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[Daniel Mehrmann]

Homer does only run with polyglot (sometimes 1 game only possible)

Hi Werner !

What do you mean ?

A lot of people using Homer with polyglot and reporting no problems so far. (WBEC/RWBC/Dirty Dozen/ChessWar/....)

Please give me some examples.


Best,
Daniel

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Hi,
Homer plays without no problems as a winboard engine,didn't manage to defeat it though,but next time when we meet,it will not be so lucky


iZone_
Hardware:
HP Pavilion dv9000t series,Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo T7200 [2.0GHz/4MB L2Cache],1GB DDR2 System Memory [2 Dimm]
Hashtables=128Mb for each engine!
Software:Windows Vista Home,GUI:Arena 1.1,ChessBase GUI!
Nalimov EGTB:all 4 pieces and most of 5 pieces!
Conditions:
Time controls: 40 minutes per game + 40 seconds increment!
Ponder off!
Learning enabled!
No adapters are used!
No frozen,or out of time games!Just clear cut results!

[Event "iZone_2007_1"]
[Site "Varna"]
[Date "2007.05.30"]
[White "Homer 2.0 i"]
[Black "Dr.Wael Deeb"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B38"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Maroczy Bind, 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Be2 d6 9.O-O Bd7 10.Qd2 Nxd4, 12.f3"]
[TimeControl "2400+40"]
[Termination "unterminated"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.c4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Be2 d6
9.O-O Bd7 10.Qd2 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 Bc6 12.f3 Nd7 13.Nd5 {+0.41/13 106} Bxd4+ 14.Qxd4
{+0.24/14 14} e5 15.Qe3 {+0.23/14 50} Bxd5 16.cxd5 {+0.03/15 49} Qb6 17.Qxb6 {+0.10/16
106} Nxb6 18.Rac1 {+0.01/16 117} Rac8 19.Kf2 {+0.12/16 147} Kg7 20.Ke3 {+0.18/15
131} f6 21.Kd2 {+0.22/14 115} f5 22.g4 {+0.22/14 88} f4 23.h4 {+0.40/14 82} Na4
24.Bb5 {+0.42/15 109} Nb6 25.Rfg1 {+0.40/15 121} a6 26.Bd3 {+0.44/13 37} Nd7 27.b4
{+0.43/15 114} Rfd8 28.a3 {+0.43/14 75} Nb6 29.Rgh1 {+0.40/16 89} Rdf8 30.Ke2 {+0.39/15
102} h6 31.h5 {+0.39/16 84} g5 32.Kd2 {+0.34/17 64} Kf6 33.Rhe1 {+0.23/16 69} Ke7
34.Red1 {+0.25/17 73} Kd7 35.Rdh1 {+0.26/17 74} Rxc1 36.Rxc1 {+0.18/18 35} Rc8 37.Rxc8
{+0.18/18 71} Kxc8 38.Bf1 {+0.17/19 70} Kc7 39.Be2 {+0.17/19 68} Nc8 40.a4 {+0.17/17 65}
Na7 41.Bd1 {+0.17/18 63} b5 42.a5 {+0.16/20 58} 1/2-1/2

[Event "iZone_2007_1"]
[Site "Varna"]
[Date "2007.05.30"]
[White "Dr.Wael Deeb"]
[Black "Homer 2.0 i"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C42"]
[Opening "Russian Game"]
[Variation "Classical, Marshall, 8.c4 c6"]
[TimeControl "2400+40"]
[Termination "unterminated"]
[PlyCount "96"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.O-O O-O 8.c4 c6 9.Re1
Re8 10.Nc3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 Rxe1+ 12.Qxe1 h6 13.Ne5 Qf6 14.Bd2 Be6 {-1.20/12 103}
15.Rb1 b6 {-1.14/14 124} 16.Qe2 Bf5 {-0.98/14 119} 17.cxd5 Bxe5 {-0.99/16 135} 18.dxe5
Qg6 {-1.02/15 47} 19.Bxf5 Qxf5 {-1.12/14 22} 20.Rd1 cxd5 {-1.01/15 109} 21.Bc1 Nc6
{-0.84/14 95} 22.Rxd5 Qb1 {-0.66/14 146} 23.Qb2 Qe4 {-0.39/15 222} 24.Qd2 Re8 {-0.19/14
84} 25.f3 Qc4 {+0.02/15 88} 26.f4 f6 {-0.12/15 117} 27.Qd3 Qxd3 {+0.03/16 79}
28.Rxd3 fxe5 {+0.07/16 137} 29.Rd6 Na5 {0.00/15 83} 30.fxe5 Nc4 {+0.20/16 98} 31.Rd5
Nxe5 {+0.46/14 68} 32.h3 Ng4 {+0.42/14 71} 33.hxg4 Re1+ {+0.78/15 58} 34.Kh2 Rxc1
{+0.77/15 63} 35.Rd8+ Kh7 {+0.86/13 7} 36.Rd7 a5 {+1.15/15 96} 37.Rb7 Rxc3 {+2.12/16 36}
38.Rxb6 Rc2 {+1.83/17 117} 39.Ra6 Rxa2 {+1.82/16 67} 40.Kg3 a4 {+2.00/14 60} 41.Kf3 Ra1
{+1.85/14 54} 42.Kf2 Kg8 {+1.91/15 103} 43.Kg3 Ra2 {+1.95/13 56} 44.Kf3 Kf7 {+1.88/14 61}
45.Kg3 a3 {+1.95/14 133} 46.Kf3 Ke7 {+1.97/14 128} 47.Rg6 Kf8 {+2.05/14 53} 48.Ra6 Kf7
{+1.80/14 87} 1/2-1/2

