The time control is buggy ... x moves in x minutes

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi Rasmus,

your engine is one of my favourites for self-playing on my DGT board. For the last few years I have been using it most of the time (an older version from CT800 and an older Wasp version with 2200 for self play). I can't give you an explanation why I do this, but during games against CT-800 I had the feeling that a human was playing chess against me. Absolutely clear why your engine is so popular in the chess computer community. Of course I am not the only one with that opinion.

Not important how strong CT800 is. Much more the style of chess.

Back to ...
What I like to do with Shredder GUI is ...

In the network directory I put the *.sto configuration file from Shredder.
Example: q:

Different PCs can load the next game from the configuration file and return the result, load the next game and return the result. *.pgn and *.html tournament table and *.sto configuration file are saved on the network directory. The PCs are loading only the next pairing from network directory and give return the results.

Example: I can use if I want 24 PCs in a network room (not during the day, at night or on weekends). Modern 11th generation i5 systems.
Overnight I have a final result from an opening line for the test set I am working on ... so 24x8 games are still running at the same time. 192 games x 3.5 Ghz max. possible. I can do this very easily with the Shredder GUI. In the morning I look at the final result from my PC at home. But I do not do that very often, it needs too much power and you know ... very expensive. Also, to start Shredder GUI 192x over the network ... no idea how I can make it faster with a few clicks. Often it works not perfectly, perhaps to many running matches for the *.sto file in the network directory. So, most of time I do that with max. 64 still-running matches or 32 still running matches.

I am looking in the games / results later with Hiarcs Chess Explorer.
Not what you describe, but it might be interesting.

Best
Frank