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dboing

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#11

#9 "meta engine where you have a big opening book to start,"

thanks for reply. any suggestion for that part?

#9 "meta engine where you have a big opening book to start," thanks for reply. any suggestion for that part?

jomega

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#11 @dboing Are you asking about where to start with an opening book? I'm playing with that. Contact me via PM.

jomega

#13

An update to #3. Those values for those parameters are sufficient to disable searching. The settings of the GUI game time controls can be whatever you want. I know this because the engine is returning that it only looked at one node (once it is out of any opening book I set).

I successfully set Maia up in the Tarrasch Chess GUI also. That is a free, very simple to use GUI. However, in the version I currently have, V3.12a, it seems you can only have one engine defined and available at a time. Also in that GUI you have to type in the parameters themselves and the names have to match what the program wants in the UCI; not the command line parameter spellings. So

UCI Engine executable file: full path to .exe
WeightsFile: full path to weights file.
Threads: 1
MinibatchSize: 1
Maxprefetch: 0
NodesPerSecondLimit: 0.001

Like most chess GUIs, Tarrasch allows you to use whatever opening book you have, or turn it off.
Per UCI documentation, it is the GUI that controls the opening book play (unless you use UCI commands to do otherwise).

As was said earlier, there are many such chess GUIs available, and they all have similar engine setup abilities.

So far I'm finding the 1100 weights file causes play without any opening book to be more like a 800-ish ELO player. I have a use for that, and now I'm going to try the higher rated weight files.

An update to #3. Those values for those parameters are sufficient to disable searching. The settings of the GUI game time controls can be whatever you want. I know this because the engine is returning that it only looked at one node (once it is out of any opening book I set). I successfully set Maia up in the Tarrasch Chess GUI also. That is a free, very simple to use GUI. However, in the version I currently have, V3.12a, it seems you can only have one engine defined and available at a time. Also in that GUI you have to type in the parameters themselves and the names have to match what the program wants in the UCI; not the command line parameter spellings. So UCI Engine executable file: full path to .exe WeightsFile: full path to weights file. Threads: 1 MinibatchSize: 1 Maxprefetch: 0 NodesPerSecondLimit: 0.001 Like most chess GUIs, Tarrasch allows you to use whatever opening book you have, or turn it off. Per UCI documentation, it is the GUI that controls the opening book play (unless you use UCI commands to do otherwise). As was said earlier, there are many such chess GUIs available, and they all have similar engine setup abilities. So far I'm finding the 1100 weights file causes play without any opening book to be more like a 800-ish ELO player. I have a use for that, and now I'm going to try the higher rated weight files.