Somehow, Rodent returned (Rodent V)

[PK]

Available at https://github.com/nescitus/Rodent-V/re ... dent_v_1_0

Co-developed with Naman Tanki, probably 3400 CCRL, which makes it the strongest engine written in Go. Has personalities, because it would not be Rodent otherwise, but I still need to supply more of them. Has both NNUE support (512 hidden neurons with horizontal mirroring) and pretty decent handcrafted evaluation, personalities can use them side by side. More details at release page, more documentation incoming.

[Gabor Szots]

Available at https://github.com/nescitus/Rodent-V/re ... dent_v_1_0

Co-developed with Naman Tanki, probably 3400 CCRL, which makes it the strongest engine written in Go. Has personalities, because it would not be Rodent otherwise, but I still need to supply more of them. Has both NNUE support (512 hidden neurons with horizontal mirroring) and pretty decent handcrafted evaluation, personalities can use them side by side. More details at release page, more documentation incoming.

Excellent news, thank you Pawel and Naman.

[cpeters]

Hello and thank you Pawel/Naman.

Rodent V (the Tal-variant) is now playing games on Lichess (running as a bot on NetBSD). Brilliant!
Thanks again+have a nice week!

greetings

N.B.

Any recommendations on the provided books? A broad repertoire is preferred...

[PK]

Rodent V (the Tal-variant) is now playing games on Lichess (running as a bot on NetBSD). Brilliant!

Under what handle?

As for books, you can replace Tal book with active.bin, provided on Rodent's GitHub.

[Werner]

Rodent does not run correct inside Cutechess GUI.
Maybe the bug is in rodent.txt
setoption name nnuePath value nets/rodent_v_512hl_6.bin
There is no such file in the nets folder.

[PK]

Rodent does not run correct inside Cutechess GUI.
Maybe the bug is in rodent.txt
setoption name nnuePath value nets/rodent_v_512hl_6.bin
There is no such file in the nets folder.

try deleting rodent.txt, this network is pre-loaded

[cpeters]

Under what handle?

https://lichess.org/@/Rodent-V
younger brother is:
https://lichess.org/@/Rodent-IV

[Werner]

I renamed the the net and copied into the net folder:
rodent_hm_512hl_1.bin
rodent_v_512hl_6.bin
maybe it has the same effect; the results are better now

[PK]

@Werner, please download release package once again. The missing net has been added. Renaming is a bad idea, as the nets are not identical and have different architecture - one uses horizontal mirrorring, the other does not. The engine will play, but weaker, and I don't know by how much.

[tapio]

Best news, but as you are aware, a good system of weakening is crucial for this engine.