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Your work is absolutely indispensable. I certainly hope it can be revived. Thank you! Of course my work continues...If my website can not be restored, I will build a new one (but hopefully, the old website will be restored in 1-2 weeks...) Beside of these problems, my testings continue and the resu...

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Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:34 am

Patrice Duhamel wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:01 am

Ferdy wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 29, 2021 7:21 pm

lakas.py v0.18.0 is now released.

Thanks, I will try it, with more games.

There is lakas v0.21.0, this one uses the latest nevergrad v0.4.3.

Update your nevergrad with:

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pip install -U nevergrad

Thanks again!

But a null move is not a 'no move'. Stockfish outputs 'none' in this case. Sending 'none' is non-compliant for sure. Sending 0000 is at least a move format defined in the specs. I don't really see the logic that a null move is not a 'no move'. It is certainly not a move; it doesn't move anything. T...

But that's a null move, isn't it? Correct, and using that as bestmove is the only way a UCI engine can say "I'm done with calculating, but I don't have a move". I can't think of another situation why the engine would send a nullmove. I agree. But a null move is not a 'no move'. Stockfish outputs 'n...

At what point is the engine or the GUI responsible for enforcing chess rules such as 3 fold repetition, 50 moves, stalemate, etc? Always the GUI. Looks like the info block does have mate 1 to signify a mate. A mate-in-1, which means mate in the next move - not for a board position that is checkmate...

So why would they need significant time after ucinewgame, then? I'm too lazy to look up SF's source. In my engine, I'm clearing history and hashtables. The latter can take a significant amount of time with large hashtables in relation to short time controls like one second per game without incremen...

Thanks for checking it out. The Ponder-on-off madness is a legacy of the WinBoard kludge to cater to some non-compliant engines, for whch the ponder-off command ('easy' in CECP) was a toggle. It shouldn't be harmful, though. Many Shogi engines crash instantly when you send wtime before btime. So I ...

I got a complaint that Stockfish forfeited on time in WinBoard. But looking at the debug log suggest that Stockfish is in error here. An excerpt: StartChildProcess (dir=".") UCI2WB debug -nice 10 -kill 1 -c "stockfish_21011322_x64_modern.exe" "C:\WinBoard-4.6.2\Engines\stockfish_21011322_x64_modern...

This website has puzzles from time to time. Enjoyed this one. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/01/16/black-and-white-260/ https://www.futilitycloset.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-16-black-and-white.png Wow, good one! Black still has 22 choices of answers to solution. :) Thanks for that ...

Run an optimization combining search and evaluation parameters with promising result. Will you give them a try at Fishtest? What should I do, I am not familiar with Fishtest. Fork the official repo. https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish Create a new branch with your changes. Create an acc...