Frank Walter
Moderators: hgm, Rebel, chrisw
-
- Posts: 1364
- Joined: Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:43 am
- Location: Szentendre, Hungary
- Full name: Gabor Szots
Frank Walter
If somebody knows how to run this engine under Arena and 64-bit Windows 10, please share the secret with me. Even with the command line left empty (no syzygy) it does not move.
Gabor Szots
CCRL testing group
CCRL testing group
-
- Posts: 68
- Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:23 am
- Full name: Laurens Winkelhagen
Re: Frank Walter
Hi Gabor,
Thank you for testing my engine in Arena, I must admit I had not.
I've downloaded Arena, installed my engine as normal (type .jar, select the jar and it loads automagically) but I also found that the engine did not start moving.
I've analyzed my engine output and I see that the engine is not getting a command that it's expecting (namely 'go'). I'll try to fix this shortly but meanwhile there is a workaround:
1) if you want to play black you can use the ctrl-z shortcut to issue the 'go' command to Frank-Walter, and it will start with the white pieces
2) if you want to play white, you can just move, but the engine doesn't react without the 'go' command and the ctrl-z shortcut doesn't work then. The workaround is to press F4, go to commands and choose to execute the 'go' command from there.
I hope that helps for now and I will try to make an Arena compatible version soon:-) I have not tried yet if there is a workaround for tourneys :-(
--Laurens
Thank you for testing my engine in Arena, I must admit I had not.
I've downloaded Arena, installed my engine as normal (type .jar, select the jar and it loads automagically) but I also found that the engine did not start moving.
I've analyzed my engine output and I see that the engine is not getting a command that it's expecting (namely 'go'). I'll try to fix this shortly but meanwhile there is a workaround:
1) if you want to play black you can use the ctrl-z shortcut to issue the 'go' command to Frank-Walter, and it will start with the white pieces
2) if you want to play white, you can just move, but the engine doesn't react without the 'go' command and the ctrl-z shortcut doesn't work then. The workaround is to press F4, go to commands and choose to execute the 'go' command from there.
I hope that helps for now and I will try to make an Arena compatible version soon:-) I have not tried yet if there is a workaround for tourneys :-(
--Laurens
Author of JanWillem (C, WB, inactive) and FrankWalter (Java, WB, https://github.com/ljgw/frankwalter)
-
- Posts: 68
- Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:23 am
- Full name: Laurens Winkelhagen
Re: Frank Walter
Actually, and this is a bit embarrassing, I seem to have problems under all GUIs since I made some changes to the interface code to fix some timing issues. I just never tested playing a game against my own engine. Tourneys and matches in winboard and cutechess work perfectly.
All the more reason to quickly fix this!
Thanks for your patience,
--Laurens
Author of JanWillem (C, WB, inactive) and FrankWalter (Java, WB, https://github.com/ljgw/frankwalter)
-
- Posts: 1296
- Joined: Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:46 pm
- Location: Kelowna
- Full name: Tony Mokonen
Re: Frank Walter
I was able to run Frank-Walter 2.2.1 in Arena by using WB2UCI. I am not 100% sure I am using the correct command line options, but this is what is in my wb2uci.eng file:
Version 2.2.0 works for me in Arena with just a simple batch file.
Code: Select all
[ENGINE]
Name=Frank-Walter 2.2.1
Author=Laurens Winkelhagen
Filename=Wb2Uci.exe
[OPTIONS]
Program=java -jar -Xms150m -Xmx1024m frankwalter.jar -tt 24 -tb C:\Games\Chess\syzygy
; See Wb2Uci.html for more options
-
- Posts: 1364
- Joined: Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:43 am
- Location: Szentendre, Hungary
- Full name: Gabor Szots
Re: Frank Walter
Thanks for the reply Laurens, I'm looking forward to the fixed version.ljgw wrote: ↑Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:59 pmActually, and this is a bit embarrassing, I seem to have problems under all GUIs since I made some changes to the interface code to fix some timing issues. I just never tested playing a game against my own engine. Tourneys and matches in winboard and cutechess work perfectly.
All the more reason to quickly fix this!
Thanks for your patience,
--Laurens
Gabor
BTW, is the name FrankWalter or Frank-Walter or something? We used JanWillem with your old engine.
Gabor Szots
CCRL testing group
CCRL testing group
-
- Posts: 68
- Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:23 am
- Full name: Laurens Winkelhagen
Re: Frank Walter
Hi Gabor,Gabor Szots wrote: ↑Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:36 pm
Thanks for the reply Laurens, I'm looking forward to the fixed version.
Gabor
BTW, is the name FrankWalter or Frank-Walter or something? We used JanWillem with your old engine.
The fixed version is released:-) It can be downloaded from computer-chess.org
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=c ... lter:index
About the name: FrankWalter is fine, it looks more natural to me anyway. Frank-Walter is the historical spelling to be honest;-)
Actually I saw that in CCRL 40/4 the name is also typed as FrankWalter.
Thank you,
--Laurens
Author of JanWillem (C, WB, inactive) and FrankWalter (Java, WB, https://github.com/ljgw/frankwalter)
-
- Posts: 1364
- Joined: Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:43 am
- Location: Szentendre, Hungary
- Full name: Gabor Szots
-
- Posts: 1364
- Joined: Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:43 am
- Location: Szentendre, Hungary
- Full name: Gabor Szots
-
- Posts: 6340
- Joined: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:34 pm
- Location: Acworth, GA
Re: Frank Walter
It worked for me in a quick eng vs eng match.
"Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions."
__________________________________________________________________
Ted Summers
__________________________________________________________________
Ted Summers
-
- Posts: 1364
- Joined: Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:43 am
- Location: Szentendre, Hungary
- Full name: Gabor Szots
Re: Frank Walter
I wonder if it is a java version problem again. I have j8 and j11, maybe the path points to the wrong one.AdminX wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:19 pmIt worked for me in a quick eng vs eng match.
EDIT: I have just checked and my Arena uses the 8.191 version.
Gabor Szots
CCRL testing group
CCRL testing group