Minic version 3

[Terje]

You'll get him next time, Weiss

I remember you said at TCEC that you had plans to implement NNUE into your engine.

I was trying to do that back in July or so, but the goal was to show how strong NNUE is - that has already been done, so for now I have little motivation to do it. I don't know if I want to use NNUE as the evaluation for Weiss yet.

[Terje]

You'll get him next time, Weiss

Here is clear Weiss victory, and as Black , maybe Minic pushed it too hard on this one !

[pgn]
[Event "My Tournament"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2020.11.03"]
[Round "415"]
[White "minic_3.00_nnue"]
[Black "weiss"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B04"]
[GameDuration "00:00:27"]
[GameEndTime "2020-11-03T17:19:34.409 CET"]
[GameStartTime "2020-11-03T17:19:07.295 CET"]
[Opening "Alekhine's defense"]
[PlyCount "104"]
[TimeControl "10+0.1"]
[Variation "Modern, Larsen Variation"]

1. e4 {book} Nf6 {book} 2. e5 {book} Nd5 {book} 3. d4 {book} d6 {book}
4. Nf3 {book} dxe5 {book} 5. Nxe5 {+1.06/14 0.54s} Nd7 {-0.42/15 0.46s}
6. Nxf7 {+1.59/16 0.64s} Kxf7 {0.00/17 0.30s} 7. Qh5+ {+1.96/16 0.63s}
Ke6 {0.00/18 0.29s} 8. c4 {+1.38/14 0.63s} N5f6 {+1.43/15 0.60s}
9. d5+ {+2.47/16 0.48s} Kd6 {+1.35/15 0.30s} 10. Qf7 {+2.46/18 0.55s}
Ne5 {+2.03/15 0.35s} 11. Bf4 {+2.67/13 0.36s} c5 {+1.78/15 0.32s}
12. Nc3 {+3.62/15 0.52s} a6 {+2.18/15 0.65s} 13. O-O-O {+3.21/14 0.51s}
g6 {+2.33/14 0.37s} 14. Bxe5+ {-0.26/11 0.36s} Kxe5 {+2.12/13 0.25s}
15. d6 {+0.08/13 0.34s} Bh6+ {+2.24/15 0.77s} 16. Kb1 {-1.75/13 0.48s}
Rf8 {+2.45/15 0.37s} 17. Qxe7+ {-1.91/16 0.43s} Qxe7 {+2.61/16 0.32s}
18. dxe7 {-2.51/15 0.43s} Re8 {+2.63/16 0.33s} 19. Nd5 {-2.55/14 0.26s}
Nxd5 {+4.46/16 0.28s} 20. Rxd5+ {-3.54/13 0.40s} Kf6 {+4.57/15 0.21s}
21. Bd3 {-4.07/16 0.36s} Rxe7 {+4.56/16 0.39s} 22. Rxc5 {-4.19/15 0.34s}
Be6 {+5.06/16 0.24s} 23. Be4 {-4.25/14 0.19s} Rd8 {+4.72/16 0.32s}
24. Bd5 {-4.72/14 0.35s} Bf5+ {+5.04/16 0.21s} 25. Ka1 {-4.35/13 0.35s}
Bd2 {+4.53/16 0.19s} 26. a3 {-3.87/12 0.29s} Be1 {+5.67/15 0.22s}
27. f4 {-4.59/13 0.32s} Bf2 {+6.93/18 0.23s} 28. Ra5 {-4.70/12 0.19s}
Bb6 {+7.10/18 0.23s} 29. Ra4 {-5.14/12 0.24s} a5 {+7.23/17 0.19s}
30. c5 {-5.61/14 0.26s} Bxc5 {+7.67/17 0.33s} 31. Bf3 {-6.39/15 0.28s}
b6 {+7.75/18 0.34s} 32. h4 {-7.42/12 0.27s} Re3 {+9.28/17 0.41s}
33. Rc4 {-8.15/11 0.15s} Rd2 {+9.64/14 0.18s} 34. Rc3 {-8.15/14 0.15s}
Rxc3 {+11.01/16 0.28s} 35. bxc3 {-8.62/14 0.24s} Bxa3 {+11.20/15 0.33s}
36. Re1 {-8.55/13 0.24s} Bb2+ {+12.42/15 0.17s} 37. Ka2 {-9.03/13 0.20s}
Bxc3+ {+14.33/15 0.19s} 38. Kb3 {-8.83/11 0.22s} Bb4 {+14.83/15 0.21s}
39. Rc1 {-10.95/13 0.20s} b5 {+15.27/14 0.18s} 40. Rc6+ {-11.35/20 0.17s}
Be6+ {+15.56/14 0.15s} 41. Rxe6+ {-11.62/17 0.18s} Kxe6 {+15.61/13 0.19s}
42. Bc6 {-12.02/16 0.18s} Kf5 {+16.08/16 0.23s} 43. g3 {-12.11/14 0.12s}
Rd3+ {+16.43/16 0.22s} 44. Kb2 {-12.60/15 0.18s} a4 {+20.08/15 0.14s}
45. Bxb5 {-12.82/12 0.12s} a3+ {+27.50/14 0.17s} 46. Kc1 {-14.61/13 0.11s}
Rxg3 {+27.88/17 0.19s} 47. Bd7+ {-14.41/13 0.14s} Kf6 {+28.50/16 0.14s}
48. h5 {-19.99/12 0.17s} a2 {+M21/18 0.24s} 49. Kb2 {-26.89/13 0.15s}
Ra3 {+M7/24 0.13s} 50. Be6 {-99.94/23 0.074s} a1=Q+ {+M5/127 0.032s}
51. Kc2 {-99.96/81 0.053s} Qc3+ {+M3/127 0.014s} 52. Kb1 {-99.98/121 0.022s}
Ra1# {+M1/127 0.013s, Black mates} 0-1
[/pgn]

