Comments by catugo

Hello,

This is for any editor.

I tried to write new rules for apothecary chess 1 (now I renamed it modern) and apothecary chess 2 (now I renamed it classic). After I first saved I've seen some errors and reopened the files and then saved again. It seems this has let the saved intertwined as now I see both new text and old text. 

I'm not sure why. Have you any idea what happened?

It was a FF-CC game (could have been reversed). An option to save all games could come in handy!...

I have tried similar experiments for Chess with different armies. It seems the endgame is bad as the computer leaves without reason pieces en prize. Tell me how to help you reproduce this bug. That has probably made results skewed in ENEP games, to!

Final results on the enep experiment. There were 100 games at 1 minute + 3 seconds of added time.

enhanced knight 42

extra pawn 58

from which draws were 48 games

The final batch of games is over:

augmented knight 17

extra pawn 23

with 22 draws

A third batch of 20 games resulted in:

enhanced knight 7.5

extra pawn 12.5

there were 9 draws.

Another batch of 20 games resulted in:

augmented side 8.5

extra pawn side 11.5

with 7 draws.

The bug appeared again. It seems it does not get the time to increment itself or somethig.

The results for enep with time control 1 min and 3 sec/turn, with 20 games played ,are:

Augmented side 9

Extra pawn 11

There were 10 draws

But the program displayed 8-11. For some reason game (victory for the augmented side) 20 did not get counted. A small bug in here Greg. Also if I may a suggestion it would be nice if in the output file the final score is written at the end!...

It works. Many thanks Greg!

Thanks a lot. What I don't understand how many repeats will there be? Does it involve copy pasting the two lines over and over again?

I have whatched a few games today, engine vs engine mode, and chessV2.2 is definetly a marvel. Extremelly fun! Big congratilations!

I want to try batch mode on Enep to find out which side is better. I'd bet on the side with the extra pawn based on the few games I watched with ChessV 1, but who knows. For that I'm asked for a control file. How do I write one?

Ah, I forgot this detail. They don't all have the same castling rules :(!

@Kevin Pacey

I have noticed the new version (maybe from before) Hannibal Chess & Frog Chess are present but not Waffle Chess.

I have created a script, which is quite easy. If you are curious to adding it into your copy of chessV2.2 there you go:

Game 'Waffle Chess' : 'Generic 10x8'
{
Invented = "2017";
InventedBy = "Kevin Pacey";
Symmetry = MirrorSymmetry;

SetGameVariables
{
Array = "rnbwqkwbnr/pppppppppp/10/10/10/10/PPPPPPPPPP/RNBWQKWBNR";
Castling = "Standard";
PawnDoubleMove = true;
EnPassant = true;
PromotionTypes = "QRBNW";
}

AddPieceTypes
{
AddChessPieceTypes();
AddPieceType( Phoenix, "Waffle", "W", 285, 285 );
}
}

Well I actually don't know the invention year :)!

@Greg

I'm quite sure I did not made myself clear earlier, so the question was: How would setting up winboard play by 2 ChessV engines, one with small variation anoter with medium work :)? Thaks!...

I have found it Greg!... No trouble! But how do I put things together now?

@Greg

Where do I download winboard?

It would be interesting to compare the small and medium variations of play. Greg has told me that it is not possible internally. But I think winboard can accept two *.exe files. It would not care that it is the same engine with diffret parameters. Is that corect?