Smirf Chess

[Alexander Schmidt]

Very nice, i like it. More colorful than mine.

It's made some time ago, I prefere yours

Alex

[Tony Thomas]

May be it is a good idea to wait for some testing results, as the multivariant engine of SMIRF might not match your top level expectances.

You must have never seen my rating list. I test as many weak engines as Oliver Deville and Leo Djiksman..

[Tony Thomas]

Having no idea of the strength of Smirf using the Smirfoglot adapter, i ran a test game against the latest test version of Sage, unknown elo, but estimated 2450 ...

David I had posted a small test of Sage 3.27d. It only performed 30 points better than its predecessor in 1m+1sec, but from seeing its previous performances at WBEC tournaments, I have to say that Alfil, Horizon and Sage would be Romichess's top 3 competition.


http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19387

[David Dahlem]

Having no idea of the strength of Smirf using the Smirfoglot adapter, i ran a test game against the latest test version of Sage, unknown elo, but estimated 2450 ...

David I had posted a small test of Sage 3.27d. It only performed 30 points better than its predecessor in 1m+1sec, but from seeing its previous performances at WBEC tournaments, I have to say that Alfil, Horizon and Sage would be Romichess's top 3 competition.


http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19387

Hi Tony

Yes, there is not a lot of strength improvement over the predecessor. But it now has EGTB implementation and a config file. I released 3.27d in a hurry, thinking i would be moving to a new house soon. I still may be moving soon.

Meanwhile, i am testing a version of Sage that does seem to show quite a bit of strength improvement, at least in the early stages of testing.

Regards
Dave

[Tony Thomas]

Having no idea of the strength of Smirf using the Smirfoglot adapter, i ran a test game against the latest test version of Sage, unknown elo, but estimated 2450 ...

David I had posted a small test of Sage 3.27d. It only performed 30 points better than its predecessor in 1m+1sec, but from seeing its previous performances at WBEC tournaments, I have to say that Alfil, Horizon and Sage would be Romichess's top 3 competition.


http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19387

Hi Tony

Yes, there is not a lot of strength improvement over the predecessor. But it now has EGTB implementation and a config file. I released 3.27d in a hurry, thinking i would be moving to a new house soon. I still may be moving soon.

Meanwhile, i am testing a version of Sage that does seem to show quite a bit of strength improvement, at least in the early stages of testing.

Regards
Dave

Good luck in Leo's 4th division, Romi still doesnt use EGTB's, and it still attacks a lot. Attacking seems to help in fast time controls, but it defintely seem to be counter productive in long time controls when opponents have time to think.

[David Dahlem]

Good luck in Leo's 4th division, Romi still doesnt use EGTB's, and it still attacks a lot. Attacking seems to help in fast time controls, but it defintely seem to be counter productive in long time controls when opponents have time to think.

Thanks for the good wishes. It will be tough, Sage doesn't ponder and Leo's 4th division is a "ponder on" tourney.



Regards
Dave

[hgm]

OK, the version of Smirfoglot that is on my website now also works with the Smirf bonus version. It automatically extracts the engine key from the SmirfGUI.ini file.

I added printing the PV as well, but somehow WinBoard_F seems to ignore it. Haven't figured out why; from the debug I can see it is printed...

[F.Huber]

I added printing the PV as well, but somehow WinBoard_F seems to ignore it. Haven't figured out why; from the debug I can see it is printed...

In Arena I can see that these PVs are sent too late, the GUI gets them only after the engine´s move.
Try something like ´fflush(...)´ immediately after sending each PV ...

[hgm]

Of course! that must be it!

I'll fix it immediately!

[edit] OK, done. You can upload the corrected version.

[F.Huber]

Yes, now it is working!