Winning with the king in the front lines is pretty badass

[carldaman]

Second year anniversary for Minic ! and a new version number 3.00

Porting Stockfish NNUE implementation inside Minic was fun and instructive. This has clearly raised my interest in NN technologies and in this sense is a success.
As you already know, I was never comfortable with the big copy/paste of SF code involved, nor with the use of SF based nets of course.
This is why I first trained a net with my own data (but using Nodchip learner), namely the "napping nexus" net and then merged the learner directly inside Minic in order to train the pure Minic net named "nascent nutrient". Still, this was not enough to make me feel this technology and code can be inside Minic this way and in no way this can be considered as an "official" version of Minic as soon as a NNUE net is in use. This is why I decided to not use SF implementation anymore. This means that, starting from version 3, Minic is no more compatible with SF nets. Only versions 2.47 to 2.53 can read and use SF nets (and only using NNUE version 0x7AF32F16u nets).

In the meantime, I discovered Seer engine by Connor McMonigle (https://github.com/connormcmonigle/seer-nnue), and was very impressed by its code quality. This engine propose a very clear and simple to understand and use NNUE implementation. This implementation allows to very easily change architecture of the net and implements an engine-independent training code using pytorch. I decided to borrow this code base and adapt it to Minic (was very easy). This is a good compromise for me, a code base I can understand and work with, a very good starting point.

I then trained a first net for it, named "nefarious nucleus" (available here : https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/NNUE-Nets) that performs even with standard Minic2.53 eval at short TC (10s+0.1). Maybe better at longer TC...

My hope is of course to train better nets, probably try other architectures and also speed-up the code that is for now quite slow.

Please note that Minic 3.00 with no net loaded is weaker than version 2.53 because it has less nps. So that there is probably no need for testing for now ...

So for now this is a just a new forum thread for a new story

Very interesting release , but following the link to Minic (on github), I don't see version 3.00, but only 2.53 and older.

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi Carldaman,

1. https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/Minic-Dist/ ... (directorys for versions 0.x, 1.x, 2.x and now 3.x)
2. https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/Minic/ ... (ended with v2.53, important here the readme)
3. https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/NNUE-Nets ... (the net files)

All isn't easy?!
To many updates and important changes from TOP-engines.
That's excellent but I am sitting to long on my PC ... opinion from my wife.
I have the biggest problems to hold the own link-selection up-to-date.
All the time my own link-selection had to many holes / mistakes and are never good.
I fixed my own desaster in the last days.

(77 of strongest engines, interesting for me for Wasp testing and organization for my text tourney's).
http://www.amateurschach.de/main/_engines.htm

Best
Frank

For Vivien!
Situation around Minic for myself in question of testing is clear.
Good luck with your new ideas and thanks for your new version!
Go Minic go ... for the next tourney!

