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mkchan
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by mkchan » Thu Mar 08, 2018 5:37 pm
I have released Teki 1 after the random mover last time.
It is available here:
https://github.com/Mk-Chan/Teki/releases/latest
It is a basic engine right now with focus on simplicity (hopefully). It should have approximately 2200 strength.
I want to add FRC support ASAP and cover as much of the UCI protocol as I can following that with Threads, EGTB, MultiPV, Pondering, etc. before moving forward with anything else.
Hopefully the windows executables are working fine

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by Guenther » Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:13 pm
mkchan wrote:I have released Teki 1 after the random mover last time.
It is available here:
https://github.com/Mk-Chan/Teki/releases/latest
It is a basic engine right now with focus on simplicity (hopefully). It should have approximately 2200 strength.
I want to add FRC support ASAP and cover as much of the UCI protocol as I can following that with Threads, EGTB, MultiPV, Pondering, etc. before moving forward with anything else.
Hopefully the windows executables are working fine :)
Thanks for this one Manik.
The 64-bit version works here on my no popcount hardware.
Guenther
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LocutusOfPenguin
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by LocutusOfPenguin » Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:17 pm
Hi Manik,
thats great. Thanks.
I like the idea to have a SMALL engine with its basics alot...Mainly cause i wanted to learn how to do chess engines again..I did that 1000 years ago, but im out of business
I know the uci is not ready/finished...but pressing a CR let the engine calc forever (until "stop") when a best move is displayed. Prob. very easy to "fix".
On my linux it works, but i had to change the build.sh line 68 cause i dont have a cmake. Perhaps y can test this (too)?
Looking forward to see more of Teki. Thanks again.
Jürgen
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mkchan
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by mkchan » Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:38 pm
Hi Jurgen,
I made the cmake thing just for flexibility. You can build with the makefile in src/ if you just do
It will produce a simple 64-bit non-static binary. It uses clang by default but you can change it with
I just personally prefer clang. Not looking to min-max the speed in Teki

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mkchan
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by mkchan » Sun Mar 11, 2018 6:23 pm
Just to inform anyone interested, I have relicensed Teki from GPL to MIT.
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by SzG » Sun Mar 11, 2018 6:52 pm
Thanks Manik.
Gabor Szots
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Scally
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by Scally » Sun Mar 11, 2018 9:13 pm
Hi Manik,
It builds fine on the 32bit Linux Raspberry Pi by using the provided Makefile.
Thanks,
Al.
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mkchan
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by mkchan » Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:03 am
Scally wrote:Hi Manik,
It builds fine on the 32bit Linux Raspberry Pi by using the provided Makefile.
Thanks,
Al.
Thanks Al. I have compiled and uploaded a binary from my Raspberry pi too. It should work on Android phones as well (both being ARM) but I've not been able to get it to run on my phone yet.
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by mkchan » Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:50 pm
I think I managed to get the android version working fine. It'd be great if someone could try it out and tell me about it.
I tested it on Droidchess and Chess for Android.
It's available here:
https://github.com/Mk-Chan/Teki/releases/tag/v1.0
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by flok » Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:59 pm
Can't get it to work. Both on an intel pc as well as a raspberry pi:
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Starting program: /data/QueenBee/docs/Teki/src/release/Teki1_linux64
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
uci
id name Teki 1
id author Manik Charan
option name Hash type spin default 1 min 1 max 1048576
uciok
go
info score cp 80 depth 1 nodes 22 time 1 pv b1c3
Thread 1 "Teki1_linux64" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1 0x000000000048dee5 in std::thread::detach() ()
#2 0x000000000040cee6 in handler::go(Position&, std::__cxx11::basic_stringstream<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&) (pos=..., stream=...)
at /data/QueenBee/docs/Teki/src/uci.cpp:248
#3 0x000000000040bfd3 in loop() () at /data/QueenBee/docs/Teki/src/uci.cpp:278
#4 0x00000000004009b5 in main () at /data/QueenBee/docs/Teki/src/main.cpp:44