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Thought you were running Crafty or Cray Blitz there.

Here is the trick: before running I just create a blank file with the log name (zappa.log for example), then modify permissions to make it read only, since the file name exists, the engine can't write to the file, but that permission shouldn't affect engine playing. Unless of course the engine cras...

Indeed, looking at the pgn afterwards is fine also.

Yes agreed.

It is CuteChess cli that you use ? I use CuteChess GUI myself, I like to look at the odd game here and there.

Nice hardware there. I stick to 5-men syzygy tablebases but some blitz testers use 6-men. Memory usage with 6-men can climb alarmingly at longer time controls as the O/S caches them. Unlikely to be an issue on the 5950X with 48GB RAM but could definitely be a problem on the other machine. 5-men defi...

Andrew is not CCRL. How many times do we have to tell you that there is no registration process and not a single engine is registered with CCRL?? None, zilch.

There is no further point in continuing this discussion. For the first time in CCRL history, this thread will be locked.

I'll take a look. Problem is, you can't see any of the games can you? I only watch maybe one in a hundred, not sure, but I find it very important to see some of the games to make sure the engine is working as expected. Cutechess GUI is very low overhead. I routinely use concurrency 12 on my Ryzen wi...

WampServer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:27 pm

Ray wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:02 am There is no registration process.

I think I have to wait forever! or never?

Given that in CCRL's 18+ year history no engine has ever been registered with CCRL, I'll leave you to draw your own conclusion.

From my opinion, Lifish is better than ShashChess and should be registered for CCRL. It doesn't matter if you don't want to register my engine for personal reasons but know that there will not be a fair competition. There is no registration process. There are no engines "registered" with ...

CCRL has a policy of letting authors register engines for fair competition upon request. I would like to make such a request on my behalf. I am NOT accusing CCRL of anything and in fact wish it well. However, while it is frustrating, there is no way to tell why my engine is not registered. I should...

I use 512MB for the Chess324 list at 2+1. Being a new list I could choose what I wanted.

In CCRL all engines in a tournament or gauntlet compete under the same conditions, so a common hash size.

Some engines do use a little bit more than what is set.

I'm not a fan of Banksia, it seems to be buggy. Basti is an expert on it.

If you get CuteChess cli working that is great - but do look at some of the games in the pgn to make sure that all seems well.

In terms of GUIs, if you want to use concurrency, then I think you just have three choices - CuteChess cli or GUI, or Banksia.

I'm not the best person to advise for books. I hardly ever run standard chess matches. You can use whatever GUI you want. It is personal preference. Use what you are comfortable with. Graham is the only one who uses ChessGUI. I used to but haven't for many years now. Arena is widely used, as is Ches...

Yes "Rybka" is 1 thread only. But Deep Rybka does not have a UCI parameter for threads either. The parameter is "Max CPUs". Old engine as you say. But with cutechess cli you must surely be able to specify options for individual engines as well as options common for all. If you us...

Is there a separate config file for each engine ? For example Rybka does not have a "threads" UCI parameter, it uses "Max CPUs". So passing a common parameter of "threads" to Rybka won't do anything. It will run one thread.

Regarding the graphical interface and the command version, the benefits are a lower consumption of resources compared to cutechess. True enough but CuteChessGUI is the lightest of all the GUIs and it isn't really a factor - and you can see the games if you want to. I've run up to concurrency of 20 ...

Hi,

To my knowledge none of us use cutechess-cli so I don't think we can be too much help with that. Some of us do use CuteChess GUI though.

Graham Banks wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:12 pm We use 256mb hash per core, so ideally that is what we should be able to set an engine to use.

512MB is an option for 40/15 as well.

Gabor Szots wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:20 am
Thanks for the hint Ray. It would have never occurred to me.

Gabor Szots wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:02 am
As I am not a programmer I can't resolve this issue.

Well you can use his exe in that case.

I'd ignore 32-bit compiles. Those few users who run it need to upgrade.

OOZTURK wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 4:39 pm Hello Graham,

You can find the version compiled for .NET7 framework below.

https://github.com/OrhanOzturk77/Ynode/ ... E_0130.zip

Thank you.

That opens and responds to the UCI command on my .NET7 machine here. The previous version didn't, as Graham found.

It is working fine here now under CuteChess GUI.