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dchoman wrote:Hi Everyone,

I just put the sources for EXchess v6.10 up on my website...

http://personal.denison.edu/~homand/EXchess.htm

It has a number of minor improvements over v6.02 in king safety, some piece and mobility value optimization via CLOP, and a few minor search improvements.

I also revised the 'default' score values in the source code to match the score.par values which have been learned and hand optimized over a long period of time... this way, if score.par is deleted by accident a new version with the 'best' values will be automatically created.

- Dan

Thx Dan!

Here's my compile for Mac users:
http://julien.marcel.free.fr/macchess/E ... source.zip

Got Exchess working under Windows now.

I switched back from Mingw (4.7.0) to Mingw (4.6.1).
Go figure.

Jim.

JA compiles are out now at the usual place.

Windows/Linux/Android 32/64

Jim.

Jim Ablett wrote:JA compiles are out now at the usual place.

Windows/Linux/Android 32/64

Jim.

Thanks, Jim! Sorry for the trouble with the mingw compile.... not sure what the issue could be.

- Dan

JuLieN wrote:

dchoman wrote:Hi Everyone,

I just put the sources for EXchess v6.10 up on my website...

http://personal.denison.edu/~homand/EXchess.htm

It has a number of minor improvements over v6.02 in king safety, some piece and mobility value optimization via CLOP, and a few minor search improvements.

I also revised the 'default' score values in the source code to match the score.par values which have been learned and hand optimized over a long period of time... this way, if score.par is deleted by accident a new version with the 'best' values will be automatically created.

- Dan

Thx Dan!

Here's my compile for Mac users:
http://julien.marcel.free.fr/macchess/E ... source.zip

Thanks!

Jim Ablett wrote:JA compiles are out now at the usual place.

Windows/Linux/Android 32/64

Jim.

Thanks Jim.

Graham Banks wrote:

Jim Ablett wrote:JA compiles are out now at the usual place.

Windows/Linux/Android 32/64

Jim.

Thanks Jim.

+1

I'm having some problems with all versions of EXchess in Arena 2.0.1. (EXchess JA builds.) Regardless of what I try, I can't seem to get it to use the Nalimov TBs. Also, in analysis mode, it just seems to constantly cycle in plies from 1 to the low 20s, back to 1, etc.

Also, when I install the engine, it seems to want to add "xb hash 32" as a command line option. Should the engine be running in xboard mode? (After install. it shows as a Winboard-2 protocol engine.)

Also, the hash values displayed in Arena are a little smaller than the actual hash settings in search.par.

Has anyone been successful in using the TBs in Arena with this engine? Any help appreciated.

Jimbo I wrote:I'm having some problems with all versions of EXchess in Arena 2.0.1. (EXchess JA builds.) Regardless of what I try, I can't seem to get it to use the Nalimov TBs. Also, in analysis mode, it just seems to constantly cycle in plies from 1 to the low 20s, back to 1, etc.

Also, when I install the engine, it seems to want to add "xb hash 32" as a command line option. Should the engine be running in xboard mode? (After install. it shows as a Winboard-2 protocol engine.)

Also, the hash values displayed in Arena are a little smaller than the actual hash settings in search.par.

Has anyone been successful in using the TBs in Arena with this engine? Any help appreciated.

Hi James,

I didn't compile with tablebase support. It is off by default in the src.
I'll post some links here later to builds with tablebase support.

Jim.

Jim Ablett wrote:

Jimbo I wrote:I'm having some problems with all versions of EXchess in Arena 2.0.1. (EXchess JA builds.) Regardless of what I try, I can't seem to get it to use the Nalimov TBs. Also, in analysis mode, it just seems to constantly cycle in plies from 1 to the low 20s, back to 1, etc.

Also, when I install the engine, it seems to want to add "xb hash 32" as a command line option. Should the engine be running in xboard mode? (After install. it shows as a Winboard-2 protocol engine.)

Also, the hash values displayed in Arena are a little smaller than the actual hash settings in search.par.

Has anyone been successful in using the TBs in Arena with this engine? Any help appreciated.

Hi James,

I didn't compile with tablebase support. It is off by default in the src.
I'll post some links here later to builds with tablebase support.

Jim.

Hi Jim,
No hurry, I just thought I was doing something wrong. Thanks.

James