Guenther wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 12:46 pm
Gabor Szots wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 12:21 pm
Guenther wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 11:47 am
Gabor Szots wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 9:41 am
Guenther wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 12:02 pm
Homura (New) 230517 by Ellie Moore (USA).
https://github.com/RedBedHed/Homura
https://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=82049
A few days ago I made two binaries available for the new engine Homura.
I got some feed back from Carlos that none of them worked on his machine
and gave some strange error message.
After some retesting I found the reason. It needs a certain txt file from the src directory,
which I have now included in the download from rwbc. (ospec.txt)
Ofc I also filed an issue at github.
Guenther
As with most chess engines written by a student, I fear this is also going to be a one-time endeavour and will soon be abandoned. CMCchess and Mora come to mind, perhaps Loki, surely there are many more. I prefer testing engines whose authors intend to develop their engines on a larger scale.
I hope future will prove me wrong.
I guess you did not read the thread about it by its programmer?
(link was given above...)
It's an engine with an unique search, it doesn't matter if it will be developed much further,
actually I guess she will start with a new program sooner or later.
As Homura was an undergrad project, I plan to leave the repository as-is and continue to work on Homura under a different name. (I might still clean a little since parts of it are messy)
BTW please don't mention Cmc in comparison here. in its last version it was simply using Fruit eval plus most likely Sungorus search, while being closed source... (and Mora is one of some dozens of Vice derivates, nothing to complain
I am not into knowledge as much as you Günther, I did not know there was an issue with Cmc and Mora (other than writing a cat's namen in capital letters). If I had known in time I don't think I would have tested them.
Regarding the home page, I did read what she wrote: "I plan...". Also "I ran out of time to implement the full UCI interface". Young people have many plans and they run out of time often.
I remain optimistic though.
Just for clarification I wanted to remove the part about Mora, but it seems I sent too early.
(I wanted to say 'nothing to complain about it being a derivative of Vice, there are much more closer derivates and also
copies or simple translations of Vice, but it should not be compared to sth like Homura' - then I decided to remove this
last part anyway, because it won't go anywhere and it is not too important, but it seems I forgot to remove it completely)
Hi everyone, Mora's author here. It's been years since I logged into the forum.
For me, Mora was indeed a one-time endeavor. I would have loved to continue the project, but unfortunately, you don't always find the time for everything in life as you gain more and more responsibilities. The reason I'm here is that I received an email from someone letting me know that another person on the forum claimed that Mora was some kind of copy, and I felt the need to reply.
I don't take offense or anything, but to say Mora is a derivative of Vice is like saying I just grab Vice's source code and modified it. This is not true. I did watch the YouTube series by Bluefever Software when I was starting, and those videos were incredibly helpful to me. It is even acknowledged in the repository. However, I did not use Vice's source code for my project. I did a lot of reading and started the project with a blank file open on an IDE.
I am sure there would be a lot of similar features, as I think most enthusiasts would read the same papers and research. I am talking about search and evaluation techniques. And the fact that engines need to be efficient kind of takes some liberty from you on how to organize the code too. I'm not even particularly proud of my code as it can probably be improved a lot, both in terms of cleaning the code and implementing things differently.
Anyway, sorry if this was too long. Just wanted to clarify that. I really hope someday I can go back to coding something chess-related. Cat-Mora is still a loyal companion
