in-trier web pages down/wondering about Exchess

[Pete Galati]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Pete Galati at 05 May 2000 05:20:40:
I was starting to look at the new Exchess program, and I keep trying to get at Frank's overview pages, but they have not worked for a while now.
Exchess no longer seems to need commandline parameters for setting it's hashtables, that seems to be covered in the search.par file now. According to Dan Homan's txt file if you have a recent version of Winboard, all you need is "Exchess". I think I had something in there like "xb"? you don't seem to need that anymore if I'm reading the file correctly.
Dan pointed out at CCC that the dll file is no longer needed because he compiled with Borland now. If I recall corectly I was haveing trouble pasting epd positions into Exchess before with the previous versions, now I'm not having that trouble. just a note about pasting epd files into the "text-mode" of Exchess, first enter the "setboard" comand, then a space, then click on the little clipboard icon on the top of the Dos box (after you've coppied the epd to the clipboard of coarse) and then hit Enter.
But you don't want to include the extra info that gets included when Winboard saves an epd position, for example, this position:
rnbq1rk1/pp2ppbp/6p1/8/4N3/1R1BPN2/P5PP/3Q1RK1 b - - 0 13
just leave the " 0 13" off the end, because Exchess will think that those are errors. It probably won't interfere if you put them in though.
So,
Setboard rnbq1rk1/pp2ppbp/6p1/8/4N3/1R1BPN2/P5PP/3Q1RK1 b - - (enter)
would get the position into Exchess, & you could use Exchess' "analyze" command to give similer results to Crafty's analyze, then like Crafty, use "exit" to stop the analysis. The search results will show up in Exchess' log file if you have that turned on.
Pete

[Frank Quisinsky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 05 May 2000 06:32:57:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: in-trier web pages down/wondering about Exchess geschrieben von: / posted by: Pete Galati at 05 May 2000 05:20:40:
Hi Pete,

I was starting to look at the new Exchess program, and I keep trying to get at Frank's overview pages, but they have not worked for a while now.

At the moment I have a lot of problems ...
01) I can not start my webpages, I hope not the virus problem !
Yesterday my pages are very slow and now I can not start my sites more than
12 hours !

02) I have big problems with my computer. Crashes in WinBoard or Fritz matches
after 1 hour ! I can not find a mistake in my system, last month I have the
same mistake. I think my RAM or my processor is defect !
Regards
Frank

[Pete Galati]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Pete Galati at 05 May 2000 08:13:34:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Virus or Provider problem ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 05 May 2000 06:32:57:

Hi Pete,

I was starting to look at the new Exchess program, and I keep trying to get at Frank's overview pages, but they have not worked for a while now.

At the moment I have a lot of problems ...
01) I can not start my webpages, I hope not the virus problem !
Yesterday my pages are very slow and now I can not start my sites more than
12 hours !

02) I have big problems with my computer. Crashes in WinBoard or Fritz matches
after 1 hour ! I can not find a mistake in my system, last month I have the
same mistake. I think my RAM or my processor is defect !
Regards
Frank

