Joost Buijs wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 10:34 pm
This time everything went smoothly. It's a pity that Chris W. had a problem with his engine, we've been waiting 5 minutes for him to return before Eendje started the tournament. Hopefully he will be there next time.
Yes, hopefully. I did log back in with a working version (prior version recompiled) at 20:08 but looks like that was 3 minutes too late. Also discovered the “bug” that caused the server to shut down my engine at startup. It was printing a few characters of initialisation debug info.
The fish 'Belfish' is still a little bit too strong and won the tournament. I'm happy that my engine came in second, Nemorino and Ethereal ended third.
Zahak made a lot of progress and scored 3 points. Skipper became 'Hekkensluiter', as usual he entertained us with a lot of Lyrics, thank you Henk!
chrisw wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 12:54 pm
Yes, hopefully. I did log back in with a working version (prior version recompiled) at 20:08 but looks like that was 3 minutes too late. Also discovered the “bug” that caused the server to shut down my engine at startup. It was printing a few characters of initialisation debug info.
It was not the server that shut the connection down, but I think Winboard/Polyglot does this when it looses contact with the engine. Maybe Polyglot didn't like the extra characters the engine was sending.
chrisw wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 12:54 pm
Yes, hopefully. I did log back in with a working version (prior version recompiled) at 20:08 but looks like that was 3 minutes too late. Also discovered the “bug” that caused the server to shut down my engine at startup. It was printing a few characters of initialisation debug info.
It was not the server that shut the connection down, but I think Winboard/Polyglot does this when it looses contact with the engine. Maybe Polyglot didn't like the extra characters the engine was sending.
There was a brief polyglot alert box that popped up. Maybe that was it.
Joost Buijs wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 10:34 pm
This time everything went smoothly. It's a pity that Chris W. had a problem with his engine, we've been waiting 5 minutes for him to return before Eendje started the tournament. Hopefully he will be there next time.
The fish 'Belfish' is still a little bit too strong and won the tournament. I'm happy that my engine came in second, Nemorino and Ethereal ended third.
Zahak made a lot of progress and scored 3 points. Skipper became 'Hekkensluiter', as usual he entertained us with a lot of Lyrics, thank you Henk!
Pi4Chess wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 11:37 pm
Hello Joost. I see you actually are interested in Corchess mod
You are completely wrong. After you told me which engine you used I looked it up, a Stockfish clone. If there is one thing I'm not interested in, it's Stockfish, I don't even have Stockfish on my PC. The last time I looked at it must have been 6 years back or so.
The same holds for LC0, I have a RTX-3090 card that I use for training ANN's, I never tried to run LC0 on it because I don't care.
The reason we run this tournament each month is to give programmers the opportunity to test their engines, joining is free and everybody is welcome. Of course there is a preference for people joining with original engines and not for people joining with the nth Stockfish clone.
Pi4Chess wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 11:37 pm
Hello Joost. I see you actually are interested in Corchess mod
You are completely wrong. After you told me which engine you used I looked it up, a Stockfish clone. If there is one thing I'm not interested in, it's Stockfish, I don't even have Stockfish on my PC. The last time I looked at it must have been 6 years back or so.
The same holds for LC0, I have a RTX-3090 card that I use for training ANN's, I never tried to run LC0 on it because I don't care.
The reason we run this tournament each month is to give programmers the opportunity to test their engines, joining is free and everybody is welcome. Of course there is a preference for people joining with original engines and not for people joining with the nth Stockfish clone.
I tell that because i saw you participate in Corchess Github but may be it's someone else with same name "Joost"
As for Stockfish it's not interesting to compete against the engine on full big hardware of course but on Pi4 with only 800k to 1 million nodes by second i think it can be interesting.
Pi4Chess wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 11:37 pm
Hello Joost. I see you actually are interested in Corchess mod
You are completely wrong. After you told me which engine you used I looked it up, a Stockfish clone. If there is one thing I'm not interested in, it's Stockfish, I don't even have Stockfish on my PC. The last time I looked at it must have been 6 years back or so.
The same holds for LC0, I have a RTX-3090 card that I use for training ANN's, I never tried to run LC0 on it because I don't care.
The reason we run this tournament each month is to give programmers the opportunity to test their engines, joining is free and everybody is welcome. Of course there is a preference for people joining with original engines and not for people joining with the nth Stockfish clone.
I tell that because i saw you participate in Corchess Github but may be it's someone else with same name "Joost"
As for Stockfish it's not interesting to compete against the engine on full big hardware of course but on Pi4 with only 800k to 1 million nodes by second i think it can be interesting.
It is indeed interesting to see what Stockfish can do on such a tiny piece of hardware like the Pi4.
The only Chess Github I sometimes look at is the Stockfish one. Not that I'm interested in Stockfish but I try to follow a little bit what they are doing with respect to training networks.
