Ponti wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2019 5:00 pm
Most of the time I play 5 min+ 3 sec./move time increment.
Last 8 games I lost 7-1 to Prodeo 2.4.
I also want to try Bob's Crafty 25.3 , but I think it is hard to set the crafty.rc file to a similar level.
Shredder's adaptive function is good, I'm playing hard games with an old Android tablet (Motorola Xoom, 1st edition).
Things like tablebases and opening books also matters here. It's not fair to reach an endgame against an engine with tablebases, so I almost all the time turn them off.
I don't know why, but some engines without opening book choose 1...Nc6 against 1.e4, so maybe that's the best reply to it...
Try the most recent version, 25.4... It has an "elo" command. If you say "Elo 2800" I can't really confirm that it will play at 2800. But it has a basic mapping of nodes per second to elo so that "elo 2600" actually plays about 200 Elo weaker than "elo 2800". Now if I can somehow normalize "elo 2800" to an actual Elo, this could be tuned and ought to work pretty well. Note that it was tuned at fast games, so how it performs at very slow games is not tested. I presume that the overall rating will drop some at longer time controls, although dropping the "elo xxx" to "elo xxx-200" ought to still be pretty close to a 200 point drop.
Tested pretty thoroughly, except for the actual mapping of my "elo setting" to the human scale. Probably should once again set Crafty up on a chess server and let it run, but with a formula that only allows longer time controls. But even that is problematic due to humans using computers to cheat online.
Shredder from Stefan Meyer-Kahlen has an option to adapt its strength. If you lose, it lowers its rating and the opposite of course. The Gui hosts this feature. This is what I use when I want to play for fun.
Try any of these XBoard/UCI engines:
These should remain bad even at fastest CPU. Start from bottom for weakest.
I got trouble in getting the binaries for a lot of them, good luck.
xr_a_y wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 8:53 am
If you give a try to Minic level function from 1 to 100, I d be glad to have feedback.
I compiled minic with the syzygy option and got a Linux executable called minic_WITH_SYZYGY_linux_x64. The last line of the JSON file is as follows :
"syzygyPath": "/home/user/jeux/echecs/syzygy/"
1) I must use the UCI protocol in order to be able to start a classic game, Winboard 1 or 2 protocol do not allow to play.
2) I tested the endgame with bishop and knight vs a lonely king. The score is about +99.8 but it cannot mate.