Someone has circulated a virus in the USA, I have no idea if that has effected you or not. This is a virus warning that my sister's isp sent them. They are talking about this over at CCC today and someone said that it effects Outlook Express users, but I use Netscape.
Pete
"
VIRUS ALERT:
As a service to our customers, Adams would like to make you aware of a
destructive virus that has hit the US, including our area, just this
morning. If you receive an email with "ILOVEYOU" in the subject line, even
if it looks like it is from a friend or colleague, delete it immediately.
EXPLANATION:
Called the "Love Bug," the virus is carried in an e-mail with "ILOVEYOU" in
the subject line. A one-line message reads, "Kindly check the attached
LOVELETTER coming from me." The accompanying attachment is named
LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU-TXT.vbs.
If a user opens the attachment, the virus sends itself to all the contacts
in the recipient's e-mail address book. Since many of the people listed in a
typical address book will work for the same company, opening the attachment
can cause it to resend the message to everyone again and again — a vicious
circle that can ultimately cause the e-mail servers to overload and crash.
According to software security firms, the virus also overwrites music and
picture files that use the extensions JPG, JPEG, MP3 and MP2. (Source:
http://www.computerworld.com)
The following is information from www.norton.com indicating steps to take if
you've 'been infected.'
from http://www.norton.com...
This is a preliminary writeup. The information contained within is to
provide as much information as possible at this time.
VBS.LoveLetter.A is an email worm, mIRC worm, and a file infector.
VBS.LoveLetter.A will use Microsoft Outlook and email itself out as an
attachment with the above subject line and attachment name. The body of the
message will be kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me.
The virus will also infect files with the following extensions: vbs, vbe,
js, jse, css, wsh, sct, hta, jpg, jpeg, mp3, and mp2
The virus will insert the following files:
MSKernel32.vbs in the Windows System directory
Win32DLL.vbs in the Windows directory
LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs in the Windows System directory
WinFAT32.EXE in the Internet download directory
WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE in the Internet download directory
script.ini in the mIRC directory
SARC recommends Administrators filter on the attachment name and Subject
line immediately.
Removal:
Delete found infected files.
"

[Gabor Szots]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Gabor Szots at 05 May 2000 08:42:11:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: in-trier web pages down/wondering about Exchess geschrieben von: / posted by: Pete Galati at 05 May 2000 05:20:40:

Exchess no longer seems to need commandline parameters for setting it's hashtables, that seems to be covered in the search.par file now. According to Dan Homan's txt file if you have a recent version of Winboard, all you need is "Exchess". I think I had something in there like "xb"? you don't seem to need that anymore if I'm reading the file correctly.
Dan pointed out at CCC that the dll file is no longer needed because he compiled with Borland now. If I recall corectly I was haveing trouble pasting epd positions into Exchess before with the previous versions, now I'm not having that trouble. just a note about pasting epd files into the "text-mode" of Exchess, first enter the "setboard" comand, then a space, then click on the little clipboard icon on the top of the Dos box (after you've coppied the epd to the clipboard of coarse) and then hit Enter.
But you don't want to include the extra info that gets included when Winboard saves an epd position, for example, this position:
rnbq1rk1/pp2ppbp/6p1/8/4N3/1R1BPN2/P5PP/3Q1RK1 b - - 0 13
just leave the " 0 13" off the end, because Exchess will think that those are errors. It probably won't interfere if you put them in though.
So,
Setboard rnbq1rk1/pp2ppbp/6p1/8/4N3/1R1BPN2/P5PP/3Q1RK1 b - - (enter)
would get the position into Exchess, & you could use Exchess' "analyze" command to give similer results to Crafty's analyze, then like Crafty, use "exit" to stop the analysis. The search results will show up in Exchess' log file if you have that turned on.
Pete

Addition for the Pentium II optimized Corbit version:
If you find it doesn't use the opening book, rename the open_bk.dat file to Eopen_bk.dat and search.par to Esearch.par. I don't know why this is needed, but it works. Only I don't yet know if book learning is possible this way.
Gábor

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Dann Corbit at 05 May 2000 09:30:59:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Virus or Provider problem ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 05 May 2000 06:32:57:

Hi Pete,

I was starting to look at the new Exchess program, and I keep trying to get at Frank's overview pages, but they have not worked for a while now.

At the moment I have a lot of problems ...
01) I can not start my webpages, I hope not the virus problem !
Yesterday my pages are very slow and now I can not start my sites more than
12 hours !

02) I have big problems with my computer. Crashes in WinBoard or Fritz matches
after 1 hour ! I can not find a mistake in my system, last month I have the
same mistake. I think my RAM or my processor is defect !

