Author: CLiebert
Date: 14:11:37 12/07/98
THE FRITZ-WINBOARD-REPORT, 2. UPDATE 12-07-1998 One of the most interesting new functions of the new Fritz5 GUI is the support of winboard-engines. That means, that every winboard engine should work with fritz. On principle – lets have a look how it works in practice. The testet version is still the latest beta - like our first tests results. Used Winboard-beta engine: 12-04-98 , 20480 KB A discription how to use the winboard-engine you will find at www.chessbase.com. A lot of winboard programms and informations you will find at www.cent.co.yu/chess We checked the following functions 1. Human-Engine-Play 2. Analyse-Mode 3. Engine-Engine-Play 4. Tournament-Play 5. Testsuite solving 6. Infodisplay The winboard-engines we have tried so far are : The Crazy Bishop, GNUCHESS, Crafty (WB), Tristram, SSECHESS II, Little Goliath, IamChop, Phalanx, Fortress, Olithink, Arasan, Gromet, Comet (WB), Cilian, Zchess, NewRival (download adresses below – not checked!) All winboard-engines: no display of the just calculated move (variants) ENGINES WITHOUT PROBLEMS 1. THE CRAZY BISHOP 0042 Author Rémi Coulom www-leibnitz.imag.fr/~coulom Everything works fine, but no number of nodes First results (Blitz 5m/K6-II300/Nunn-Games): Crafty 16.1 3-6 Comet A97: 11,5:8,5 2. GNUCHESS www.chessbase.com Everything works fine, 3. SEECHESSII 2.01 Everything works fine, 4. CRAFTY16.01 winboard by R. Hyatt ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt Everything works fine, „CommandLine = stop log“ stops the increasing number of log files in the crafty-directory btw: in blitzgames 16.01 performs better than 15.18, but still cant perform with the professinals. A first look shows no speed-differences between the Crafty16_1-Engines for winboard and Chessbase (eng-format like fritz, nimzo,...). 5. GROMET 2.0b by Frank Schneider http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank Everything works fine 6. COMET A96 winboard by U. Tuerke, http://www.gambitsoft.com Everything works fine 7. TRISTRAM 4.1.2. James F. Long http://home.fda.net/~wzrdking Everything works fine First 5m-blitz-result: 0,5:5,5 against SSEChess (K6-300) Seems to be nice competitor for humans and blitzgames... ENGINES WITH LIMITATIONS 8. PHALANX XIX Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Dusan Dobes - ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/strategy/ - ftp://ftp.math.muni.cz/pub/math/people/Dobes/ Everything works fine, but Phalanx doesn´t cares very much about the time. It seems to me that it always plays after 10 to 40s (PLY 7-8), even with 120min/40moves??? It seems that it gets the time via parameter setting ... May be somebody knows the correct entries for the command-line with fritz... (CommandLine = -c+ or nothing) 9. OLITHINK 2.1.5 (c) 1998 Oliver Brausch, btp434@theo.phy.uni-bayreuth.de It works, but he always moves in two seconds Testsuite: no display, No analysis, st. crashes 10. ZCHESS by Fank Zibi http://www.worldnet.net/~fzibi/zchess.htm It works, but always moves in a second No additional infos (writes always –0.01 in notation) No permanent brain ENGINES WITH BIGGER PROBLEMS 11.ARASAN It doesn´t work anymore, I don t know why... Earlier remarks: For After editing the ini-file (see readme.txt) it works, but he always moves in a second. CB: It seems that Arasan offers no time control??! No analysis, no eng-eng, Testsuites yes but without displaying moves, 12. IAMCHOP6.9, 13. LITTLE GOLIATH, 14. CILIAN 15. NEW RIVAL I still do not manage to get them work - does somebody knows the correct entries for the command-line with fritz?? 16. FORTRESS 14b Sometimes it works and starts calculating– but it never moves... No unloading, newstart necessary Does somebody knows the correct entries for the command-line?? SUMMARY The playing of fritz32 with a lot of different engines shows that it works on principle and that cb really did a good job. If you don´t like loosing against Fritz, Junior, Nimzo and Hiarcs anymore, Fritz32 works fine with the following amateur-engines (minimum!) 1. The Crazy Bishop 2. GNUCHESS 3. Crafty wb or CB-Engines 4. SSECHESSII 2.01 5. Phalanx 19 6. Exchess 2.46/2.51 (CB-Engines) 7. Tristram 4.1.2 8. Comet A96/97 wb or CB-Engines Programmers who would like to discuss details and problems should email to chessbase (see website). If you have new tips, ideas and tricks how to get some engines run please feel free to send me an email. Thank you for your support so far... For german readers: A full report with the latest experiences we will publish in www.computerschach.de (starting 1.1.99) and in COMPUTER&SCHACH UND SPIELE WITH KIND REGARDS CHRISTIAN LIEBERT 104047,66@COMPUSERVE.COM Finally some test results: (statistically not relevant!) Tournament, 3m/Blitz K6-300 1 2 3 4 5 1 Crafty 16.1 ** 10 11 11 11 7.0/8 2 Comet A97 01 ** 1½ 1½ 11 6.0/8 3 The Crazy B. 00 0½ ** 01 11 3.5/8 4 Gnuchess 00 0½ 10 ** 10 2.5/8 5 Gromit2 00 00 00 01 ** 1.0/8 Tournament, 3m/Blitz K6-300 1 Crafty 16.1 6.0/8 2 Fritz 4.01 5.5/8 3 Crafty 15.18 4.5/8 4 Comet A97 3.0/7 5 EXchess 2.51 0.0/7 Tournament, 3m/Blitz K6-300 1 gnuchess 5.5/9 22.25 2 Comet A97 5.5/9 20.25 3 EXchess 2.51 5.5/9 18.25 4 ssechess 1.5/9 5m/Blitz K6-300 SSEchess – TRISTRAM 5,5-0,5 ****************************************************** Tournament, 7m/Blitz K6-300 1. FEL 1998 (1. Fritz-Engine-League) 7 Rounds, / Engines, 7 Minuten Blitz, 147 games (general book) 1 Fritz 5.32 29.5/42 2 Fritz 5.00 29.0/42 3 Junior 5.0 27.0/42 4 Hiarcs 6.0/16Bit 17.5/42 5 Junior 4.6/16Bit 17.0/42 6 Nimzo '99 14.5/42 7 Crafty 16.1 12.5/42 Tournament, 7m/Blitz K6-300 2. FEL 1998 (2. Fritz-Engine-League) 7 Rounds, / 5 Engines, 7 Minuten Blitz (general book) 1 Fritz 4.01 18.0/28 2 Nimzo '99 17.0/28 3 Crafty 16.1 16.5/28 4 Comet A97 11.0/28 5 Crafty 15.18 7.5/28 ******************************************************************************** 2. FEL 1998 1 2 3 4 5 1 Fritz 4.01 ******* ½½001½1 01½0011 1½0½11½ 11½1111 18.0/28 2 Nimzo '99 ½½110½0 ******* 1½10011 111010½ 11½1010 17.0/28 3 Crafty 16.1 10½1100 0½01100 ******* ½1½½101 ½11111½ 16.5/28 4 Comet A97 0½1½00½ 000101½ ½0½½010 ******* 010½1½½ 11.0/28 5 Crafty 15.18 00½0000 00½0101 ½00000½ 101½0½½ ******* 7.5/28
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