Cutechess tournament with Bihasa problem losing on time .

George Tsavdaris · Post by **George Tsavdaris** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 8:31 pm

I'm trying to test some modified piece values for Bihasa 2.3 in the game of Gothic Chess in Cutechess 0.9.4 and while everything loads correctly etc the games ar enot being played correctly.

I'm setting a new tournament between Bihasa 2.3 with default values and Bihasa 2.3 on another folder with modified values , choose to play from a PGN with 25 games(openings), choose 50 rounds, and play each opening twice, choose variant gothic and time control 1 second per move.

I run it but the engines don't play as intended and lose on time every game! In the older cutechess-cli 0.40 the engines play just fine.
Why is that??

EDIT:
Same happens with other engines in other variants.

Here is the PGN output(for another tournament with 2 seconds per move where still the loses on time occur again):

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "1"]
[White "bihasa32"]
[Black "bihasa32mod"]
[Result "0-1"]
[PlyCount "18"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. f4 {book} f5 {book} 2. Nh3 {book} Nc6 {book} 3. g3 {book} d5 {book}
4. d4 {book} g6 {book} 5. c3 {book} Nh6 {book} 6. Bf3 {book} Bg7 {book}
7. Af2 {book} Af6 {book} 8. Cg2 {book} O-O {book} 9. e3 {book}
i6 {book, White loses on time} 0-1

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "2"]
[White "bihasa32mod"]
[Black "bihasa32"]
[Result "0-1"]
[PlyCount "4"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. f4 {book} d5 {book} 2. Nh3 {book} f5 {book, White loses on time} 0-1

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "3"]
[White "bihasa32"]
[Black "bihasa32mod"]
[Result "0-1"]
[PlyCount "4"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. d4 {book} f5 {book} 2. Nh3 {book} d5 {book, White loses on time} 0-1

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "4"]
[White "bihasa32mod"]
[Black "bihasa32"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "3"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. c4 {book} f5 {book} 2. Nc3 {book, Black loses on time} 1-0

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "5"]
[White "bihasa32"]
[Black "bihasa32mod"]
[Result "0-1"]
[PlyCount "16"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. f4 {book} d5 {book} 2. g3 {book} Nh6 {book} 3. h3 {book} f5 {book}
4. Nj3 {book} Nc6 {book} 5. c3 {book} g6 {book} 6. Ah2 {book} e5 {+1.32/13 2.0s}
7. i3 {-1.20/11 2.0s} Bf6 {+1.20/13 2.0s} 8. fxe5 {-1.00/13 2.0s}
Nxe5 {+1.12/13 2.0s, White loses on time} 0-1

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "6"]
[White "bihasa32mod"]
[Black "bihasa32"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "9"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. f4 {book} f5 {book} 2. d4 {book} g6 {book} 3. c3 {book} Nh6 {+0.04/13 2.0s}
4. Nd2 {-0.04/12 2.0s} d5 {+0.04/13 2.0s}
5. Nh3 {-0.08/13 2.0s, Black loses on time} 1-0

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "7"]
[White "bihasa32"]
[Black "bihasa32mod"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "3"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. f4 {book} Nh6 {book} 2. d4 {book, Black loses on time} 1-0

Ferdy · Post by **Ferdy** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 11:30 pm

George Tsavdaris wrote:I'm trying to test some modified piece values for Bihasa 2.3 in the game of Gothic Chess in Cutechess 0.9.4 and while everything loads correctly etc the games ar enot being played correctly.

I'm setting a new tournament between Bihasa 2.3 with default values and Bihasa 2.3 on another folder with modified values , choose to play from a PGN with 25 games(openings), choose 50 rounds, and play each opening twice, choose variant gothic and time control 1 second per move.

I run it but the engines don't play as intended and lose on time every game! In the older cutechess-cli 0.40 the engines play just fine.
Why is that??

EDIT:
Same happens with other engines in other variants.

Here is the PGN output(for another tournament with 2 seconds per move where still the loses on time occur again):

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "1"]
[White "bihasa32"]
[Black "bihasa32mod"]
[Result "0-1"]
[PlyCount "18"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. f4 {book} f5 {book} 2. Nh3 {book} Nc6 {book} 3. g3 {book} d5 {book}
4. d4 {book} g6 {book} 5. c3 {book} Nh6 {book} 6. Bf3 {book} Bg7 {book}
7. Af2 {book} Af6 {book} 8. Cg2 {book} O-O {book} 9. e3 {book}
i6 {book, White loses on time} 0-1

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "2"]
[White "bihasa32mod"]
[Black "bihasa32"]
[Result "0-1"]
[PlyCount "4"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. f4 {book} d5 {book} 2. Nh3 {book} f5 {book, White loses on time} 0-1

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "3"]
[White "bihasa32"]
[Black "bihasa32mod"]
[Result "0-1"]
[PlyCount "4"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. d4 {book} f5 {book} 2. Nh3 {book} d5 {book, White loses on time} 0-1

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "4"]
[White "bihasa32mod"]
[Black "bihasa32"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "3"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. c4 {book} f5 {book} 2. Nc3 {book, Black loses on time} 1-0