Not your fault. Your whole ISP is down:
C:\>ping www.in-trier.de
Pinging shodan.in-trier.de [198.22.51.3] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.


my FTP site

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Dann Corbit at 05 May 2000 09:32:25:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Virus or Provider problem ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Dann Corbit at 05 May 2000 09:30:59:

Hi Pete,

I was starting to look at the new Exchess program, and I keep trying to get at Frank's overview pages, but they have not worked for a while now.

At the moment I have a lot of problems ...
01) I can not start my webpages, I hope not the virus problem !
Yesterday my pages are very slow and now I can not start my sites more than
12 hours !

02) I have big problems with my computer. Crashes in WinBoard or Fritz matches
after 1 hour ! I can not find a mistake in my system, last month I have the
same mistake. I think my RAM or my processor is defect !

Not your fault. Your whole ISP is down:
C:\>ping www.in-trier.de
Pinging shodan.in-trier.de [198.22.51.3] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Just noticed something.
The black-belt has been defeated.


my FTP site

[Frank Quisinsky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 05 May 2000 16:58:00:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Virus or Provider problem ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Dann Corbit at 05 May 2000 09:32:25:

Hi Pete,

I was starting to look at the new Exchess program, and I keep trying to get at Frank's overview pages, but they have not worked for a while now.

At the moment I have a lot of problems ...
01) I can not start my webpages, I hope not the virus problem !
Yesterday my pages are very slow and now I can not start my sites more than
12 hours !

02) I have big problems with my computer. Crashes in WinBoard or Fritz matches
after 1 hour ! I can not find a mistake in my system, last month I have the
same mistake. I think my RAM or my processor is defect !

Not your fault. Your whole ISP is down:
C:\>ping www.in-trier.de
Pinging shodan.in-trier.de [198.22.51.3] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Just noticed something.
The black-belt has been defeated.

Yes a problem from my provider. I got for 2 hours an eMail from logIN Trier. My provider work on this problem.
Regards
Frank

[Frank Quisinsky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 06 May 2000 18:21:58:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Virus or Provider problem ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Pete Galati at 05 May 2000 08:13:34:

Hi Pete,

I was starting to look at the new Exchess program, and I keep trying to get at Frank's overview pages, but they have not worked for a while now.

At the moment I have a lot of problems ...
01) I can not start my webpages, I hope not the virus problem !
Yesterday my pages are very slow and now I can not start my sites more than
12 hours !

02) I have big problems with my computer. Crashes in WinBoard or Fritz matches
after 1 hour ! I can not find a mistake in my system, last month I have the
same mistake. I think my RAM or my processor is defect !
Regards
Frank

Someone has circulated a virus in the USA, I have no idea if that has effected you or not. This is a virus warning that my sister's isp sent them. They are talking about this over at CCC today and someone said that it effects Outlook Express users, but I use Netscape.
Pete
"
VIRUS ALERT:
As a service to our customers, Adams would like to make you aware of a
destructive virus that has hit the US, including our area, just this
morning. If you receive an email with "ILOVEYOU" in the subject line, even
if it looks like it is from a friend or colleague, delete it immediately.
EXPLANATION:
Called the "Love Bug," the virus is carried in an e-mail with "ILOVEYOU" in
the subject line. A one-line message reads, "Kindly check the attached
LOVELETTER coming from me." The accompanying attachment is named
LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU-TXT.vbs.
If a user opens the attachment, the virus sends itself to all the contacts
in the recipient's e-mail address book. Since many of the people listed in a
typical address book will work for the same company, opening the attachment
can cause it to resend the message to everyone again and again — a vicious
circle that can ultimately cause the e-mail servers to overload and crash.
According to software security firms, the virus also overwrites music and
picture files that use the extensions JPG, JPEG, MP3 and MP2. (Source:
http://www.computerworld.com)
The following is information from www.norton.com indicating steps to take if
you've 'been infected.'
from http://www.norton.com...
This is a preliminary writeup. The information contained within is to
provide as much information as possible at this time.
VBS.LoveLetter.A is an email worm, mIRC worm, and a file infector.
VBS.LoveLetter.A will use Microsoft Outlook and email itself out as an
attachment with the above subject line and attachment name. The body of the
message will be kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me.
The virus will also infect files with the following extensions: vbs, vbe,
js, jse, css, wsh, sct, hta, jpg, jpeg, mp3, and mp2
The virus will insert the following files:
MSKernel32.vbs in the Windows System directory
Win32DLL.vbs in the Windows directory
LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs in the Windows System directory
WinFAT32.EXE in the Internet download directory
WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE in the Internet download directory
script.ini in the mIRC directory
SARC recommends Administrators filter on the attachment name and Subject
line immediately.
Removal:
Delete found infected files.
"