[David Carteau]

Second year anniversary for Minic ! and a new version number 3.00

Porting Stockfish NNUE implementation inside Minic was fun and instructive. This has clearly raised my interest in NN technologies and in this sense is a success.
As you already know, I was never comfortable with the big copy/paste of SF code involved, nor with the use of SF based nets of course.
This is why I first trained a net with my own data (but using Nodchip learner), namely the "napping nexus" net and then merged the learner directly inside Minic in order to train the pure Minic net named "nascent nutrient". Still, this was not enough to make me feel this technology and code can be inside Minic this way and in no way this can be considered as an "official" version of Minic as soon as a NNUE net is in use. This is why I decided to not use SF implementation anymore. This means that, starting from version 3, Minic is no more compatible with SF nets. Only versions 2.47 to 2.53 can read and use SF nets (and only using NNUE version 0x7AF32F16u nets).

In the meantime, I discovered Seer engine by Connor McMonigle (https://github.com/connormcmonigle/seer-nnue), and was very impressed by its code quality. This engine propose a very clear and simple to understand and use NNUE implementation. This implementation allows to very easily change architecture of the net and implements an engine-independent training code using pytorch. I decided to borrow this code base and adapt it to Minic (was very easy). This is a good compromise for me, a code base I can understand and work with, a very good starting point.

I then trained a first net for it, named "nefarious nucleus" (available here : https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/NNUE-Nets) that performs even with standard Minic2.53 eval at short TC (10s+0.1). Maybe better at longer TC...

My hope is of course to train better nets, probably try other architectures and also speed-up the code that is for now quite slow.

Please note that Minic 3.00 with no net loaded is weaker than version 2.53 because it has less nps. So that there is probably no need for testing for now ...

So for now this is a just a new forum thread for a new story

Well done Vivien !

I'm struggling with my own NNUE trainer implementation for a month now. After reading thousands (!) of sites dealing with NN training, I tried different approaches : genetic algortihms (PBIL), gradient descent (manual implementation), both of them being really tow slow (no vectorization), and then I decided to use "standard" way to train NN, using existing libraries/tools.

I first develop a trainer based on Keras and now I'm using Pytorch (mainly because I was unable to understand how to concatenate layers in Keras...!). Despite more than one month of different runs, I can't manage to obtain good results. I had first built a set of 115 million unique positions, but thinking that my problem may come from a too small dataset, I'm using now 360 million positions (extracted from all CCRL games !). I was wondering if my unsuccessful attempts were due to too small data set, or to my loss function (sum of squared errors).

And then... I saw your post... And discover the existence of Seer engine... For sure, I will read the pytorch training code to try to understand what differs with mine, and why I cannot obtain good results !

n the meanwhile, long life to Minic 3.0 !

[xr_a_y]

Second year anniversary for Minic ! and a new version number 3.00

Porting Stockfish NNUE implementation inside Minic was fun and instructive. This has clearly raised my interest in NN technologies and in this sense is a success.
As you already know, I was never comfortable with the big copy/paste of SF code involved, nor with the use of SF based nets of course.
This is why I first trained a net with my own data (but using Nodchip learner), namely the "napping nexus" net and then merged the learner directly inside Minic in order to train the pure Minic net named "nascent nutrient". Still, this was not enough to make me feel this technology and code can be inside Minic this way and in no way this can be considered as an "official" version of Minic as soon as a NNUE net is in use. This is why I decided to not use SF implementation anymore. This means that, starting from version 3, Minic is no more compatible with SF nets. Only versions 2.47 to 2.53 can read and use SF nets (and only using NNUE version 0x7AF32F16u nets).

In the meantime, I discovered Seer engine by Connor McMonigle (https://github.com/connormcmonigle/seer-nnue), and was very impressed by its code quality. This engine propose a very clear and simple to understand and use NNUE implementation. This implementation allows to very easily change architecture of the net and implements an engine-independent training code using pytorch. I decided to borrow this code base and adapt it to Minic (was very easy). This is a good compromise for me, a code base I can understand and work with, a very good starting point.

I then trained a first net for it, named "nefarious nucleus" (available here : https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/NNUE-Nets) that performs even with standard Minic2.53 eval at short TC (10s+0.1). Maybe better at longer TC...

My hope is of course to train better nets, probably try other architectures and also speed-up the code that is for now quite slow.

Please note that Minic 3.00 with no net loaded is weaker than version 2.53 because it has less nps. So that there is probably no need for testing for now ...

