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In the queue right now in FRC

I use 256mb, and I already did a test about it that 256mb performs well than 128 and 512 in our time control 2+1 or 40/2

Ray wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:42 pm In terms of GUIs, if you want to use concurrency, then I think you just have three choices - CuteChess cli or GUI, or Banksia.

This is the only GUI I use

Here are the opening books I use - https://www.mediafire.com/file/tlsm304h ... k.zip/file

No, my implementation for castling has the king always move 2 spaces, which is different to how FRC castling works. The only lichess variant it can play is Horde, but the support for different board sizes is unique as far as I am aware (even the large boards version of fairy-stockfish is limited to...

Does it play FRC?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KWIlXYvEnACeFc4XP3N63pyBSHCG4RqVSCAH22QR1l0/edit?pli=1#gid=288902851 Guenther's spreadsheet lists the date of each engine's last release. This could be helpful in determining which engines are HCE. With more recent engines, most are on github and will tell wh...

cutechess GUI is the best for frc

Witek902 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:35 am

bastiball wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:01 pm

Witek902 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:38 pm Caissa 1.17 has been released!
https://github.com/Witek902/Caissa/releases/tag/1.17
Around +20 Elo on UHO book

Strong in FRC

Stronger than Eth?

Just wait the update in FRC

Witek902 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:38 pm Caissa 1.17 has been released!
https://github.com/Witek902/Caissa/releases/tag/1.17
Around +20 Elo on UHO book

Strong in FRC

Version 2.0 of Tcheran was released yesterday with a variety of standard search pruning techniques: In short time controls, there's a ~244 Elo increase in self-play. ELO | 244.1 +/- 11.4 CONF | 8+0.08 Threads=1 Hash=128MB GAMES | N: 4096 W: 2942 L: 460 D: 694 In longer time controls, a slightly big...

Congrats for the release! It will be on queue

Witek902 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 9:13 am Caissa 1.13 has been released!
https://github.com/Witek902/Caissa/releases/tag/1.13

HI, I think, there's bug in FRC, Can you please check it?
https://www.mediafire.com/file/c7yeox3h ... a.pgn/file

Witek902 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 11:51 pm Caissa 1.11 has been released:
https://github.com/Witek902/Caissa/releases/tag/1.11

https://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4 ... aissa_1_11

I'm happy to announce the release of Orion 0.9, a new version of my little chess engine with : - support for SMP ; - a 24x smaller neural network ; - speed improvement and memory consumption reduction ; - correction of a small bug in 3-pieces endgame evaluation. More information (and important note...

Witek902 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 11:51 pm Caissa 1.11 has been released:
https://github.com/Witek902/Caissa/releases/tag/1.11

Thanks for the new version!

Try run some tournament with a handicap

BayesElo ratings, default parameters: Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws 1 Stockfish 20230531 157 20 19 780 76% -12 47% 2 Komodo Dragon 3.2 120 19 19 780 70% -9 50% 3 Berserk 11.1 70 18 18 780 62% -5 53% 4 Ethereal 14.00 35 18 18 780 56% -3 54% 5 RubiChess 20230410 17 18 18 780 53% -1 54% 6 ...

mhonert wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 12:35 pm Hi everyone,

today I released Velvet v5.2.0:
https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess ... tag/v5.2.0

Estimated strength increase is around 40 Elo in standard chess and 60 Elo in FRC.
Details can be found in the release notes.

Best regards
Martin

Thanks!

Hi all, First of all, congratulations on the 100th Amateur Series! Thank you for voluntarily doing this. CCRL team, you all are amazing. I just got back from school to coding for a bit... So I'm here to release v1.4.0 for the 100th amateur series, I guess. v1.4.0 is around 3131 elo, but can be anyw...

Caissa 1.7 has been released: https://github.com/Witek902/Caissa/releases/tag/1.7 Around 40-80 Elo gain compared to 1.6.3 (depending on time control) in selfplay games. FRC gauntlet running https://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404FRC/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Cai...

Witek902 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:54 am Caissa 1.7 has been released:
https://github.com/Witek902/Caissa/releases/tag/1.7

Around 40-80 Elo gain compared to 1.6.3 (depending on time control) in selfplay games.

FRC gauntlet running