New engine releases & news - discussions + bug reports H1 2022

[Modern Times]

Sorry for the problems! Apparently I made a mistake when doing the compiles. It appears that the new compiles are working.

John

Yes, working just fine here.

[Guenther]

Quoting somehow the missplaced posts from the other thread...

Post by Frank Quisinsky » Tue Jan 04, 2022 2:22 am
Hm ...
I am mate with my new FCP Tourney-KI system is round 1.

:-)

Thanks for your fix!

Best
Frank

Post by Werner » Tue Jan 04, 2022 7:48 am

jhonnold wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:19 am
Berserk 8.5.1

This is a bug-fix release for 8.5 which had issues with cyclical time controls (40 moves in 15 minutes). For non-cyclical TCs, this will represent no changes.

Download: https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk/releases/tag/8.5.1

I have a result behind version 8.0 for CEGT 40/20 using AVX2 pext compile after 1000 games.
Any ideas ?
Werner

Post by Graham Banks » Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:03 am

Werner wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 04, 2022 7:48 am

jhonnold wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:19 am
Berserk 8.5.1

This is a bug-fix release for 8.5 which had issues with cyclical time controls (40 moves in 15 minutes). For non-cyclical TCs, this will represent no changes.

Download: https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk/releases/tag/8.5.1

I have a result behind version 8.0 for CEGT 40/20 using AVX2 pext compile after 1000 games.
Any ideas ?

Wow, Werner. That was quick!

Post by Werner » Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:30 am

Graham Banks wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:03 am

Werner wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 04, 2022 7:48 am

jhonnold wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:19 am
Berserk 8.5.1

This is a bug-fix release for 8.5 which had issues with cyclical time controls (40 moves in 15 minutes). For non-cyclical TCs, this will represent no changes.

Download: https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk/releases/tag/8.5.1

I have a result behind version 8.0 for CEGT 40/20 using AVX2 pext compile after 1000 games.
Any ideas ?

Wow, Werner. That was quick!

... for version 8.5 :(

Post by Graham Banks » Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:32 am

Werner wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:30 am

Graham Banks wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:03 am

Werner wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 04, 2022 7:48 am

jhonnold wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:19 am
Berserk 8.5.1

This is a bug-fix release for 8.5 which had issues with cyclical time controls (40 moves in 15 minutes). For non-cyclical TCs, this will represent no changes.

Download: https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk/releases/tag/8.5.1

I have a result behind version 8.0 for CEGT 40/20 using AVX2 pext compile after 1000 games.
Any ideas ?

Wow, Werner. That was quick!

... for version 8.5 :(

Yes - I figured that. I was just being mischievous.
Happy New Year to you and your family. :)

[Werner]

Drofa 3.2.30 dev (ready for compiling)
https://github.com/justNo4b/Drofa
https://rwbc-chess.de

Hi,
do you plan to compile this version ?

[Graham Banks]

Combusken 2.0.0 won't load into ChessGUI.

[Graham Banks]

Combusken 2.0.0 won't load into ChessGUI.

It will install once the 'cannot analyse' box is ticked.

[Gabor Szots]

Combusken 2.0.0 won't load into ChessGUI.

Nor does it load in the Shredder GUI. The GUI says it is not an UCI engine. That is typical when loading takes too long. I noticed when run from the comand line that before displaying its name it fills the screen with empty spaces so that must be the problem.

[Gabor Szots]

I'm not sure that this thread will serve its intended purpose. Why should an engine author read this regularly to find if there is something wrong with his engine?
Also, the thread will disappear from the front page every now and then. If you want to post some report you will have to go and search for it.

In my view bug reports should go under the name of the engine they deal with, that is, a different thread for each engine.

[Gabor Szots]

Combusken 2.0.0 won't load into ChessGUI.

Nor does it load in the Shredder GUI. The GUI says it is not an UCI engine. That is typical when loading takes too long. I noticed when run from the comand line that before displaying its name it fills the screen with empty spaces so that must be the problem.

Problem solved, Marcin has uploaded new executables.

[Guenther]

I'm not sure that this thread will serve its intended purpose. Why should an engine author read this regularly to find if there is something wrong with his engine?
Also, the thread will disappear from the front page every now and then. If you want to post some report you will have to go and search for it.

In my view bug reports should go under the name of the engine they deal with, that is, a different thread for each engine.

Just a few words,

The main reason for this separate thread was to unburden the release thread from everything else, as it got out of hand last year.
This was the 'intended' purpose and 'bug reports' just appears at second place and should be considered a generalization
for everything, which is not 'discussions' about the releases.
And not everything which appears to be a bug for some users, really is a bug too. If it is pre-'discussed' here, other users
can help and clear this up (or not) for them.

We could of course omit the '+ bug reports' part, if mods allow this, but (real) bug reports should be reported always
in detail via mail/PM/github issue/whatever to the according authors in the first place.
Still a majority of authors of chess engines don't even read talkchess at all.
Moreover knowing about bugs is not only interesting for the authors of course.
No one is 'forced' to place a bug report in this thread that should be clear.

A good thing though would be that this thread and the release thread could be fixed at the top, but that is only in the
hands of the moderators and I don't know if they like that, nor if they care at all anymore about this general forum.
At least having both threads on top would diminish the chance people would pick up the 'wrong' thread again and again
in the future.

[No4b]

Drofa 3.3.0 released

About +100 elo in self-play. No NNUE & nets, pure simple Hand-crafted evaluation

https://github.com/justNo4b/Drofa/releases/tag/3.3.0

Additional information can be found here
forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=75744&p=919289#p919289