Chesley

swami · Post by **swami** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:02 am

Extracting the files of this engine is taking too long.

It comes along with so many sources in JA's download.

I hope that in future there's only exe's in the extractor and offered up as separate download. This engine is continually being updated, so...

Thanks.

Graham Banks · Post by **Graham Banks** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:47 am

I couldn't get it to work anyway.

swami · Post by **swami** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:31 am

It does work in Arena. IIRC, It was a decent 2000-2100 level engine.

However, it doesn't support setboard function to be able to run it in test suites. Hash size doesn't seem to be configurable. I'll contact the author.

Regards,
Swami

gingell · Post by **gingell** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:43 pm

HI,

Thanks for taking a look.

Chesley does support the "setboard <fen>" command. It doesn't support the old "edit" style mechanism, but that's fixable if it's important to users. I've also implemented an "epd" command for my own testing which runs an individual test.

Right now the hash table size is fixed at compile time. That's also easily fixable.

The source distribution is big because it includes those Boost libraries it depends on. This adds a huge amount of junk. I have factored out most of the use of Boost in Chesley and hope to get rid of it completely in the near future. That should shrink the source package enormously.

If anything just plain doesn't work and grateful for any bug reports.

Thanks again for your comments. "Decent" is what I've been working towards for a while!

Matt

swami · Post by **swami** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:42 pm

Dear Matt,

Thanks for your comment. Looking forward to the new versions with fixed editboard function/configurable hash size since Arena "Automatic analysis" mode requires the support for old style mechanism of edit.

Regards,
Swami

Guenther · Post by **Guenther** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:45 pm

swami wrote:Extracting the files of this engine is taking too long.

It comes along with so many sources in JA's download.

I hope that in future there's only exe's in the extractor and offered up as separate download. This engine is continually being updated, so...

Thanks.

You don't need to extract all files at least in all zip programs I know.
Just use the open dialogue and extract only the files you really need
instead of automatically extracting all files.

Guenther

swami · Post by **swami** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:49 pm

Guenther wrote:
swami wrote:Extracting the files of this engine is taking too long.

It comes along with so many sources in JA's download.

I hope that in future there's only exe's in the extractor and offered up as separate download. This engine is continually being updated, so...

Thanks.
You don't need to extract all files at least in all zip programs I know.
Just use the open dialogue and extract only the files you really need
instead of automatically extracting all files.

Guenther

Ah, How could I have forgotten about that.

Graham Banks · Post by **Graham Banks** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:02 pm

gingell wrote: If anything just plain doesn't work and grateful for any bug reports.

I'll see if I can find a debug file for you. Will let you know.

Cheers,
Graham.

Jim Ablett · Post by **Jim Ablett** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:36 pm

There was a problem with latest x64 JA compile - fixed now.
Download from usual place.
32 bit works for me no problem in Arena/Winboard but default hash is huge 550mb.
I will reduce this to a more conservative size on next revision.

Jim.

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