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Post by matejst on Oct 31, 2022 9:23:43 GMT
There seems to be some new, interesting engines.
Devre, with a net based on Lc0 data. The engine is slow, but the eval looks fine. Buggy, btw, or something like this.
Winter was very interesting a few years ago (probably the first one to use an original NN), a new iteration has been published, with the useless FRC option.
Minic seems OK too. Better on faster PCs, with good results at TCEC. Has all the functionalities one would expect. No levels, though.
Caissa has an endgame net, and looks fine too. BTW, I saw several engines promoting to rooks instead of queens, and Rebel was unable to win after such a promotion the elementary K, R, N vs K, N ending.
The new Berserk seems buggy, with awful time management. I used the generic compile, it could be different for newer PCs.
Koivisto has improved a lot, but is still only for eng-eng tournaments, just like Seer.
Anyway, most of the new engines lack functionalities like multiPV, levels, etc. and can be used mostly only for engine tournaments. Minic and Berserk are the exception. These engines could remain private as I see it. Jonathan Rosenthal had a version of Winter playing the King's gambit. Instead of implementing multipv, UCI_limit_strength and releasing such an interesting engine, he destroyed his style and made just another engine, without functionalities. Not sure I understand this.
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Post by Ozymandias on Nov 3, 2022 6:53:12 GMT
"useless FRC option", now don't tell Larry about that. You remind me of myself 16 years ago, when I was looking at engines for the first time in ages, and downloading, testing almost anything.  |
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Post by matejst on Nov 3, 2022 16:26:26 GMT
"useless FRC option", now don't tell Larry about that. You remind me of myself 16 years ago, when I was looking at engines for the first time in ages, and downloading, testing almost anything. Lately I use Minic. And, my bad, Minic has levels. Big net, a bit slow, but good overall. The rest, I try them to see if they can be useful, and most of the time I reject them. Here are the engines I have already installed in Aquarium: Minic, Rebel, Wasp, Lc0 and Rhetoric. I delete the others after a short test.
In fact, I am much more interested in GUIs, databases. I have a lot of superfluous, especially old ones: CIE (useless), Fritz 5 (useless), CB 7.0 (useless), Shredder Classic (mostly useless, although I like it a lot). Unfortunately, lately there are no new, good GUIs. I have tried BSG, but, although I have seen lots of pieces of software, it doesn't work for me. Wrong options. Little, nasty bugs. I don't know. Arena is so ugly. After all these years, I still think that the following GUIs were the best:
-- Rebel (from R10) with some tweaking, -- Fritz 7 (with UCI), -- Nimzo 3.5 (although I discovered it many years too late), -- Tascbase 2.1 (difficult to handle under Windows, today).
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Post by Ozymandias on Nov 3, 2022 16:51:49 GMT
BSG is nice, but it reloads engines before every match, which makes it mostly useless for running matches and for analysis is even worse.
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