Weiss 0.9 64-bit Gauntlet for CCRL 40/15

[Graham Banks]

PGN - http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... p?id=46113

[Graham Banks]

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CCRL 40/15 Rating List - Custom engine selection
1132680 games played by 2634 programs, run by 23 testers
Ponder off, General books (up to 12 moves), 3-4-5 piece EGTB
Time control: Equivalent to 40 moves in 15 minutes on an Intel i7-4770k.
Computed on March 28, 2020 with Bayeselo based on 1'132'680 games
Tested by CCRL team, 2005-2020, http://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/4040/

Rank                 Engine                   Elo   +    -   Score  AvOp  Games
1 Weiss 0.9 64-bit                        2632  +28  -29  50.1%   -3.1   418
  Weiss 0.8 64-bit                        2620  +30  -30  50.1%   -3.7   392

[Terje]

Thank you very much for your efforts! My focus for 0.9 was cleaning up the code, which gave some speedups and a couple of bug fixes, but not much of a strength increase. The next release will hopefully be quite a bit stronger as I've finally gotten to tuning the evaluation parameters

[Gabor Szots]

Hi Terje,

I could not find a contact to you that's why I write here.

I have lots of time forfeits with 0.9. Weiss loses on time in approximately every 8 games. There was nothing wrong with 0.8. I read you'd modified time management but something must have gone wrong. I don't know if Graham encountered the same problem.
This is 2 minutes + 1 second increment time control. Unfortunately no logs.

Regards,
Gabor

[Terje]

Hi Terje,

I could not find a contact to you that's why I write here.

I have lots of time forfeits with 0.9. Weiss loses on time in approximately every 8 games. There was nothing wrong with 0.8. I read you'd modified time management but something must have gone wrong. I don't know if Graham encountered the same problem.
This is 2 minutes + 1 second increment time control. Unfortunately no logs.

Regards,
Gabor

That's odd. I get some time losses playing with extremely low TCs (5s+0.05s or such), but have not seen one on such a long time control game I think. I will be revisiting time management to see if I can improve it.

Do you have the games in which it happened?

Either way, thanks for the report.

[Gabor Szots]

Do you have the games in which it happened?

Yes. I can send it to you if you tell me where. My e-mail: szots.gabor324@t-online.hu.

[Terje]

Do you have the games in which it happened?

Yes. I can send it to you if you tell me where. My e-mail: szots.gabor324@t-online.hu.

Sent you an email

[Terje]

Do you have the games in which it happened?

Yes. I can send it to you if you tell me where. My e-mail: szots.gabor324@t-online.hu.

I assume the problem is related to TBs as without TBs Weiss plays much faster time controls without timing out. I've doubled the frequency with which Weiss checks the time situation. Hopefully this is enough solve the problem.

[Gabor Szots]

Do you have the games in which it happened?

Yes. I can send it to you if you tell me where. My e-mail: szots.gabor324@t-online.hu.

I assume the problem is related to TBs as without TBs Weiss plays much faster time controls without timing out. I've doubled the frequency with which Weiss checks the time situation. Hopefully this is enough solve the problem.

Thank you, Terje. I assume the fix will be present only in the next version. BTW, I keep TB's on an SSD.

[Terje]

Do you have the games in which it happened?

Yes. I can send it to you if you tell me where. My e-mail: szots.gabor324@t-online.hu.

I assume the problem is related to TBs as without TBs Weiss plays much faster time controls without timing out. I've doubled the frequency with which Weiss checks the time situation. Hopefully this is enough solve the problem.

Thank you, Terje. I assume the fix will be present only in the next version. BTW, I keep TB's on an SSD.

Yes, it's available in current dev version and will be in the next release, along with a lot of elo

What size TBs did you use, 5- or 6-men?