Asking for a favor

[Michael Sherwin]

RomiChess has just completed playing 400 games against itself and 400 games against Stockfish 8, 4 threads. Learning was enabled and started from a new learn file. Now I want to run Romi through a large 2 round gauntlet of engines of similar strength from the starting position. Once with learning turned off and once using the learn file from the above training. The problem is I do not have enough engines for the gauntlet. And when I try to download a bunch of engines from links given the links no longer work. The favor that I am asking is for someone to volunteer to run these gauntlets. The goal is to see just how much elo Romi gains from the 800 training games.

Any takers?

Thanks in advance.

[Ozymandias]

Here is a dozen engine links that work:

asmFishW_2017-11-19
Komodo 9
Fire 6.1
Fizbo 1.9
Andscacs 0.921
Roc 0.9 (Gull based)
Houdini 1.5a
Booot 6.2
Texel 1.07a35
Hannibal 1.7
Nirvanachess 2.4
Elektro 1.2

They're way stronger, so you'll have to give them much less time to bring them down to RomiChess' level. Also, you'll finish much earlier.

PS: Mark Lefler doesn't refer to himself in the 3rd person, if you catch my drift.

[elcabesa]

I don't understand what engine you want to try against romichess., the engine posted there are stonger than romichess, but you let it play it against stockfish.

do you need strockfish like engines, or weaker?

[Ozymandias]

do you need strockfish like engines, or weaker?

he wants them at Romi's level, approximatively.

[Guenther]

RomiChess has just completed playing 400 games against itself and 400 games against Stockfish 8, 4 threads. Learning was enabled and started from a new learn file. Now I want to run Romi through a large 2 round gauntlet of engines of similar strength from the starting position. Once with learning turned off and once using the learn file from the above training. The problem is I do not have enough engines for the gauntlet. And when I try to download a bunch of engines from links given the links no longer work. The favor that I am asking is for someone to volunteer to run these gauntlets. The goal is to see just how much elo Romi gains from the 800 training games.

Any takers?

Thanks in advance. :D

What do you mean with download links don't work?
Can you tell me links that don't work from the XB/UCI chronolgy?
Is it possible you don't know the chronology (after it was revived in 2016)?

Guenther

[Guenther]

do you need strockfish like engines, or weaker?

he wants them at Romi's level, approximatively.

Why then only links for the best around?

[elcabesa]

what's the timings you are planning for your gauntlet tournament?

[Ozymandias]

Because he says he tried the ones he wanted and didn't work. The ones at the top work and can be made to accommodate his goal.

[Michael Sherwin]

what's the timings you are planning for your gauntlet tournament?

I'll leave the timings up to the testor(s). The learning data from the training was at 10 sec plus 1 second. The only question that needs to be answered is if this data helps guide Romi to play lines that result in a better performance or not and by how much.

For simplicity and to save time all training was done from the starting position. I used SF 8 for two reasons it is very good at fast time controls and using 4 threads it plays a variety of moves (like 1.e4, d4, Nf3) resulting in a wider coverage of the opening space. A large number of engines are needed in the gauntlet because some engines play 1.c4 or play 1. ... Nf6 to 1.e4 which are not represented in the training. Please let this be enough information as I do not want to get bogged down in a discussion as I have very little spare energy these days to do the work I want to do.

[AndrewGrant]

Ethereal 7.78

CCRL has it just shy of 2600. About the lowest release of Ethereal with executables to go with it.

If you want something weaker, I'll dig deeper and see what I can come up with.