Smooth scaling stockfish

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swami
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Re: Smooth scaling stockfish

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Ovyron wrote:Thanks swami, I've got the same problem than with my decompressed exe :(, I have no idea what the problem could be, if someone knows spanish, this is the message I get after double clicking the exe file:

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"The application couldn't be started because the configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application could solve the problem."
Maybe this can solve the problem:

X64
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

X86
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

I got these links from Luis.
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Ovyron
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Re: Smooth scaling stockfish

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That worked! Thank you very much! :D
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Re: Smooth scaling stockfish

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Dann Corbit wrote:This version of Stockfish:
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... x64_ja.rar

Scales null move smoothly. I get about +150 Elo so far in my testing. How about yours?
Not everyone works with "rar" files. What about .zip or .gz or .tar or something more commonly available???
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Re: Smooth scaling stockfish

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bob wrote:
Dann Corbit wrote:This version of Stockfish:
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... x64_ja.rar

Scales null move smoothly. I get about +150 Elo so far in my testing. How about yours?
Not everyone works with "rar" files. What about .zip or .gz or .tar or something more commonly available???
There should be something to unrar a file in almost every Linux distribution. The problem for me began when I saw there is only a Windows executable inside.

vp
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Re: Smooth scaling stockfish

Post by Dann Corbit »

My apologies that the link I originally posted did not contain all of my improvements because I forgot to tell Jim Ablett about a conditional compilation macro.

My slightly smoother version (but won't be as fast as Jim's):
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... 32.exe.bz2
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... 64.exe.bz2

Jim's version with the correct macro defined:
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... 16s_ja.rar
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Re: Smooth scaling stockfish

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Volker Pittlik wrote:
bob wrote:
Dann Corbit wrote:This version of Stockfish:
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... x64_ja.rar

Scales null move smoothly. I get about +150 Elo so far in my testing. How about yours?
Not everyone works with "rar" files. What about .zip or .gz or .tar or something more commonly available???
There should be something to unrar a file in almost every Linux distribution. The problem for me began when I saw there is only a Windows executable inside.

vp
Here are the changed files (the only significant change is in search.cpp, the other file just has the letter 's' added to the program name).

So it should be easy to do a build.

I seem to recall that the Stockfish team is making some GCC fixes, so you might want to wait a bit for that.

http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/sfc.zip