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "5"]
[White "bihasa32"]
[Black "bihasa32mod"]
[Result "0-1"]
[PlyCount "16"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. f4 {book} d5 {book} 2. g3 {book} Nh6 {book} 3. h3 {book} f5 {book}
4. Nj3 {book} Nc6 {book} 5. c3 {book} g6 {book} 6. Ah2 {book} e5 {+1.32/13 2.0s}
7. i3 {-1.20/11 2.0s} Bf6 {+1.20/13 2.0s} 8. fxe5 {-1.00/13 2.0s}
Nxe5 {+1.12/13 2.0s, White loses on time} 0-1

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "6"]
[White "bihasa32mod"]
[Black "bihasa32"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "9"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. f4 {book} f5 {book} 2. d4 {book} g6 {book} 3. c3 {book} Nh6 {+0.04/13 2.0s}
4. Nd2 {-0.04/12 2.0s} d5 {+0.04/13 2.0s}
5. Nh3 {-0.08/13 2.0s, Black loses on time} 1-0

[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2016.12.25"]
[Round "7"]
[White "bihasa32"]
[Black "bihasa32mod"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "3"]
[Termination "time forfeit"]
[TimeControl "2/move"]
[Variant "gothic"]

1. f4 {book} Nh6 {book} 2. d4 {book, Black loses on time} 1-0

Just add time margin of say 5ms or so in Time Control. I noticed this problem on my other engines too, I failed to reserve a small margin of time before sending the move. I have not checked the code yet.

George Tsavdaris · Post by **George Tsavdaris** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 12:15 pm

Ferdy wrote: Just add time margin of say 5ms or so in Time Control. I noticed this problem on my other engines too, I failed to reserve a small margin of time before sending the move. I have not checked the code yet.

Yep, that was it. Thanks.

BTW in the ini file what the 2 values of each piece represent?
For example for Pawn:
Pawn_Value 75 100

What is the first value for and what the second?
Also it would be nice to add more values to play with like mobility, etc.
Do you plan a newer release of Bihasa anytime soon?

Ferdy · Post by **Ferdy** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 12:43 pm

George Tsavdaris wrote:
Ferdy wrote: Just add time margin of say 5ms or so in Time Control. I noticed this problem on my other engines too, I failed to reserve a small margin of time before sending the move. I have not checked the code yet.
Yep, that was it. Thanks.

BTW in the ini file what the 2 values of each piece represent?
For example for Pawn:
Pawn_Value 75 100

What is the first value for and what the second?
Also it would be nice to add more values to play with like mobility, etc.
Do you plan a newer release of Bihasa anytime soon?

That is opening and ending values.

I plan to remove the ini file, and yes I will provide other options that can be set by the user.

Trying some ideas, but difficult to improve so far, blitz 3m+2s.

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Score of Bihasa v4.3 vs Bihasa v3.2&#58; 20 - 14 - 17 &#91;0.559&#93;
Elo difference&#58; 41.06 +/- 79.43

51 of 60 games finished.

I will issue a new version before the year ends.

George Tsavdaris · Post by **George Tsavdaris** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 1:13 pm

Ferdy wrote: I plan to remove the ini file, and yes I will provide other options that can be set by the user.

If not by an ini file then how?
Having an ini file is easy to match with cutechess-cli against 2 Bihasa engines.

I will issue a new version before the year ends.

Great.

Ferdy · Post by **Ferdy** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 2:02 pm

George Tsavdaris wrote:
Ferdy wrote: I plan to remove the ini file, and yes I will provide other options that can be set by the user.
If not by an ini file then how?
Having an ini file is easy to match with cutechess-cli against 2 Bihasa engines.

I will issue a new version before the year ends.
Great.

For cutechess-cli, an example json entry could be.

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   &#123; 
      "command" &#58; "Bihasa_v4.3.exe",
      "name" &#58; "Bihasa v4.3 defMat",
      "options" &#58; &#91; 
         &#123; 
            "name" &#58; "PawnValueOp",
            "value" &#58; 75
         &#125;,
	      &#123; 
            "name" &#58; "PawnValueEn",
            "value" &#58; 100
         &#125;,
	      &#123; 
            "name" &#58; "Resign",
            "value" &#58; 1
         &#125;	 
      &#93;, 
      "protocol" &#58; "xboard", 
      "workingDirectory" &#58; "C&#58;\\chess_variant\\engines\\nobook\\Bihasa"
   &#125;,

Console:

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xboard
feature done=0

protover
feature ping=1 time=1 setboard=1 name=1 colors=1 debug=1
feature draw=0 sigint=0 sigterm=0 reuse=0 analyze=1 ics=1
feature variants="capablanca,gothic"
feature memory=1
feature myname="Bihasa v4.3"
feature option="MultiPV -spin 1 1 300"
feature option="Resign -check 0"
feature option="ResignScore -spin -1200 -30000 30000"
feature option="Ponder -check 1"
feature option="Book -check 0"
feature option="ContemptValue -spin 0 -1000 1000"
feature option="PawnValueOp -spin 75 0 1000"
feature option="PawnValueEn -spin 100 0 1000"
feature done=1

Ferdy · Post by **Ferdy** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 8:27 am

George Tsavdaris wrote:
Ferdy wrote: I plan to remove the ini file, and yes I will provide other options that can be set by the user.
If not by an ini file then how?
Having an ini file is easy to match with cutechess-cli against 2 Bihasa engines.

I will issue a new version before the year ends.
Great.

It is now released here.

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62615

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