Hi Pete,
interesting ...
but the problem from logIN Trier is not the virus. I got a eMail from logIN Trier.
Pete, have you tested other options in the EXchess search.par file. I think not all must stand of 48 !
Regards
Frank

[Pete Galati]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Pete Galati at 06 May 2000 19:00:45:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Virus or Provider problem ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 06 May 2000 18:21:58:

Hi Pete,

I was starting to look at the new Exchess program, and I keep trying to get at Frank's overview pages, but they have not worked for a while now.

At the moment I have a lot of problems ...
01) I can not start my webpages, I hope not the virus problem !
Yesterday my pages are very slow and now I can not start my sites more than
12 hours !

02) I have big problems with my computer. Crashes in WinBoard or Fritz matches
after 1 hour ! I can not find a mistake in my system, last month I have the
same mistake. I think my RAM or my processor is defect !
Regards
Frank

Someone has circulated a virus in the USA, I have no idea if that has effected you or not. This is a virus warning that my sister's isp sent them. They are talking about this over at CCC today and someone said that it effects Outlook Express users, but I use Netscape.
Pete
"
VIRUS ALERT:
As a service to our customers, Adams would like to make you aware of a
destructive virus that has hit the US, including our area, just this
morning. If you receive an email with "ILOVEYOU" in the subject line, even
if it looks like it is from a friend or colleague, delete it immediately.
EXPLANATION:
Called the "Love Bug," the virus is carried in an e-mail with "ILOVEYOU" in
the subject line. A one-line message reads, "Kindly check the attached
LOVELETTER coming from me." The accompanying attachment is named
LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU-TXT.vbs.
If a user opens the attachment, the virus sends itself to all the contacts
in the recipient's e-mail address book. Since many of the people listed in a
typical address book will work for the same company, opening the attachment
can cause it to resend the message to everyone again and again — a vicious
circle that can ultimately cause the e-mail servers to overload and crash.
According to software security firms, the virus also overwrites music and
picture files that use the extensions JPG, JPEG, MP3 and MP2. (Source:
http://www.computerworld.com)
The following is information from www.norton.com indicating steps to take if
you've 'been infected.'
from http://www.norton.com...
This is a preliminary writeup. The information contained within is to
provide as much information as possible at this time.
VBS.LoveLetter.A is an email worm, mIRC worm, and a file infector.
VBS.LoveLetter.A will use Microsoft Outlook and email itself out as an
attachment with the above subject line and attachment name. The body of the
message will be kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me.
The virus will also infect files with the following extensions: vbs, vbe,
js, jse, css, wsh, sct, hta, jpg, jpeg, mp3, and mp2
The virus will insert the following files:
MSKernel32.vbs in the Windows System directory
Win32DLL.vbs in the Windows directory
LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs in the Windows System directory
WinFAT32.EXE in the Internet download directory
WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE in the Internet download directory
script.ini in the mIRC directory
SARC recommends Administrators filter on the attachment name and Subject
line immediately.
Removal:
Delete found infected files.
"

