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New engine release: Jumbo
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 3:37 pm
by Sven
Since this is my CCC post #3000 I want to announce my new chess engine "Jumbo" (current version: 0.1.5). As intended, its rating is exactly 3000, of course.
When choosing the right scale.
Download and infos
"Jumbo" played its first
online blitz tournament last Saturday on HGM's server. Changes since then were a time control bugfix for conventional TC and some pawn eval improvements.
Future plans include:
- work on usability (configuration, e.g. hash size; book support; analyze mode)
- improve the search
- build two engine variants (twins) where one is using mailbox and the other bitboards, everything else the same
- parameter tuning
- parallel search
- Elo 3001
Re: New engine release: Jumbo
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 4:22 pm
by Guenther
Thanks Sven! A pity you were not paired against Skipper in the first tournament ;-)
Re: New engine release: Jumbo
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 4:32 pm
by Sven
Guenther wrote:Thanks Sven! A pity you were not paired against Skipper in the first tournament
Yes. It would have been the next pairing in round 10, though ...
Re: New engine release: Jumbo
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:28 pm
by Desperado
Congrats
Re: New engine release: Jumbo
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:59 pm
by Graham Banks
A successor to Surprise.
Re: New engine release: Jumbo
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:54 pm
by Sven
Graham Banks wrote:A successor to Surprise.
Yes, but also to KnockOut.
Surprise was released in 2004, KnockOut in 2010, Jumbo in 2016.
Re: New engine release: Jumbo
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:49 pm
by mar
Sven Schüle wrote:
Yes, but also to KnockOut.
Surprise was released in 2004, KnockOut in 2010, Jumbo in 2016.
I sense a pattern
Congratulations
Re: New engine release: Jumbo
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:57 pm
by Adam Hair
Did you write the code from scratch or did you copy from an established engine such as Moron? I seem to recall some dispute between you and Fern about code similarities
Seriously, your announcement has caused me for the first time in a awhile to wish that I had an active computer. I would love to run some matches with Jumbo. I am glad to see that you are still active, Sven.
Re: New engine release: Jumbo
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:40 pm
by Sven
mar wrote:Sven Schüle wrote:
Yes, but also to KnockOut.
Surprise was released in 2004, KnockOut in 2010, Jumbo in 2016.
I sense a pattern
Congratulations
Code: Select all
By year:
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Surprise KnockOut Jumbo
By target elo:
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Surprise KnockOut Jumbo
Re: New engine release: Jumbo
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 11:09 pm
by Sven
SzG wrote:Thanks Sven.
I have a problem, though. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I have had 75 time forfeits by Jumbo out of 139 games. WinBoard 4.0.8b used under 64-bit Win10.
It may very well be the well-known problem of the engine not counting the moves fed by an external book.
Hi Gabor,
I guess you did not use WinBoard 4.0.8b but a more recent version ...
Moves fed by an external book should usually not cause a problem, Jumbo should handle that correctly. It may be a problem of the time management code, though. Which TC did you use, and do you have a debug log?