So for now this is a just a new forum thread for a new story

Very interesting release , but following the link to Minic (on github), I don't see version 3.00, but only 2.53 and older.

Indeed I am looking for some more Elo before releasing official version. Unofficial release are available as always as pointed out by Frank.

[carldaman]

Thanks, Frank + Vivien (+ good luck with Minic!)

[Charly]

Salut Vivien,

Félicitations pour Minic 3 !

Je viens de lancer un tournoi de 100 parties en 40/2 contre Arasan 22.1.

Minic 3.0 joue avec Nefarious Nucleus. Joli coup : 41 Td5 !


Event "Test Minic 3.00 Nefarious Nucleus"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2020.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Minic 3.00 & Nefarious Nucleus"]
[Black "Arasan 22.1 x64 bmi2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "3288"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Time "22:36:25"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Adams Attack, 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.h3"]
[WhiteElo "3200"]
[TimeControl "40/120:40/120:40/120"]
[Termination "adjudication"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[WhiteType "program"]
[BlackType "program"]

1. e4 {+0.62/18 2} c5 2. Nf3 {+0.68/17 2} d6 3. d4 {+0.73/18 1} cxd4 4.
Nxd4 {+0.73/18 3} Nf6 5. Nc3 {+0.69/18 2} a6 6. h3 {+0.87/17 1} e5 7. Nf3
{+0.78/17 2} Be6 8. Ng5 {+0.77/19 1} Nc6 9. a3 {+0.53/16 1} b5 {-0.25/23 3}
10. Nxe6 {+0.61/17 2} fxe6 {-0.32/24 2} 11. g4 {+0.62/18 1} h6 {-0.10/23 3}
12. h4 {+0.69/18 1} Be7 {-0.23/23 3} 13. Bg2 {+0.77/18 2} Nd7 {0.00/25 2}
14. Be3 {+0.84/19 3} Qa5 {-0.11/22 3} 15. Kf1 {+0.76/19 3} b4 {0.00/22 3}
16. Ne2 {+1.30/20 2} Nc5 {-0.35/24 10} 17. Kg1 {+1.26/20 3} bxa3 {-0.44/23
3} 18. Rxa3 {+1.06/20 1} Qb5 {-0.40/23 3} 19. Ra2 {+1.49/18 2} a5 {-0.44/21
3} 20. Ng3 {+1.36/18 3} Qc4 {-0.18/24 3} 21. b3 {+1.54/20 2} Qb4 {-0.32/21
4} 22. Ra1 {+1.60/19 2} Rd8 {-0.37/21 4} 23. Bd2 {+1.67/19 3} Qb6 {-0.14/21
4} 24. g5 {+1.50/20 3} Kd7 {-0.28/23 5} 25. Rb1 {+1.69/18 2} Rb8 {-0.69/22
6} 26. Be3 {+1.76/21 3} Nb4 {-0.67/22 3} 27. Bh3 {+2.08/17 2} hxg5
{-0.79/22 4} 28. hxg5 {+1.73/20 2} g6 {-1.02/25 3} 29. Bg2 {+1.99/20 3}
Rxh1+ {-0.28/24 3} 30. Kxh1 {+1.70/18 2} Qc6 {-0.33/26 3} 31. Kg1 {+1.53/19
3} Nca6 {-0.49/22 2} 32. Rc1 {+2.14/23 3} Nc5 {-0.71/25 5} 33. Bf1
{+2.02/20 4} a4 {-0.61/22 2} 34. bxa4 {+1.83/21 3} Nxa4 {-0.64/24 2} 35.
Qf3 {+1.76/21 2} Na2 {-1.00/27 3} 36. Ra1 {+2.16/23 2} Qxc2 {-1.21/24 2}
37. Bh3 {+2.04/22 4} Qb2 {-1.46/22 2} 38. Rf1 {+2.01/22 3} Rf8 {-1.25/24 3}
39. Qg4 {+1.90/25 4} Qb3 {-1.26/26 1} 40. Rd1 {+2.34/25 8} N2c3 {-1.01/19
1} 41. Rd5 {+3.45/24 2} Rf5 {-3.92/26 7} 42. Ra5 {+3.84/24 2} Rf8 {-4.10/26
4} 43. Ra7+ {+4.76/25 2} Kd8 {-4.50/30 5} 44. Qh4 {+5.15/23 1} Nb5
{-4.50/27 2} 45. Ra8+ {+5.20/26 2} Kd7 {-4.53/29 2} 46. Rxf8 {+5.33/24 1}
Bxf8 {-4.46/28 3} 47. Qh7+ {+5.22/25 2} Be7 {-4.49/26 2} 48. Qxg6 {+5.45/22
1} Bxg5 {-4.51/25 2} 49. Qf7+ {+5.32/23 1} Kc6 {-4.54/28 3} 50. Bxg5
{+5.16/24 2} Nc7 {-4.57/29 2} 51. Bd8 {+5.29/22 1} Qb7 {-4.62/29 2} 52.
Bxc7 {+5.31/26 1} Nc5 {-4.07/28 2} 53. Bxe6 {+5.39/27 1} Nxe6 {-4.29/29 3}
54. Qxe6 {+21.37/26 2} Qxc7 {-6.16/28 3} 55. Qc4+ {+23.34/24 0} Kd7
{-6.43/30 3} 56. Qxc7+ {+25.18/35 2} Kxc7 {-13.85/31 6 Adjugé par Arena}
1-0