Hi Pete,
interesting ...
but the problem from logIN Trier is not the virus. I got a eMail from logIN Trier.
Pete, have you tested other options in the EXchess search.par file. I think not all must stand of 48 !
Regards
Frank

I don't understand what this means "I think not all must stand of 48 !"
I have not tried everything in there yet. Mostly I have the hashtable size, my log is turned on, and it also specifies where my tablebases are.
I'm interested in changing the "Search Extensions" and the "Piece values" the most because those things are easy to understand and I think I can drasticlly alter Exchess' personality by modifying those. I'm not interested in making it stronger because it's allready stronger than me.
I'm glad I got a copy of Comet before your site went down Frank.
Pete

[Frank Quisinsky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 06 May 2000 19:28:29:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Virus or Provider problem ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Pete Galati at 06 May 2000 19:00:45:
Pete,

I don't understand what this means "I think not all must stand of 48 !"
I have not tried everything in there yet. Mostly I have the hashtable size,
my log is turned on, and it also specifies where my tablebases are.
I'm interested in changing the "Search Extensions" and the "Piece values" the most because those things are easy to understand and I think I can drasticlly alter Exchess' personality by modifying those. I'm not interested in making it stronger because it's allready stronger than me.
I'm glad I got a copy of Comet before your site went down Frank.

My search.par ...
HASH 32
EGTB_PATH c:\chess\nalimov
EGTB_CACHE_SIZE 2
LOG 1
MAX_LOGS 100
GAMBIT_SCORE 80
BOOK_FILE open_bk.dat
BOOK_LEARNING 1
RECAPTURE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
CHECK_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
ONE_REPLY_TO_CHECK 48 # default 48
PAWN_PUSH_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
MATE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
INITIAL_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
NULL_MOVE_REDUCTION 128 # default 128
RAZORING_DEPTH 192 # default 192
PAWN_VALUE 100 # default 100
KNIGHT_VALUE 330 # default 330
BISHOP_VALUE 330 # default 330
ROOK_VALUE 550 # default 550
QUEEN_VALUE 1000 # default 1000
KING_VALUE 10000 # default 10000
And following options ...
RECAPTURE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
CHECK_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
ONE_REPLY_TO_CHECK 48 # default 48
PAWN_PUSH_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
MATE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
INITIAL_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
Josef Zwinger wrote me for 2 months that 24 in all is good !
And it`s allready stronger than me
Interesting are the Nimzo "Piece values" (little test for EXchess ...)
Nimzo2000b.ini
[NimzoWerkstatt/WinBoard-Nimzo2000b]
HashMemKB=32768
StdBookName=standard.nbk
CheCodeName=c:\chess\winboard\nimzo\wbnimzo2000b.cmp
PwnThreatFlg=1
MultiCutCnt=2
BishopPair=50
MidGameMob=32
EndGameMob=10
Opponent=1
PcThreat=1
FewMvsThreat=0
FutilCutoff=1
FutilStrCutoff=0
RandomBook=0
LearnFlg=1
PEval=6
KSafty=8
PVal=105
NVal=425
BVal=425
RVal=685
QVal=1240
AskHashSz=0
And for EXchess ...
PVal=105
NVal=425
BVal=425
RVal=685
QVal=1240
with ? ...
I hope in the next hours my webpage runs fine, at the moment "provider KO" !
Regards
Frank

[Pete Galati]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Pete Galati at 07 May 2000 03:48:32:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Virus or Provider problem ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 06 May 2000 19:28:29:

Pete,

I don't understand what this means "I think not all must stand of 48 !"
I have not tried everything in there yet. Mostly I have the hashtable size,
my log is turned on, and it also specifies where my tablebases are.
I'm interested in changing the "Search Extensions" and the "Piece values" the most because those things are easy to understand and I think I can drasticlly alter Exchess' personality by modifying those. I'm not interested in making it stronger because it's allready stronger than me.
I'm glad I got a copy of Comet before your site went down Frank.

