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Schoolbook. 8x10 chess with the rook + knight and bishop + knight pieces added. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Sep 26, 2009 09:04 PM UTC:

There is a new version (4.4.0) obtainable from WinBoard forum:

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=50387

This new version supports the -noGUI option, which supresses updating of board and clocks completely. The Animate Moving checkbox should be in the Options -> General... dialog. I guess I misremembered a little; I looked it up and Joker80 was playing 15 sec/game against 24 min/game for ArcBishop. But at that speed (which should be equivalent to 40 moves / 10 sec, as the average 10x8 blitz game takes about 60 moves), it was able to win games without forfeiting on time. This was on a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo.

Since we want self-play with absolutely equal engines, it should also be possible to make a version of the engine that does this without GUI. ChessV has such an option to play itself. Both sides would use the same hash table, which is equivalent to having a ponder-on tournament with 100% guarantee for a ponder hit, but only using a single CPU! The first 30 moves of each game could then be saved together with the result in binary format, to build a book from it later.