ChessGUI development suspended.

[Matthias Gemuh]

ChessGUI development suspended.

I have just uploaded ChessGUI 0.192 !

I will now suspend the development of ChessGUI for quite some time.
I hope anyone who dares to use it, will not encounter any problems.
My tests found ChessGUI 0.192 to be optimized and bug-free.

I may now return to chess engine programming.

However, from time to time I will highlight some weird feature of ChessGUI.

Cheers,
Matthias.

[Graham Banks]

Thanks for your tireless efforts to date on ChessGUI.
Perhaps now we can look forward to the possibility of a new BigLion at some stage?

[Matthias Gemuh]

Thanks for your tireless efforts to date on ChessGUI.
Perhaps now we can look forward to the possibility of a new BigLion at some stage?

Hi Graham,

I will at least look at BigLion .

Matthias.

[Matthias Gemuh]

I have just re-uploaded the ChessGUI package with the following book-related
changes:

- ChsGUI_Book.cgb, ChessGUI_Opening_Suite.pgn and HarrySchnapp.cgb have each
been subjected to the following constraints:
1) book is exactly 12 moves deep
2) no duplicates
3) no transformations
4) material at least 1Queen+1Rook+2Bishops+1Knight+5Pawns per side.
These constraints shrink HarrySchnapp.cgb from 58000 to 24000 positions.
ChsGUI_Book.cgb and ChessGUI_Opening_Suite.pgn each have 46000 positions.

- ChessGUI.exe has been updated to apply identical constraints on
ChessGUI_Opening_Suite.pgn and remis books (*.cgb) during book creation.

Matthias.

[Matthias Gemuh]

The initialization of a RoundRobin or Gauntlet tournament with thousands of cycles was pathetically slow.
ChessGUI 0.193 dramatically speeds that up.

ChessGUI 0.192 was already bug-free, so ChessGUI 0.193 is just an optimization .

I may yet try to optically scale ChessGUI differently before pausing the ChessGUI project.


Matthias.

[IGarcia]

downloading....

Arena is great, but Im looking for some fresh air GUI. Maybe yours will do the job. Also im downloading BigLion.

[Matthias Gemuh]

downloading....

Arena is great, but Im looking for some fresh air GUI. Maybe yours will do the job. Also im downloading BigLion.

Try importing engines from Arena and tell us here whether that works.
I have not installed Arena since many years, so I cannot test importing engines from Arena.

I think BigLion is a bit weaker than Stockfish.

Matthias.

[hgm]

I think BigLion is a bit weaker than Stockfish.

It will beat Stockfish any day at Capablanca Chess, though!

[Matthias Gemuh]

I think BigLion is a bit weaker than Stockfish.

It will beat Stockfish any day at Capablanca Chess, though!

BigLion80 is the Capablanca guy, BigLion is confined to the 8x8 prison cell

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[Graham Banks]

downloading....

Arena is great, but Im looking for some fresh air GUI. Maybe yours will do the job. Also im downloading BigLion.

If you're looking at running engine v engine tournaments, you won't be disappointed!