My search.par ...
HASH 32
EGTB_PATH c:\chess\nalimov
EGTB_CACHE_SIZE 2
LOG 1
MAX_LOGS 100
GAMBIT_SCORE 80
BOOK_FILE open_bk.dat
BOOK_LEARNING 1
RECAPTURE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
CHECK_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
ONE_REPLY_TO_CHECK 48 # default 48
PAWN_PUSH_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
MATE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
INITIAL_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
NULL_MOVE_REDUCTION 128 # default 128
RAZORING_DEPTH 192 # default 192
PAWN_VALUE 100 # default 100
KNIGHT_VALUE 330 # default 330
BISHOP_VALUE 330 # default 330
ROOK_VALUE 550 # default 550
QUEEN_VALUE 1000 # default 1000
KING_VALUE 10000 # default 10000
And following options ...
RECAPTURE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
CHECK_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
ONE_REPLY_TO_CHECK 48 # default 48
PAWN_PUSH_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
MATE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
INITIAL_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
Josef Zwinger wrote me for 2 months that 24 in all is good !
And it`s allready stronger than me
Interesting are the Nimzo "Piece values" (little test for EXchess ...)
Nimzo2000b.ini
[NimzoWerkstatt/WinBoard-Nimzo2000b]
HashMemKB=32768
StdBookName=standard.nbk
CheCodeName=c:\chess\winboard\nimzo\wbnimzo2000b.cmp
PwnThreatFlg=1
MultiCutCnt=2
BishopPair=50
MidGameMob=32
EndGameMob=10
Opponent=1
PcThreat=1
FewMvsThreat=0
FutilCutoff=1
FutilStrCutoff=0
RandomBook=0
LearnFlg=1
PEval=6
KSafty=8
PVal=105
NVal=425
BVal=425
RVal=685
QVal=1240
AskHashSz=0
And for EXchess ...
PVal=105
NVal=425
BVal=425
RVal=685
QVal=1240
with ? ...
I hope in the next hours my webpage runs fine, at the moment "provider KO" !
Regards
Frank

This is very much like mine, but I have way less hashtables, and my egtb cache is only 1
I want to try RECAPTURE_EXTENSION at higher numbers
I want to try PAWN_PUSH_EXTENSION at higher numbers
I might raise PAWN_VALUE to 150 or 200
& reduce KNIGHT_VALUE to 300
and reduce QUEEN_VALUE to maybe 800
I hope Dan's next version will include many more adjustments, I'll have to make a text file of Nimzo's settings. Exchess can probably be made to play allot more like a human than it does, because the way it comes it's probably set up to be as strong as possible, but it can probably be adjusted to have similar reactions to someone like me. But I'm not sure if that's really what I want to play against.
I was thinking of sitting down for a while and borrowing some code from a book to help me make a program that would randomly select names of programs for me to play against in a game. So I would play the first 8 moves against one program, then have the program selector pick another program for me and I'd play the next 2 moves against another program, then 2 moves against another program, etc... So over the one game I'd end up facing the various personalities of several programs.
But that would require allot of loading and saving, it would be very distracting to play that way. It would be cool if Winboard had the ability to start several different Winboard engines all at the same time, and allow you to select which one you wanted to use, and change your opponent during the game. I'm sure that's possible to modify it to do that, but I have no idea how much work it would take.
Pete

[Pete Galati]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Pete Galati at 07 May 2000 06:18:38:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Virus or Provider problem ! geschrieben von: / posted by: Pete Galati at 07 May 2000 03:48:32:

Pete,

I don't understand what this means "I think not all must stand of 48 !"
I have not tried everything in there yet. Mostly I have the hashtable size,
my log is turned on, and it also specifies where my tablebases are.
I'm interested in changing the "Search Extensions" and the "Piece values" the most because those things are easy to understand and I think I can drasticlly alter Exchess' personality by modifying those. I'm not interested in making it stronger because it's allready stronger than me.
I'm glad I got a copy of Comet before your site went down Frank.

