New UCI engine: ChessMind

[metax]

I recall being able to test at ultrafast time controls like that in Shredder, which version are you using?

I am using Shredder Classic 3 and you can only specify hours, minutes and increment there. No seconds...

And don't even bother with Arena for fast games, it makes any engine look like it has bad time management .

lol

[Aser Huerga]

Hello Luca,

if you suggest values for UCI options I'll be happy to test ChessMind for CCRL 40/4

Regards.

[Milos]

WinBoard does... Just enter 0:30 in the minutes field.

Or set a time-odds factor. With time-odds factor of 100 you can specify centi-seconds!

How do you set up time-odds in tournament?
For example you want 0sec+0.1sec TC, how do you do that?

[hgm]

Run with the options /firstTimeOdds=10 /secondTimeOdds=10 /tc=0 /inc=1 .

Not surse TC=0 makes sense, though. You get the increment added after your move, so you would have to make the first move in 0 sec. So perhaps it would be better to set /tc=0:01. The time-odds then divides all times by 10.

[Aser Huerga]

Hello Luca,

if you suggest values for UCI options I'll be happy to test ChessMind for CCRL 40/4

Regards.

Well, I started the test with default values, let's see how the new ChessMind 0.80 performs!

[metax]

Hello Luca,

if you suggest values for UCI options I'll be happy to test ChessMind for CCRL 40/4

Regards.

Well, I started the test with default values, let's see how the new ChessMind 0.80 performs!

Default values are OK dor now, otherwise they would not be default
The problem is that these values are not tuned, so I wrote that anyone who wants to play around with the engine a bit could modify the option values to see if there are better combinations.

[Matthias Gemuh]

Run with the options /firstTimeOdds=10 /secondTimeOdds=10 /tc=0 /inc=1 .

Not surse TC=0 makes sense, though. You get the increment added after your move, so you would have to make the first move in 0 sec. So perhaps it would be better to set /tc=0:01. The time-odds then divides all times by 10.

I hope all engine authors are aware of this important fact.

Matthias.

[alpha123]

I recall being able to test at ultrafast time controls like that in Shredder, which version are you using?

I am using Shredder Classic 3 and you can only specify hours, minutes and increment there. No seconds...

And don't even bother with Arena for fast games, it makes any engine look like it has bad time management .

lol

Shredder 12 GUI (which I think is Shredder Classic 4) has seconds, I think.

Maybe WinBoard or ChessGUI then.

Peter

[Jim Ablett]

Jim.

[Milos]

Run with the options /firstTimeOdds=10 /secondTimeOdds=10 /tc=0 /inc=1 .

Not surse TC=0 makes sense, though. You get the increment added after your move, so you would have to make the first move in 0 sec. So perhaps it would be better to set /tc=0:01. The time-odds then divides all times by 10.

Thanks. I thought increment comes before the move. Like this is more logical.