opening book it is using? It is using one from somewhere, and i cant find the file.

George, one day I am going to convert you to an arena man..

You really wanna help- I need Goat for a couple days.

[Graham Banks]

[Graham Banks]

I didn't compile it. I didn't release it. Ask Jim. I've said before that SMP is buggy right now...

All i know is you cannot run the SP 32-bit version in Chessbase, because i cannot get it to use more than 4mb main hash- and as straight UCI it wont obey any hash changes from the ini file. And where exactly is the opening book it is using? It is using one from somewhere, and i cant find the file.

Try the version I sent you. Works fine.

[Zach Wegner]

I didn't compile it. I didn't release it. Ask Jim. I've said before that SMP is buggy right now...

All i know is you cannot run the SP 32-bit version in Chessbase, because i cannot get it to use more than 4mb main hash- and as straight UCI it wont obey any hash changes from the ini file. And where exactly is the opening book it is using? It is using one from somewhere, and i cant find the file.

Yeah, that's a result of Jim's protocol=UCI fix. It won't take the commands because "hash trans x" and the sort aren't UCI commands. I'm not sure really why it needs this fix at all, but apparently it still does. I'll try to get it fixed soon...