My search.par ...
HASH 32
EGTB_PATH c:\chess\nalimov
EGTB_CACHE_SIZE 2
LOG 1
MAX_LOGS 100
GAMBIT_SCORE 80
BOOK_FILE open_bk.dat
BOOK_LEARNING 1
RECAPTURE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
CHECK_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
ONE_REPLY_TO_CHECK 48 # default 48
PAWN_PUSH_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
MATE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
INITIAL_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
NULL_MOVE_REDUCTION 128 # default 128
RAZORING_DEPTH 192 # default 192
PAWN_VALUE 100 # default 100
KNIGHT_VALUE 330 # default 330
BISHOP_VALUE 330 # default 330
ROOK_VALUE 550 # default 550
QUEEN_VALUE 1000 # default 1000
KING_VALUE 10000 # default 10000
And following options ...
RECAPTURE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
CHECK_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
ONE_REPLY_TO_CHECK 48 # default 48
PAWN_PUSH_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
MATE_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
INITIAL_EXTENSION 48 # default 48
Josef Zwinger wrote me for 2 months that 24 in all is good !
And it`s allready stronger than me
Interesting are the Nimzo "Piece values" (little test for EXchess ...)
Nimzo2000b.ini
[NimzoWerkstatt/WinBoard-Nimzo2000b]
HashMemKB=32768
StdBookName=standard.nbk
CheCodeName=c:\chess\winboard\nimzo\wbnimzo2000b.cmp
PwnThreatFlg=1
MultiCutCnt=2
BishopPair=50
MidGameMob=32
EndGameMob=10
Opponent=1
PcThreat=1
FewMvsThreat=0
FutilCutoff=1
FutilStrCutoff=0
RandomBook=0
LearnFlg=1
PEval=6
KSafty=8
PVal=105
NVal=425
BVal=425
RVal=685
QVal=1240
AskHashSz=0
And for EXchess ...
PVal=105
NVal=425
BVal=425
RVal=685
QVal=1240
with ? ...
I hope in the next hours my webpage runs fine, at the moment "provider KO" !
Regards
Frank

This is very much like mine, but I have way less hashtables, and my egtb cache is only 1
I want to try RECAPTURE_EXTENSION at higher numbers
I want to try PAWN_PUSH_EXTENSION at higher numbers
I might raise PAWN_VALUE to 150 or 200
& reduce KNIGHT_VALUE to 300
and reduce QUEEN_VALUE to maybe 800
I hope Dan's next version will include many more adjustments, I'll have to make a text file of Nimzo's settings. Exchess can probably be made to play allot more like a human than it does, because the way it comes it's probably set up to be as strong as possible, but it can probably be adjusted to have similar reactions to someone like me. But I'm not sure if that's really what I want to play against.
I was thinking of sitting down for a while and borrowing some code from a book to help me make a program that would randomly select names of programs for me to play against in a game. So I would play the first 8 moves against one program, then have the program selector pick another program for me and I'd play the next 2 moves against another program, then 2 moves against another program, etc... So over the one game I'd end up facing the various personalities of several programs.
But that would require allot of loading and saving, it would be very distracting to play that way. It would be cool if Winboard had the ability to start several different Winboard engines all at the same time, and allow you to select which one you wanted to use, and change your opponent during the game. I'm sure that's possible to modify it to do that, but I have no idea how much work it would take.
Pete

I beleive that I'm wrong about this last idea, I don't think it would be posible to modify Winboard to be able change the engine that it's using without first stopping and restarting. But I'm not sure. It would certanly take some drastic changes, and you would need allot of memory to run something like that if it started 5 or 6 engines all at once. Part of me says that this would be posible, but then part wants to say that this is too far from the nature of the beast as it is now.
Pete
Pete