Author: CLiebert
Date: 10:55:20 12/13/98
THE FRITZ-WINBOARD-REPORT IIIa 12-13-1998 One of the most interesting new functions of the Fritz5.32-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: 12-11-98 , 21504 KB Fritz5.32 Service-Pack1 A discription how to use the winboard-engine you will find on www.chessbase.com. A lot of winboard engines and informations you will find on www.cent.co.yu/chess We checked mainly 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 and ANT. (download adresses below - not checked!) All winboard-engines: no display of the just calculated move (variants) THE FOLLOWING ENGINES ARE WORKING FINE 1. CRAFTY16.01 winboard by R. Hyatt ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt "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 professionals. A first look shows no speed-differences between the Crafty16_1-Engines for winboard and Chessbase (eng-format like fritz, nimzo,...). 2. THE CRAZY BISHOP 0042 Author Rémi Coulom www-leibnitz.imag.fr/~coulom No number of nodes First results (Blitz 5m/K6-II300/Nunn-Games): Crafty 16.1 3-6 Comet A97: 11,5:8,5 3. LITTLE GOLIATH 1.33 CORRECTION !!! by Michael Borgstädt, http://www.cent.co.yu/chess Playing works, but still no analysing and testsuite solving possible. Produces Log-files with 0 KByte (LOG is OFF) It seems that LG belongs to the top-group of the new WB-Fritz-Engines! Michael at www.cent.co.yu/chess: LG supports Fritz mate values now. Hashtables are cleared between moves (Fritz sends "new" after each move). This drops performance significantly. I try to avoid clearing the tables by checking for the "fritz" command and avoiding clearing the hashtables between moves. As LG dont know if "new" starts a new game or initiates only the next move, the hashtables are always filled with informations. - LG accepts the new command "ponder <move>" now. However, it seems that this command is never send by Fritz. But if this option is activated, Fritz shows some strange behavior (e.g. receiving moves like Xxg1xf3 which are never send by LG. A bug report was send to Chessbase. I recommend not to use this option with the above version of Winboard.eng. However, the older version dated 30.11.98 does not support some of the new features, but pondering works well. Log-file can be deactivated now (see GOLIATH.INI file). I recommend this when using LG with Fritz 5.32. Some first results (5m/7m/Game; K6-2-300): LG-Crafty16.01 2,5:4,5 LG-Comet A97 1:3 LG- Crazy B42 3,5:05 Fritz5.16 0,5 :2,5 4. GNUCHESS (1996) www.chessbase.com 5. SEECHESSII 2.01 by S. Slutzky http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/slutzksn/chess.html 6. GROMET 2.0b by Frank Schneider http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank 7. TRISTRAM 4.1.2. James F. Long http://home.fda.net/~wzrdking First 5m-blitz-result: 0,5:5,5 against SSEChess (K6-300) Seems to be nice competitor for humans and blitzgames... 8. CILIAN 4.07 www.cent.co.yu/chess It displays only the first move of the main line, but the Nodes/s and time per s! ENGINES WITH LIMITATIONS 9. 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, if you would like to play against it with 10 to 40s Per move becauce Phalanx doesn´t accept fritz-timesettings. I tried different time-parameters in the command line of the init-file but without success. May be somebody knows working entries for fritz... (CommandLine = -c+) 10. COMET A96 winboard by U. Tuerke, http://www.gambitsoft.com needs a few seconds before starting/displaying infos doesn´t cares about the blitz time take the comet-A97 Engine - there are no problems! 10. OLITHINK 2.2.1 (c) 1998 Oliver Brausch, http://www.phy.uni-bayreuth.de/~btp434/ It works, but still moves in two seconds. It seems that there are no time settings. Testsuite: no display. Analysis works now, but only a few seconds per move 11. ZCHESS by Fank Zibi http://www.worldnet.net/~fzibi/zchess.htm It works, but always moves in a second No additional infos (writes often -0.01 in notation) No permanent brain 12.ARASAN It works (again), but it always moves in a second, it seems that there is no time control??! Analysis and eng-eng ok, Testsuites no. No unloading st. 13. 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, if you would like to play against it with 10 to 40s Per move becauce Phalanx doesn´t allows timesettings in fritz. I tried different time-parameters in command line of the init-file but without success. May be somebody knows working entries for fritz... (CommandLine = -c+) ENGINES WITH PROBLEMS USING FRITZ 14. FORTRESS 14b www.cent.co.yu/chess It always starts playing after the first time you aktivate the engine. Sometimes longer, st. only a few moves?! There seems to be still a problem with the time allocation. It doesn´t response on "move now". And it doesn´t like some time-settings. May be it is only a questions of the the correct entries for the command-line.... Unloading takes a few minutes when you wish to leave it. 15. ANT st. he starts calculating for a few seconds, st. he displays illegal move I still do not manage to get it work - does somebody knows the correct entries for the command-line with fritz?? 16/17. IAMCHOP6.9 and NEW RIVAL I still do not manage to get them work - does somebody knows the correct entries for the command-line with fritz?? SUMMARY Together with 5 Fritz-Engines (5.16, 5.32, 4.01, 3.01, 1.2), 2 Junior, one Hiarcs- and Nimzo-Engine we have so far 19 Engines (minimum!) for our Fritz-Engine-League, not counting several amateur-engine-version (crafty 16.01, 15.20, 15.19,15.18, 14.12, Exchess 2.45/46/51, etc.). Fritz32 works very fine with the following amateur-engines: 1. Crafty wb / CB-Eng 2. The Crazy Bishop 0042 3. Comet A96/97 4. Little Goliath 1.33 may be so far the strongest wb-engines for fritz 5. GNUCHESS 6. Exchess 2.46/2.51 (CB-Engines) 7. SSECHESSII 2.01 8. Gromit 2.0b 9. Tristram 4.1.2 10. Cilian Programmers who would like to discuss details and problems should email to chessbase (see website). If you found mistakes here, if you have new tips, ideas or tricks how to get some engines run please feel free to send me an email. Thank you for your support so far... HAPPY CHRISMAS FROM HAMBURG / GER CHRISTIAN LIEBERT 104047,66@COMPUSERVE.COM 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 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 ****************************************************************************************** Fritz-Engine-Liga K6-II-300 1998 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 ****************
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