wine-compatible engines

[cyberfish]

Thanks... but my engine is obviously not at that level yet .

[jdart]

Arasan (http://www.arasanchess.org) is native Linux, although it's stronger than most of the other engines you mention.

Yace runs well on Linux too.

--Jon

[cyberfish]

Thanks!

[cyberfish]

For me it doesn't even start. It segfaults as soon as I run it, and gdb says

"/data/Brainless/test/engines/buzz/Buzz_UNIX_x86": not in executable format: File format not recognized

[cyberfish]

Wow, thanks for the suggestions!

[cyberfish]

Thanks, but I think it may be a bit too strong.

[krazyken]

I am using 64-bit Linux, but only 32-bit wine (is there a 64-bit wine?) with 32-bit (versions of) engines.

My wine is from Ubuntu apt repository - wine-1.0.1

I will give Atak another try... maybe it's my time control? (10 seconds per 40 moves)

there is a 64 bit wine, but it is new. Some things may work if you are willing to dig into it.
You are using an older wine than I am, You should try the 1.1.x branch.
Your time control will give many engines trouble as well, I've done 40 moves in 4 seconds before though.

[cyberfish]

Tried some more engines -

(I am avoiding UCI engines for now)

RattateChess is too weak (at my time control, it's almost 300 elo weaker than my engine), but seems to work fine.

Phalanx is great!

OliThink 5 is too strong, and 4 gives me illegal moves.

Beowolf hangs.

Resp doesn't compile with GCC 4 (too many errors to fix).

gnuchess refuses to make moves this fast...

Witz I decided to skip since I already have Pradu's Buzz and Dirty.

Amundsen runs fine, but is a little weak (~120 elo weaker).



My engine is wayyy stronger than it really is at my testing condition for some reason (Bob's opening positions, 10 secs per 40 moves). Eats Crafty for breakfast (probably because Crafty always only uses ~0.5 seconds for some reason).

[cyberfish]

ZCT (native build) works, but I had to comment out some EGBB code for it to build. Don't need EGBB for my testing anyways .

[krazyken]

The fixes for resp are trivial and you can get the fixed source at my site.

Here are the engines I found to work well enough at very fast speeds:

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2008.08.08 - 2008.08.16 
                                         Score      
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 1: Thinker52E                         149.5 / 186 
 2: Rybka 2.2n2 mp                     147.0 / 186 
 3: HIARCS 12.1 MP                     145.5 / 186 
 4: Fruit 2.3.1                        144.0 / 186 
 5: bright-0.3a                        141.5 / 186 
 6: HIARCS 11.2 MP                     141.0 / 186 
 7: Sloppy-0.2.0                       138.5 / 186 
 8: Toga II 3.1.2SE                    135.0 / 186 
 9: Hamsters 0.6                       130.5 / 186 
10: Gambit Fruit 1.0 Beta 4bx          129.5 / 186 
11: phalanx                            116.0 / 186 
12: GreKo 5.9                          115.5 / 186 
13: Diablo 0.5.1                       112.5 / 186 
14: Scorpio 2.0                        107.0 / 186 
15: Pepito v1.59 (Conservador)         104.5 / 186 
16: OliThink 5.1.3                     104.0 / 186 
17: HIARCS 10 UCI                      102.0 / 186 
18: Witz Alpha 21                      91.5 / 186 
19: ZCT0.3.2451 JA                     85.5 / 186 
20: WildCat 8                          76.5 / 186 
21: Gaia 3.5                           74.0 / 186 
22: Xpdnt 080806                       73.5 / 186 
23: Mediocre v0.332                    63.0 / 186 
24: Kiwi 0.6d                          60.5 / 186 
25: Deep Sjeng 1.6                     56.0 / 186 
26: beowulf                            49.0 / 186 
27: resp                               46.5 / 186 
28: Flux 2.2                           37.5 / 186 
29: Roce 0.0380                        31.0 / 186 
30: RattateChess 1.0-rc1 Bologna 2007  30.0 / 186 
31: Crafty-22.1                        19.5 / 186 
32: TSCP                               18.5 / 186 
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2976 games: +1401 =260 -1315