Si le pgn du tournoi t'intéresse je pourrai te l'envoyer.

Charly

[xr_a_y]

Salut Vivien,

Félicitations pour Minic 3 !

Je viens de lancer un tournoi de 100 parties en 40/2 contre Arasan 22.1.

Minic 3.0 joue avec Nefarious Nucleus. Joli coup : 41 Td5 !


Event "Test Minic 3.00 Nefarious Nucleus"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2020.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Minic 3.00 & Nefarious Nucleus"]
[Black "Arasan 22.1 x64 bmi2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "3288"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Time "22:36:25"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Adams Attack, 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.h3"]
[WhiteElo "3200"]
[TimeControl "40/120:40/120:40/120"]
[Termination "adjudication"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[WhiteType "program"]
[BlackType "program"]

1. e4 {+0.62/18 2} c5 2. Nf3 {+0.68/17 2} d6 3. d4 {+0.73/18 1} cxd4 4.
Nxd4 {+0.73/18 3} Nf6 5. Nc3 {+0.69/18 2} a6 6. h3 {+0.87/17 1} e5 7. Nf3
{+0.78/17 2} Be6 8. Ng5 {+0.77/19 1} Nc6 9. a3 {+0.53/16 1} b5 {-0.25/23 3}
10. Nxe6 {+0.61/17 2} fxe6 {-0.32/24 2} 11. g4 {+0.62/18 1} h6 {-0.10/23 3}
12. h4 {+0.69/18 1} Be7 {-0.23/23 3} 13. Bg2 {+0.77/18 2} Nd7 {0.00/25 2}
14. Be3 {+0.84/19 3} Qa5 {-0.11/22 3} 15. Kf1 {+0.76/19 3} b4 {0.00/22 3}
16. Ne2 {+1.30/20 2} Nc5 {-0.35/24 10} 17. Kg1 {+1.26/20 3} bxa3 {-0.44/23
3} 18. Rxa3 {+1.06/20 1} Qb5 {-0.40/23 3} 19. Ra2 {+1.49/18 2} a5 {-0.44/21
3} 20. Ng3 {+1.36/18 3} Qc4 {-0.18/24 3} 21. b3 {+1.54/20 2} Qb4 {-0.32/21
4} 22. Ra1 {+1.60/19 2} Rd8 {-0.37/21 4} 23. Bd2 {+1.67/19 3} Qb6 {-0.14/21
4} 24. g5 {+1.50/20 3} Kd7 {-0.28/23 5} 25. Rb1 {+1.69/18 2} Rb8 {-0.69/22
6} 26. Be3 {+1.76/21 3} Nb4 {-0.67/22 3} 27. Bh3 {+2.08/17 2} hxg5
{-0.79/22 4} 28. hxg5 {+1.73/20 2} g6 {-1.02/25 3} 29. Bg2 {+1.99/20 3}
Rxh1+ {-0.28/24 3} 30. Kxh1 {+1.70/18 2} Qc6 {-0.33/26 3} 31. Kg1 {+1.53/19
3} Nca6 {-0.49/22 2} 32. Rc1 {+2.14/23 3} Nc5 {-0.71/25 5} 33. Bf1
{+2.02/20 4} a4 {-0.61/22 2} 34. bxa4 {+1.83/21 3} Nxa4 {-0.64/24 2} 35.
Qf3 {+1.76/21 2} Na2 {-1.00/27 3} 36. Ra1 {+2.16/23 2} Qxc2 {-1.21/24 2}
37. Bh3 {+2.04/22 4} Qb2 {-1.46/22 2} 38. Rf1 {+2.01/22 3} Rf8 {-1.25/24 3}
39. Qg4 {+1.90/25 4} Qb3 {-1.26/26 1} 40. Rd1 {+2.34/25 8} N2c3 {-1.01/19
1} 41. Rd5 {+3.45/24 2} Rf5 {-3.92/26 7} 42. Ra5 {+3.84/24 2} Rf8 {-4.10/26
4} 43. Ra7+ {+4.76/25 2} Kd8 {-4.50/30 5} 44. Qh4 {+5.15/23 1} Nb5
{-4.50/27 2} 45. Ra8+ {+5.20/26 2} Kd7 {-4.53/29 2} 46. Rxf8 {+5.33/24 1}
Bxf8 {-4.46/28 3} 47. Qh7+ {+5.22/25 2} Be7 {-4.49/26 2} 48. Qxg6 {+5.45/22
1} Bxg5 {-4.51/25 2} 49. Qf7+ {+5.32/23 1} Kc6 {-4.54/28 3} 50. Bxg5
{+5.16/24 2} Nc7 {-4.57/29 2} 51. Bd8 {+5.29/22 1} Qb7 {-4.62/29 2} 52.
Bxc7 {+5.31/26 1} Nc5 {-4.07/28 2} 53. Bxe6 {+5.39/27 1} Nxe6 {-4.29/29 3}
54. Qxe6 {+21.37/26 2} Qxc7 {-6.16/28 3} 55. Qc4+ {+23.34/24 0} Kd7
{-6.43/30 3} 56. Qxc7+ {+25.18/35 2} Kxc7 {-13.85/31 6 Adjugé par Arena}
1-0

