Arena Warning

[Rebel]

As pointed out elsewhere I noticed the buggy behaviour of Arena randomly changing the configured hash table size.

After I stopped the tournament and looked at the uci settings of the 2 engines that were playing (Rubichess and Ethereal) I could not believe my eyes. Total garbage.

[Sylwy]

As pointed out elsewhere I noticed the buggy behaviour of Arena randomly changing the configured hash table size.

After I stopped the tournament and looked at the uci settings of the 2 engines that were playing (Rubichess and Ethereal) I could not believe my eyes. Total garbage.

I always adjusted the hash in the Engine Management window (always for UCI engines & sometimes for WB engines-here I prefer the initialization files). And it works absolutely perfectly. For decades.

[Rebel]

Did some further tests. It seems that playing pure eng-eng matches Arena 3.0 performs as expected, it keeps the 4Gb hash and after aborting the tournament the uci configurations of both engines are OK.

However as soon as you add a third engine to a (gauntlet or robin) tournament the trouble starts, Arena changing hash table sizes of engines and showing corrupt uci configurations.

[Rebel]

As pointed out elsewhere I noticed the buggy behaviour of Arena randomly changing the configured hash table size.

After I stopped the tournament and looked at the uci settings of the 2 engines that were playing (Rubichess and Ethereal) I could not believe my eyes. Total garbage.

I always adjusted the hash in the Engine Management window (always for UCI engines & sometimes for WB engines-here I prefer the initialization files). And it works absolutely perfectly. For decades.

Try a tournament with more than 2 engines.

[amanjpro]

I wanted to try Arena for broadcasting ZaTour, in my three hour test it crashed four times... I went on to use cutechess-cli

I've seen Banksia close second too, but I had a few minor inconveniences in the UI, I didn't stick to it for ZaTour

[gerhard]

for my face-tournaments i ve used ...

Arena 3.51 - http://www.playwitharena.de/

... for many many years, without any issues - all i needed worked well
of course i used the common setting

Arena 3.0 is known to have some bugs

best gerhard

[Rebel]

for my face-tournaments i ve used ...

Arena 3.51 - http://www.playwitharena.de/

... for many many years, without any issues - all i needed worked well
of course i used the common setting

Arena 3.0 is known to have some bugs

best gerhard

I checked and indeed the bug is fixed in 3.51

[Sylwy]

for my face-tournaments i ve used ...

Arena 3.51 - http://www.playwitharena.de/

... for many many years, without any issues - all i needed worked well
of course i used the common setting

Arena 3.0 is known to have some bugs

best gerhard

I checked and indeed the bug is fixed in 3.51

Arena 3.0 has gone for many years from my Pcs.