Stockfish 1.7 win32 compile for ancient cpus

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Re: Stockfish 1.7 win32 compile for ancient cpus

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mcostalba wrote:Also following important options does not appear under Shredder Classic

-Ponder
-OwnBook
-MultiPV

...this is very strange. Someone else experience same behaviour with Shredder Classic ?
That is normal, because those options are set elsewhere in the Shredder GUI. Here I can see the "Threads" option in Shredder 11 with the Mingw compile from Jim:

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Re: Stockfish 1.7 win32 compile for ancient cpus

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If Stockfish has no value for "Threads" because it has not created an UCI option for it and there is no default value, it will surely crash.

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// Set the number of active threads
  int newActiveThreads = get_option_value_int("Threads");
newActiveThreads will be undefined. But how is it possible the GUI apparently does not know it should send a value of this parameter to the engine, if I understand the process right, the Shredder GUI does not seem to know there is an option called "Threads". But I don't know if anything in the Stockfish code was changed that can explain why previous Stockfishes apparently run on James machine, but this one does not. :? Can't figure that one out. Sorry. Anyone else may try to explain now :)

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Re: Stockfish 1.7 win32 compile for ancient cpus

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Jim Ablett wrote:Stockfish 1.7 Win32 Mingw compile
I'm really interested in trying this but all I get is a 404 error. Is it somehow just me?
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Re: Stockfish 1.7 win32 compile for ancient cpus

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Dirt wrote:
Jim Ablett wrote:Stockfish 1.7 Win32 Mingw compile
I'm really interested in trying this but all I get is a 404 error. Is it somehow just me?
Hi Greg,

Included with the new 1.7.1 version now. That link is dead.

Jim.