EXchess v6.70 released

[dchoman]

Hi Everyone,

EXchess v6.70 is now released at

http://personal.denison.edu/~homand/EXchess.htm

I've had very little time to work on it over the last months, but there is some improvements over the previous version in king safety and a bit on the search. Also some bug fixes, most significantly on time control management for games with increment (thanks to Jon Dart for pointing that out!).

- Dan

[Graham Banks]

Hi Everyone,

EXchess v6.70 is now released at

http://personal.denison.edu/~homand/EXchess.htm

I've had very little time to work on it over the last months, but there is some improvements over the previous version in king safety and a bit on the search. Also some bug fixes, most significantly on time control management for games with increment (thanks to Jon Dart for pointing that out!).

- Dan

Thanks Dan.

[Sylwy]

Nice engine ! Thank you !
Just now a short test !

SilvianR

[Werner]

Thanks Daniel,
had first some Troubles with Arena 3.0 to configure for 256 MB hash.
After changing wb Parameters in Arena it worked.

Werner

[dchoman]

Thanks Daniel,
can you please help me to configure you engine
EXchess_v6.70b_win64.exe 1.919.408 19.12.2012 21:25 -a--
inside Arena 3.0 for 256 MB hash. I always get only 35 MB.
My changes:
# Hash Tables - larger is generally better,
# but don't exceed your available RAM, if you
# do - the search will slow down to a crawl.

HASH 256 # in megabytes (minimum is 16)

# For some programs using the xboard protocol, set XBOARD to 1
# This will make EXchess start in xboard mode, rather than waiting
# for the "xboard" command from the host program. Only use this
# if necessary
If I start in console mode this works but not inside Arena3.0

Here I get automatically this commandline
xb hash 32

changing this does not work here.

just tested in Arena 2.01 - and here it works

Under Arena 3.0 in Windows 7, I have to go into the engine configuration under the menus. Then I select EXchess, and I edit the command line to read "xb hash 256". This works fine for me with my copy of Arena 3.0. It usually takes a few moves out of book before the program shows 256 mb of memory used during play, not sure why.

- Dan

[Werner]

Thanks for the answer,
I changed in Arena 3.0:
Engine Management
Common Parameter Settings
Maximum 256 MB

Now it works fine here