Ehsan Rashid and the DON engine (SF based)

[Graham Banks]

He has asked me to post a link to his latest effort plus the source code:

https://github.com/ehsanrashid/DON/tree/main



He is hoping that some will try it out and post the results here.

[erashid]

here is the link to exe. "DON 4.5 x64 BMI2"

[lucametehau]

What's the differences between this and SF? As far as I've looked there aren't any. Also pretty funny how in the README, DON replaced Stockfish.

[Modern Times]

He is hoping that some will try it out and post the results here.

Has he not "tried it out" himself already ?

[erashid]

He is hoping that some will try it out and post the results here.

Has he not "tried it out" himself already ?

Yes I have tested .. and get good results

[Graham Banks]

What's the differences between this and SF? As far as I've looked there aren't any. Also pretty funny how in the README, DON replaced Stockfish.

No idea. I just passed on Ehsan's message.

[AndrewGrant]

Unsurprisingly, I would not recommend wasting your time with it. Mildly tweaked Stockfish's are a dime a dozen. Plenty of more interesting things going on that are worth looking into. Some day someone will come around with a very profound Stockfish fork perhaps, but I don't think that day has come yet.

[Graham Banks]

Unsurprisingly, I would not recommend wasting your time with it. Mildly tweaked Stockfish's are a dime a dozen. Plenty of more interesting things going on that are worth looking into. Some day someone will come around with a very profound Stockfish fork perhaps, but I don't think that day has come yet.

I've told Ehsan that it won't be tested for CCRL.

[Modern Times]

Unsurprisingly, I would not recommend wasting your time with it. Mildly tweaked Stockfish's are a dime a dozen. Plenty of more interesting things going on that are worth looking into. Some day someone will come around with a very profound Stockfish fork perhaps, but I don't think that day has come yet.

I've told Ehsan that it won't be tested for CCRL.

You personally won't test it but another CCRL tester could do because they are all free to do what they want, although I imagine they all have their hands full without considering yet another derivative.

[Graham Banks]

Unsurprisingly, I would not recommend wasting your time with it. Mildly tweaked Stockfish's are a dime a dozen. Plenty of more interesting things going on that are worth looking into. Some day someone will come around with a very profound Stockfish fork perhaps, but I don't think that day has come yet.

I've told Ehsan that it won't be tested for CCRL.

You personally won't test it but another CCRL tester could do because they are all free to do what they want, although I imagine they all have their hands full without considering yet another derivative.

Let's just say that I know their views regarding such engines.