Si le pgn du tournoi t'intéresse je pourrai te l'envoyer.

Charly

Thanks for this tourney. Arasan may be a little strong for Nefarious Nucleus, I m not expecting Minic to survive here . Looking at the given pgn it seems you are not using a book. If that is the case, please not that Minic has no random factor during opening phase so that all the games may look the same. I probably shall do something about that...

[Charly]

Salut Vivien,

Félicitations pour Minic 3 !

Je viens de lancer un tournoi de 100 parties en 40/2 contre Arasan 22.1.

Minic 3.0 joue avec Nefarious Nucleus. Joli coup : 41 Td5 !


Event "Test Minic 3.00 Nefarious Nucleus"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2020.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Minic 3.00 & Nefarious Nucleus"]
[Black "Arasan 22.1 x64 bmi2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "3288"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Time "22:36:25"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Adams Attack, 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.h3"]
[WhiteElo "3200"]
[TimeControl "40/120:40/120:40/120"]
[Termination "adjudication"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[WhiteType "program"]
[BlackType "program"]

1. e4 {+0.62/18 2} c5 2. Nf3 {+0.68/17 2} d6 3. d4 {+0.73/18 1} cxd4 4.
Nxd4 {+0.73/18 3} Nf6 5. Nc3 {+0.69/18 2} a6 6. h3 {+0.87/17 1} e5 7. Nf3
{+0.78/17 2} Be6 8. Ng5 {+0.77/19 1} Nc6 9. a3 {+0.53/16 1} b5 {-0.25/23 3}
10. Nxe6 {+0.61/17 2} fxe6 {-0.32/24 2} 11. g4 {+0.62/18 1} h6 {-0.10/23 3}
12. h4 {+0.69/18 1} Be7 {-0.23/23 3} 13. Bg2 {+0.77/18 2} Nd7 {0.00/25 2}
14. Be3 {+0.84/19 3} Qa5 {-0.11/22 3} 15. Kf1 {+0.76/19 3} b4 {0.00/22 3}
16. Ne2 {+1.30/20 2} Nc5 {-0.35/24 10} 17. Kg1 {+1.26/20 3} bxa3 {-0.44/23
3} 18. Rxa3 {+1.06/20 1} Qb5 {-0.40/23 3} 19. Ra2 {+1.49/18 2} a5 {-0.44/21
3} 20. Ng3 {+1.36/18 3} Qc4 {-0.18/24 3} 21. b3 {+1.54/20 2} Qb4 {-0.32/21
4} 22. Ra1 {+1.60/19 2} Rd8 {-0.37/21 4} 23. Bd2 {+1.67/19 3} Qb6 {-0.14/21
4} 24. g5 {+1.50/20 3} Kd7 {-0.28/23 5} 25. Rb1 {+1.69/18 2} Rb8 {-0.69/22
6} 26. Be3 {+1.76/21 3} Nb4 {-0.67/22 3} 27. Bh3 {+2.08/17 2} hxg5
{-0.79/22 4} 28. hxg5 {+1.73/20 2} g6 {-1.02/25 3} 29. Bg2 {+1.99/20 3}
