Playing against an engine under SCID

[Amstaff]

Hello, I use SCID mostly as a database, but would like to play a few games against the analysis engines. I just loaded Deep Junior 11.1a and played a blitz game against it. It seemed to play in a handicap mode, giving away pawns everywhere and making harmless King moves, even in the opening.
Has anyone played games using SCID? It is a great database.
Thanks,
Gerald

[pgeorges]

Did you try another engine, like Toga that comes with Scid ?

[royb]

Hello, I use SCID mostly as a database, but would like to play a few games against the analysis engines. I just loaded Deep Junior 11.1a and played a blitz game against it. It seemed to play in a handicap mode, giving away pawns everywhere and making harmless King moves, even in the opening.
Has anyone played games using SCID? It is a great database.
Thanks,
Gerald

I play games using SCID against engines like Stockfish, Toga, Fruit, Rybka-3, Spark, Komodo ...

They play bloody strong and wipe the floor with me every single time.

I also play Crafty using Xboard (I run Linux; you could also use WinBoard on Windows) and use the SKILL parameter to weaken it enough so I can have a decent game with it.

Roy

[Amstaff]

Hello, I tried Toga and it played very strong as expected. Perhaps there is something wrong with Junior. In principle I should be able to load Hiarcs, Shredder, Deep Sjeng, etc. under SCID and they should work fine, don't you think?
Thanks for your reply.
Gerald

[David Dahlem]

Hello, I use SCID mostly as a database, but would like to play a few games against the analysis engines. I just loaded Deep Junior 11.1a and played a blitz game against it. It seemed to play in a handicap mode, giving away pawns everywhere and making harmless King moves, even in the opening.
Has anyone played games using SCID? It is a great database.
Thanks,
Gerald

You can download an evaluation version of Deep Junior 11.1a here.

http://www.hiarcs.com/pc-chess-junior-download.htm

This version plays very weak, actually seeming to avoid winning. Is it possible that's what you are using?