EXchess v7.17 released

[dchoman]

Hi Everyone,

EXchess v7.17 is now available from my new webaddress...

https://sites.google.com/site/experimentalchessprogram/

This version is a modest improvement on v7.11, as I haven't had much development time; however, I think it may have gained about 20-30 elo over the previous version. More importantly, a few bugs have been fixed related to time control and multi-threaded processing. Depending on how you use the program, the elo gain may be larger due to these fixes.

Thanks!

- Dan

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Thanks Daniel....

Will be tested
Dr.D

[Graham Banks]

Hi Everyone,

EXchess v7.17 is now available from my new webaddress...

https://sites.google.com/site/experimentalchessprogram/

This version is a modest improvement on v7.11, as I haven't had much development time; however, I think it may have gained about 20-30 elo over the previous version. More importantly, a few bugs have been fixed related to time control and multi-threaded processing. Depending on how you use the program, the elo gain may be larger due to these fixes.

Thanks!

- Dan

Thanks Dan.
Should be interesting to see how much gain there is.

[CositasBuenas]

Hi Dan,

I tried using Exchess with Scid on my linux machine. How do I tell the GUI to make Exchess use more than one core?

Michael

[Sylwy]

Hi Dan,

I tried using Exchess with Scid on my linux machine. How do I tell the GUI to make Exchess use more than one core?

Michael

Hi Michael !

Take a look in the search.par file (in the below area):

========================
THREADS 1 # number of processors to use, this may be changed
# by the 'cores' command, either on the
# command line or while the program is running
# Maximum value = LIMIT_THREADS

LIMIT_THREADS 4 # Maximum number of processors the program can use
# after it is started. The number of processors
# can be changed dynamically with the 'cores' command
# up to the limit defined here.
# Maximum value = 16 (hard coded limit)
========================

Have a nice weekend !

SilvianR

[JuLieN]

This version is a modest improvement on v7.11, as I haven't had much development time; however, I think it may have gained about 20-30 elo over the previous version. More importantly, a few bugs have been fixed related to time control and multi-threaded processing. Depending on how you use the program, the elo gain may be larger due to these fixes.

Hi Dan,

my quick tests, after 440 games at bullet time, show ExChess 7.17b to be about 17+ Elo points stronger than 7.11b. Congrats!

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  61 EXchess-7.17b             : 2637.6     111.0     440   25.2%
  64 EXchess-7.11b             : 2620.3     209.0     600   34.8%

[CositasBuenas]

thank you!

[GenoM]

thanks, glad to see one of the first chess engines I had on my computer is still developed

[ernest]

my quick tests, after 440 games at bullet time, show ExChess 7.17b to be about 17+ Elo points stronger than 7.11b.

Hi Julien,

Coming from you, I would have expected you also give the error bars!...

[JuLieN]

my quick tests, after 440 games at bullet time, show ExChess 7.17b to be about 17+ Elo points stronger than 7.11b.

Hi Julien,

Coming from you, I would have expected you also give the error bars!...

I blame it all on Miguel: Ordo doesn't give such informations (or it does but I don't know it because I didn't read the manual! )