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Happy to share - these games will never help my chess much anyway. Since the 1st try is now successful, I'll upload some more games I have. You've already got all the EGTB's I have, so I can't help there. But I'll check out the rest.

Cheers,

Chuck

OK. Coffee must've been good. I've uploaded one file to Incoming Games folder - into a subfolder. It is the ICCF record of ICCF correspondence games that finished in 2005, most games have at least one ICCF player rated 2400+. 1292 games total. If it's good I'll post some others.

Cheers,

Chuck

Norm,

I was trying to upload some pgn to your site but the xfer kept error-ing out. Couldn't tell from the ftp codes exactly why, it just aborted. I was using CoreFTP. Maybe permissions (?), I used your chess login so maybe not. Time is just prior to this post.

Cheers,

Chuck

Looks interesting, but I don't see any special reason to pay for it given the engine market. I'll give it a try anyway.

Cheers,

Chuck

Final results over 30 rounds are: Greko Gauntlet 2007 GreKo 5.1 - Gibbon 2.01b 26.0 - 4.0 GreKo 5.1 - BamBam 26.0 - 4.0 GreKo 5.1 - FireFly v2.1.3 23.0 - 7.0 GreKo 5.1 - Wing 2.0a 19.5 - 10.5 GreKo 5.1 - LittleThought v0.97 19.0 - 11.0 GreKo 5.1 - Atlas 2.20 14.5 - 15.5 GreKo 5.1 - Popochin 2.7 17.5...

In the Ring: Greko 5.1 A new Blitz gauntlet has been started featuring the new-to-CCRL Greko 5.1 by Vladimir Medvedev of Russia. Greko seems to be a well-featured and stable UCI engine, qualities that make it fun to play. It's listed as also supporting Winboard, though I'll be running it under the ...

Hi Norm, I wonder what type of ftp software are you using? Depending on your OS, there are several things you can do to lock the doors. Nothing is 100%, but you can stop most unwanted hits. Most important is having firewall and anti-virus software, and not keeping sensitive info on your server. By t...

Did you see Seirawan's comments on game 1? Very interesting about move 25-30. Gives some insight on what is very difficult to see these days - what the top comps can't see.

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3508

Cheers,

Chuck

You mention some good points, Ray. I think without analysis of the source code it is difficult to tell exactly how much memory is being used for hash tables. As a tester, you just have to set the target figure as best you can - unless something is specified in the program's documentation, it's prett...

Uri, This is all good information. Once we get some more games on the list for the latest version I'd like to start testing your beta as well. Can you add to what you've already given us by saying what was the first version with UCI support? I prefer to run engines in UCI mode if available because i...

Uri's advice worked great, so I must thank him for that. I've completed the match between Movei and Amateur and already posted it (it was 30 games at 40/4 - blitz). Movei did win 18.5-11.5. More games are sure to follow.

Cheers,

Chuck

Thanks Uri, I'll try these settings. I'll run the test with 128 MB Hash and we'll see what happens.

Cheers,

Chuck Wilson

Hello! I know Uri mentioned that he is not so concerned with hash table settings but I would like to test his engine evenly against others. I'm currently trying to run Movei 0.08.295 but it only loads 1 MB hash tables. I tried editing the Movei changes file, which only has one setting for loghash, b...