vajolet 2.03 release

[elcabesa]

A new version of Vajolet has been released today with a totally new Eval function.
It can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/vajolet2/downl ... z&can=2&q=

It should be considerable stronger than vajolet 1.62.1, I don't know how many elo point. Only tournaments will tell us how much.

Many thank to everyone who inspired my work, to the excellent courcecode of the open source engined I studied and to the comment i read on this forum.


this is very small changeLog:
-totally new evalutation
-lots of debug
-modified search function
-better hashtable code
-delayed move generation
-see debug

[Graham Banks]

A new version of Vajolet has been released today with a totally new Eval function.
It can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/vajolet2/downl ... z&can=2&q=

It should be considerable stronger than vajolet 1.62.1........

Thanks Marco.

[elcabesa]

thank you for the beautiful tournaments you held

[geots]

A new version of Vajolet has been released today with a totally new Eval function.
It can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/vajolet2/downl ... z&can=2&q=

It should be considerable stronger than vajolet 1.62.1, I don't know how many elo point. Only tournaments will tell us how much.

Many thank to everyone who inspired my work, to the excellent courcecode of the open source engined I studied and to the comment i read on this forum.


this is very small changeLog:
-totally new evalutation
-lots of debug
-modified search function
-better hashtable code
-delayed move generation
-see debug

Earlier today I used the adapters and installed the WB engine Tucano into Fritz 11 and Fritz 13 gui. Very stable during install as well as play. I just don't understand- then I come up on vajolet which is a UCI engine and I cannot get it to load in either Fritz gui. And these are guis especially for UCI engines.

When I see it won't install- I already know what it is going to say when I go back and try to run the exe. It says I am missing a dll file that I need in my system. Well me and this dll have done everything but take guns and shoot at each other in the past. Actually the dll is located in 3 different places in my system. I even out of sheer frustration have copied and pasted one in the past- put it in the engine folder and butted it up against the exe. Then run the exe and it says I need the dll that is 1/32 of an inch from it.

I have been loading UCI engines over a dozen years- and this dll issue never once came up before 2012. I don't know about you, but I know that many of these programmers with newer engines tried to get too fancy instead of just releasing an engine. And it doesn't matter how many say it works for them and they have no problem- I can promise you they are not loading it into a chessbase gui, using Windows 7, and either the newest generation of Intel i-5s or Intel i-7s.

I will tell you what I told a dear friend, Velmarin, when he released a version of Bouquet that had the same problem. I told him to get me something that would work without asking for this damn dll, and I needed it 24 hours ago. He said oh,ok- I'm very sorry. And to his credit, in less than an hour he had it taken care of- and I had a version that would work. So obviously it is not brain surgery.

I have everything a UCI engine could possibly need- every update and updates past that update. I will just be honest- and I mean no malice- but the truth is if it is UCI, all I get is an exe, and with the hardware and software I have that I mentioned above- if it won't load into a chessbase gui- the problem is on your end- not mine. Because I don't think it is any coincidence that you don't run into this with any of the top 50 UCI engines in the world- probably not the top 100.

I apologize for the frustration, but I am just sick of this. I started to just trash the engine folder and the zip and say the hell with it. Then I thought better, and decided I would give you the opportunity to make it right and fix this problem. Which I hope you will do- it seems like a very nice engine with potential.



All the best to you,

george

[elcabesa]

thank you for this very warm welcome

I think the problem is related to visual studio 2012 installation, I have tried to install the program on an older PC and I have the same problem, but it could be solved downloading this file from microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/it-it/download ... x?id=30679.
If you could not afford to install this file I could try to make another build with the older compilator.

Thank you and best regards, Marco Belli

[cetormenter]

It should be considerable stronger than vajolet 1.62.1, I don't know how many elo point. Only tournaments will tell us how much.

It seems to be VERY considerable. I ran a bunch of 1 minute games last night and the results are very good. This biggest change that I saw was in the time to depth for the engine. When the new and the old version were playing head to head the new version was reaching 3-4 ply deeper.

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Rank Name               Elo    +    - games score oppo. draws 
   1 Vajolet-2.03       262   52   52   255   88%   -87   12% 
   2 Nirvanachess 1.1    23   41   41   255   54%    -8   18% 
   3 Vajolet-1.62.1    -124   43   43   255   32%    41   15% 
   4 Nirvanachess 1.0  -160   43   43   255   26%    53   16% 

[Modern Times]

George, I tried it on my Windows 8 machine, same problem about the missing dll. It seems to be quite a common problem thee days, you are assumed to have the relevant Microsoft package installed

[Modern Times]

thank you for this very warm welcome

I think the problem is related to visual studio 2012 installation, I have tried to install the program on an older PC and I have the same problem, but it could be solved downloading this file from microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/it-it/download ... x?id=30679.
If you could not afford to install this file I could try to make another build with the older compilator.

Thank you and best regards, Marco Belli

Yes this solves the problem (for me anyway)

[elcabesa]

I'll try comiling an older release too, I hope it could help

[tpetzke]

Hi,

glad seeing you making progress

Thomas...