Yace 0.16 available

[Dieter Buerssner]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Dieter Buerssner at 14 June 2000 19:34:45:
Yace 0.16 can be downloaded from Frank's site:
http://www.in-trier.de/~quisinsky/schac ... oad-15.htm
and probably soon from Dann's site as well.
Thanks to Frank, for making this possible.
Don't delete the old version yet. Not much testing done with 0.16.
Regards,
Dieter
Version 0.16
(Hopefully) found the repetion bug. Thanks to Gabor Szots for posting
the FIDE rules. I thought the position must be repeated 3 times (vs.
occure for the third time)
Version 0.15
Implement an experimental version of resigning. To enable put a line
resign on into yace.ini. (Default is resign off.) No clock considerations
yet.
Updated readme.txt a little bit.
Make the not supported commands silent in xboard mode.
Implement post/nopost.
Accept the analyze command, answer: Error (unknown command): analyze
Accept the bk command.
Accept the computer command.
Accept the name command.
Accept the rating command.
Accept the hint command.
Accept the draw command. All of these are noops.
Bug fixed in time code (for Windows only).
Bug fixed where draw was not recognized, because only one move was possible.
New hash table strategy: Make it easier to overwrite entries from previous
search.
Less lines posted in xboard_mode.
Posting shows some more information.
.: finished this depth
f.: after search is over, finished this depth
u.: after search is over, this depth is partly unfinished
t: best at this depth so far
t+: move seems better (fail high), research with larger window *)
t-: fails low again (shouldn't happen too ofen) *)
++: Much better than expected, start search again with new window. *)
--: Much worse than expected, start search again with new window. *)
*)
PV shown doesn't make much sense, it is such the PV that failed high
or low. The researching should show a better PV.
Version 0.14
Minor evaluation tweak: Yace shouldn't loose castling rights that easy
anymore. Freepawn are a tiny bit more worth now. Default positional
score is a bit higher now.
New command pval:
pval=1.0 [default, old default would have been 0.67]
pval=1.5 [positional scores are higher]
The "=" can be replaced by one (or more) space character(s).
Values between 0.5 and 2.0 are accepted.
To experiment put such a line in yace.ini
Of course no floating point will be used internally.
Changed invalid move to Illegal move.
Don't complain about result anymore (but still ignore).
Move ordering enhancements.
Added a few error messages.
Deleted some debug output.

[Frank Quisinsky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 14 June 2000 20:21:16:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Yace 0.16 available geschrieben von: / posted by: Dieter Buerssner at 14 June 2000 19:34:45:

Thanks to Frank, for making this possible.

No problem
Thanks Dieter for your program !
Have a nice day
Regards
Frank

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Dann Corbit at 14 June 2000 22:34:36:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Yace 0.16 available geschrieben von: / posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 14 June 2000 20:21:16:

Thanks to Frank, for making this possible.

No problem
Thanks Dieter for your program !

I am running 0.16 through BoundsChecker right now. I should have a binary available in an hour or so.


My FTP site