Retro Chess - site update

[Wilhelm]

updates for 1000 games test, ratinglist, test suite, Grandmaster, CM only.
Also finished a long time project with my last two settings based on statistics, Prometheus and TYR.
Have fun

[Wilhelm]

Update for Ding Liren personality. Setting was wrong.
Sorry, please redownload.

http://descent.at/files/cm11.html

[kasinp]

Hi Wilhelm,

I have CM Grandmaster Edition. Is there a way to have TheKing350_64.exe use more than 3 threads?

I notice your tests include T8 case, which I assume to be 8 threads.
For me, regardless of how many I specify in user.ini file (threads_count=8 for instance), the engine always uses only 3 threads.
Tried it on different PCs and was unable to overcome this limitation.

Please let me know, thank you!

Regards,
Peter

[Wilhelm]

Hi Peter,
under the Chessmaster-GUI there is no way to use more than three threads directly I think.
But you can use the way to import a setting with inbetween and there you can use the /t8 command to use 8 cores.
Read here
http://descent.at/files/cm11.html
scroll down to
Personalities for import via InBetween.ini as winboard engines

If you need more help ask me

regards Wilhelm

[kasinp]

Hi Peter,
under the Chessmaster-GUI there is no way to use more than three threads directly I think.
But you can use the way to import a setting with inbetween and there you can use the /t8 command to use 8 cores.
Read here
http://descent.at/files/cm11.html
scroll down to
Personalities for import via InBetween.ini as winboard engines

If you need more help ask me

regards Wilhelm

Thanks Wilhelm!

Unfortunately, on trying to use the OPK patch on TheKing350_64.exe I get a message "The King, unknown version."
The readme file only lists versions between 3.12a and 3.33.

Any suggestions would be welcome!

Cheers,
Peter

[Wilhelm]

The x64 version doesn't work correct when patched. I only use the original and generate the opk number with the VB-script.
There is no other way. On my download page you find a link to Grahams tools. He also made a program to generate the opk number.

regards Wilhelm

[kasinp]

The x64 version doesn't work correct when patched. I only use the original and generate the opk number with the VB-script.
There is no other way. On my download page you find a link to Grahams tools. He also made a program to generate the opk number.

regards Wilhelm

Thank you again Wilhelm, I appreciate your responses.

I was able to follow Graham's instructions and for me the x64 version works fine! It seems -t8 is the max. number of threads supported, but that's a nice bump from the original 3 under CM GUI.

Big thanks to Graham for the excellent instructions on how to make this work in Arena.

Cheers,
Peter

[Wilhelm]

Super, cool that it works ...and yes, 8 cores is the maximum.

cheers
William

[AdminX]

CM Beth Harmon kingside demolition.


White to play

[pgn]
[Event "CM Beth Harmon-CM Firouzja match (4 games, 15 minutes per game)"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2022.04.11"]
[Round "3"]
[White "CM Beth Harmon"]
[Black "CM Firouzja"]
[Result "1-0"]
[EventDate "2022.04.11"]
[ECO "C18"]
[PlyCount "57"]

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[mephisto]

Hi Ted

What are those graphics called in your diagram. I have not seen them before.

Regards
Bryan