[Werner]

Hi Daniel,
this is the result of my bad english

a) Homer runs fine with polyglot inside ChessGenius
b) Homer has problems with the driver vers. 1.1 from Roland Pfister (here I could not play a series of games) inside ChessGenius GUI
c) Homer did not move inside ChessGenius when I tried to use it as a winboard engine

all ok now?

[Daniel Mehrmann]

Hi Daniel,
this is the result of my bad english

a) Homer runs fine with polyglot inside ChessGenius
b) Homer has problems with the driver vers. 1.1 from Roland Pfister (here I could not play a series of games) inside ChessGenius GUI
c) Homer did not move inside ChessGenius when I tried to use it as a winboard engine

all ok now?

Hi Werner !

Don't worry, my english is crappy as well...

Thanks for your correction. Should i take a look to the problems with Roland's adapter or do you think we could ignore it ?
How many people using this adapter instead of polyglot ?

Best,
Daniel

[Werner]

Hi Daniel,
I don´t think its necessary to have a look at the (old) adapter from Roland Pfister only for ChessGenius as you can use polyglot in the same way fine. Only on the website from Eduard Nemeth are some helpfiles how to use wb or uci inside ChessGenius. He advice to use the 1.1 Adapter from Roland.

On the other way - Homer is a wb engine too - but its not possible here to run it as wb-engine inside ChessGenius (only as uci). With other wb/uci engines I had no problems. The reason is perhaps which command Homer need to switch to wb?
This is also a very small problem cause only 1 or 2 people try to run Homer inside ChessGenius GUI

[Daniel Mehrmann]

Hi Werner !

It would be nice if you can run Homer as WB engine and send me homer.log ? The rest can be done via E-Mail

Best,
Daniel

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Hi Werner !

It would be nice if you can run Homer as WB engine and send me homer.log ? The rest can be done via E-Mail

Best,
Daniel

Leave the personal issues Daniel and take a close look at the games I posted as you won't recieve such games everyday against humans....
[Edited by moderation]

Dr.Wael Deeb

[Daniel Mehrmann]

Hi Werner !

It would be nice if you can run Homer as WB engine and send me homer.log ? The rest can be done via E-Mail

Best,
Daniel

Leave the personal issues Daniel and take a close look at the games I posted as you won't recieve such games everyday against humans....
[Edited by moderation]

Dr.Wael Deeb

eh ?

Why do you think it was for you ?

It's just in general. Nobody wants to see a big log and maybe tech-talk about bugfixing. Thats all.

Best,
Daniel

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Ok Daniel,I just hope the games to have some value for you
I had a wonderful time playing this version of Homer,keep up the good work....
Regards,
Dr.Wael Deeb

[S.Taylor]

I have no idea about the strength of Genius, if it is rated around at least 2500, Rybka wouldnt win every single game against it. Note that in my tournaments Lime was able to score 2.5 points out of 60 games versus Naum and Chess Tiger and Genius should be clearly stronger than Lime.

Are you not interested in seeing the difference between lower level chess and higher level chess, by computer programs?

Is it not nice to be able to watch how higher levels win games, and avoid defeat?

Anyway, the difference between 2500 vs 2900 comp comp, I wonder if it is similar to a 400 difference between humans. But even if it HAS to be because that is the meaning of elo, would it not be more comfortable to your mind to say that it is only a few draws but not any victory against Rybka, (which might suggest that rybka has some flaw? Human are different because humans lose by errors, of the type which computers do not make....but draws are ok, and preferebly they are because of rybka having an upper hand but simply unable to capitalize).