Well, I have never found a use for a slightly faster SF, but I have found McBrain useful.MikeB wrote:amsfish is still king in my book.
I worked on and off on Crafty with Bob Hyatt on for nearly 25 years. Was more of helper than anything else. Crafty will always have the most special place in my heart for chess engines and the Crafty avatar will be my avatar until the day I die. The colors by the way are Bob's university colors at UAB, the official colors are green and white, but gold is permissible as an accent color.Ovyron wrote:Well, I have never found a use for a slightly faster SF, but I have found McBrain useful.MikeB wrote:amsfish is still king in my book.
By the way, may I inquire about your avatar? Wondering why isn't it something like this?
Bob retired and is living the good life. As they say, a bad day fishing is better than good day at work, and I know he spends quite bit of time on his boat fishing. I have the final source on github and if Bob gets the bug , he knows he can call on me.Ovyron wrote:Thanks for the info!
So how's Crafty development going anyway? Has it stopped?
I'm not saying it's over ;>)Ovyron wrote:But Crafty's inception was a project invented so that other people could benefit from it, basically, to be what Stockfish had become.
Tord Romstad basically quit Glaurung/SF and left in in the hands of Marco Costalba, though many people were added to the credits after their large contributions. Later on Marco moved to the background leaving SF in community's hands.
Why doesn't someone pick up Crafty to continue the project? It's weird to see so many engines based on the Ippolit and Stockfish sources, but a classic like Crafty (Cray Blitz) is left to die?
I think that the best that can be done for the community when an author retires is to open source the project, but if it's going to be sitting there like Crafty, abandoned engines aren't a good precedent.
Note I'm talking about active development, not just maintenance releases (with Crafty 25.4 only being released if a big bug is found) or features like adjustable elo. Someone taking the engine and making it their own.
Round 2:MikeB wrote:Kicked off a second run using a normal test suite - same tc, same links , first results in about 1-1/2 hours from this post or about 1AM EST (NY) time , updates on time s/b every 48 minutes - not the 1 hour it was last night. Also after every 10 games. as before. This run will be 126 games. Links will also have last night's run in case you missed them. The pgn file will only have tonight's games. Will take close to 20 hours to complete.MikeB wrote:amsfish is still king in my book.
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100 rounds and 100 games completed... Time control: 900 seconds + 15.00 seconds Target completion: 01/23/18 : 20:39:59 Date: 01/23/18 : 14:49:42 100 game(s) loaded Rank Name Rating Δ + - # Σ Σ% W L D W% =% OppR --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 asmFishX_2018-01-22_popc 3103 0.0 22 22 100 51.0 51.0 7 5 88 7.0 88.0 3097 2 SF-McB v5.0 64 POPCNT 3097 6.7 22 22 100 49.0 49.0 5 7 88 5.0 88.0 3103 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time to complete: 14:49:44
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126 rounds and 126 games completed...
Time control: 900 seconds + 15.00 seconds
Target completion: 01/25/18 : 00:06:10
Date: 01/24/18 : 19:58:23
126 game(s) loaded
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1 SF-McB v5.0 64 POPCNT 3103 0.0 25 25 126 64.0 50.8 13 11 102 10.3 81.0 3097
2 asmFishX_2018-01-22_popc 3097 5.3 25 25 126 62.0 49.2 11 13 102 8.7 81.0 3103
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