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
EXchess v7.17 released
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Re: EXchess v7.17 released
Thanks Daniel....
Will be tested
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Will be tested
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Re: EXchess v7.17 released
Thanks Dan.dchoman wrote: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
Should be interesting to see how much gain there is.
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Re: EXchess v7.17 released
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
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
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Re: EXchess v7.17 released
Hi Michael !CositasBuenas wrote: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
Take a look in the search.par file (in the below area):
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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)
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Have a nice weekend !
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Re: EXchess v7.17 released
Hi Dan,dchoman wrote: 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.
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%
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Re: EXchess v7.17 released
thanks, glad to see one of the first chess engines I had on my computer is still developed
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Re: EXchess v7.17 released
Hi Julien,JuLieN wrote:my quick tests, after 440 games at bullet time, show ExChess 7.17b to be about 17+ Elo points stronger than 7.11b.
Coming from you, I would have expected you also give the error bars!...
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Re: EXchess v7.17 released
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! )ernest wrote:Hi Julien,JuLieN wrote:my quick tests, after 440 games at bullet time, show ExChess 7.17b to be about 17+ Elo points stronger than 7.11b.
Coming from you, I would have expected you also give the error bars!...
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