jdart wrote:I have been using a few engines in the ballpark of Arasan in terms of rating, for testing my engine.
Periodically I revise the list as Arasan gets stronger, and as new engines appear.
I am only interested in Linux, because I moved most of my development to that years ago. I have only one Windows machine.
Also, I can only use engines that are stable at fast time controls, in particular ones that don't crash or hang, and don't lose on time.
It is getting so that is a fairly short list.
Ones I currently use include:
- Texel
- Stockfish (I use 2.2 but all the versions I have tried behave ok)
- Senpai (2.0, have used 1.0 previously)
- Crafty 25.2
I have previously used Toga 3 and Fruit 2.3.1, but those are a bit too weak for me now: they were nice and stable though.
Ones I have tried recently include:
- Pedone - loses on time pretty often. I reported this to the author but it has not been fixed.
- Laser - really didn't work on Linux, games terminate early under cutechess
- Nemorino - v 3 source release didn't compile, dev version does compile but looks like it tries to allocate >1 thread even when Threads option set to 1. Then it dies with a bunch of memory errors.
- Komodo 3 - this works
- Andscacs 0912 - distributed Linux binary does not work on my system. Also doesn't seem to compile on Linux with supplied Makefile.
All these were tested at 0:10+0.1 time control, single threaded, with cutechess-cli.
--Jon
Andscacs should be an excellent opponent for Arasan
It still doesn't work with g++. I am sure I can fix it but I have limited patience with this stuff.
Recent clang versions are ridiculously hard to install on Linux. They have not bothered to get a proper install into the repositories, with the necessary dependencies.
Ethereal may be too far below your engine, but I've never seen Ethereal lose on time on linux. Although the lowest TC I've played is 1+.01s
Maybe give me a few months? :)
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Besides those you mentioned, I have built these on Ubuntu:
Gull
Asmfish (you can get pre-built ones or build your own)
Protector
For professional engines, Shredder is nice on Linux
All of the above scale nicely with cores
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I still use Protector 1.8
I can't remember if I had trouble compiling version 1.9, or did not find it significantly better than version 1.8
In my notes from October 2015, I see that I had to remove "-ansi-pedantic" from the CFLAGS in the Makefile in order to compile my linux version of 1.8 without errors.
Have you tried Rybka? Should probably be in the right range, and the “microwine” layer I made for it at some point makes it appear mostly as a native engine.