Rxh1+ {-0.28/24 3} 30. Kxh1 {+1.70/18 2} Qc6 {-0.33/26 3} 31. Kg1 {+1.53/19
3} Nca6 {-0.49/22 2} 32. Rc1 {+2.14/23 3} Nc5 {-0.71/25 5} 33. Bf1
{+2.02/20 4} a4 {-0.61/22 2} 34. bxa4 {+1.83/21 3} Nxa4 {-0.64/24 2} 35.
Qf3 {+1.76/21 2} Na2 {-1.00/27 3} 36. Ra1 {+2.16/23 2} Qxc2 {-1.21/24 2}
37. Bh3 {+2.04/22 4} Qb2 {-1.46/22 2} 38. Rf1 {+2.01/22 3} Rf8 {-1.25/24 3}
39. Qg4 {+1.90/25 4} Qb3 {-1.26/26 1} 40. Rd1 {+2.34/25 8} N2c3 {-1.01/19
1} 41. Rd5 {+3.45/24 2} Rf5 {-3.92/26 7} 42. Ra5 {+3.84/24 2} Rf8 {-4.10/26
4} 43. Ra7+ {+4.76/25 2} Kd8 {-4.50/30 5} 44. Qh4 {+5.15/23 1} Nb5
{-4.50/27 2} 45. Ra8+ {+5.20/26 2} Kd7 {-4.53/29 2} 46. Rxf8 {+5.33/24 1}
Bxf8 {-4.46/28 3} 47. Qh7+ {+5.22/25 2} Be7 {-4.49/26 2} 48. Qxg6 {+5.45/22
1} Bxg5 {-4.51/25 2} 49. Qf7+ {+5.32/23 1} Kc6 {-4.54/28 3} 50. Bxg5
{+5.16/24 2} Nc7 {-4.57/29 2} 51. Bd8 {+5.29/22 1} Qb7 {-4.62/29 2} 52.
Bxc7 {+5.31/26 1} Nc5 {-4.07/28 2} 53. Bxe6 {+5.39/27 1} Nxe6 {-4.29/29 3}
54. Qxe6 {+21.37/26 2} Qxc7 {-6.16/28 3} 55. Qc4+ {+23.34/24 0} Kd7
{-6.43/30 3} 56. Qxc7+ {+25.18/35 2} Kxc7 {-13.85/31 6 Adjugé par Arena}
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Si le pgn du tournoi t'intéresse je pourrai te l'envoyer.

Charly

Thanks for this tourney. Arasan may be a little strong for Nefarious Nucleus, I m not expecting Minic to survive here . Looking at the given pgn it seems you are not using a book. If that is the case, please not that Minic has no random factor during opening phase so that all the games may look the same. I probably shall do something about that...

Hi Vivien,

As you pointed, Arasan was a tough opponent so I started a new tournament against Senpaï 2.0 by Fabien Letouzey, and this time with the same opening book for the 2 engines.

GUI : Arena 3.5.1
CPU/engine : 1
Pondering : off
Time control : 40 moves/2 minutes, repeated
Opening book : HS-classic 10moves 2.0.abk (HS is for Harry Schnapp)
CPU : i7-7700HQ @2.80 GHz
Adjudication : by tablebases or -600 during 5 moves
HT : 512 MB
TB : Nalimov 32 MB

Module Score Mi Se S-B
1: Minic 3.00 & Nefarious Nucleus 53,5/100 ········ 53,5/100 2487,7
2: Senpai 2.0 bmi2-x64 46,5/100 46,5/100 ········ 2487,7

If you want the PGN, feel free to contact me by PM.

Many thanks for your engine Minic !