December and January were full of bad surprises in my life. It just reminded once again that life is a chess game too, more or less complex, where you have to protect your valuable pieces from the other color and to achieve this, you may have to sacrifice some of the other pieces to survive.
No matter what number of squares are present on the board, it's a game that begins and ends for a purpose.
Despite all difficulties, i hope i can continue to allocate enough time to keep this "still unique" blog alive and kicking, in near future because it proved to be worth the effort.
This January of 2018, Chesstroid has reached 500.000 hits after 3 years without any artificial support or sponsoring. Today i'm proud of what it has become. To be honest, it's gone way beyond what i'd imagined in the beginning.
Thanks for all those who supported. You're all amazing...
gg Gurcan :)
ReplyDeleteYou are a worthy opponent ... well done
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 3+ years Gurcan!! Chesstroid is a valuable resource and the 'go-to' blog for Android Chess lovers.Well played! :-)
DeleteGurcan thanks for ur effort
ReplyDeleteLazar ,Alexei ,Rahul , Paulzz
Stockfish 7 is vry strong , can u give me name of chess engine which can beat it ?
n also ur perspective about new chess engine ,their character
I'll give my feedback in coming days,thanks for sharing info about Chess Art for kids,Im surprised that it contains the Bagatur Engine.
DeleteAlexei
ReplyDeletehave a look , if possible compile it
https://bitbucket.org/waterreaction/giraffe
Yes sir gurcan this blog is so helpful especially to chess lovers . It helps alot of people. In their chess games preparations .. learning from mistakes in past games.. many chess engine here very strong which helps us study chess more deeply.. thanks Alexei and Gurcan for all the effort and good things you guys are great . More power xd
ReplyDeleteGood result Gurcan!
ReplyDeleteHello all
ReplyDeletehave a look at
Chess Art For Kids which contains
Bagatur Engine
if possible share only engine binary which works in droidfish
I managed to extract the 3 engines and polyglot books in PBchess app and I installed them in DroidFish.
DeleteHi chysiddh.I dont think Bagatur engine can be extracted-at least from what i can see.
DeleteThe same here I can't extract the engine.
DeleteWhat engines exactly?
DeleteI checked Pbchess. There are Toga 1.3.1 and Fruit 2.1, already in my repository. SF8 build is unknown to me. It's very small, less than 400KB.
DeleteThe three engines I managed to extract from PBchess are SF8,Toga 1.3.1,and Fruit 2.1.I also got the two polyglot books which I installed in DroidFish book folder.
DeleteHi Gurcan,whatever are those bad surprisesalways remember that there's always a light at the end of the tunnel.Your blog has helped a lot of chess enthusiast including me.Cheer up my friend.Chesstroid will be here for more years to come.
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeletesir Gurcan,acid ape update with senpai2, rodent and scorpio,so please provide us standalone acid ape build.
Thanks
It's scheduled this way already. I'll post soon.
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ReplyDeleteHi Paulzzz, Is it possible to extract "arasan20.4.1" from acid app chess.if possible then tell me how??
ReplyDeleteRahul! You can this from an apk,using any zip archive app, then finding the engine and extract it.
ReplyDeleteKarim ullah!many many thanks to help me.
ReplyDeleteKarim, can you provide me komodo11 by extract it.
ReplyDeleteKomodo 11 is paid app , it need licence to check n work , cannot work by extracting it
ReplyDeleteRahul,komodo 11 build is installing apk, you can't extract it,you can extract engines only from apps, for example, pbchess,or droidfish,and even from a tactic puzzle apps
ReplyDeletelantonov/asmFish
ReplyDeleteupdate
download which is latest 1day ago
https://github.com/lantonov/asmFish/tree/executables/ARM
also download matefinder
ReplyDeletelatest 1 day ago
https://github.com/lantonov/asmFish/tree/executables/Matefinder
i hope u guys find it before me
None works for me, unfortunately
ReplyDeletearmFishL_2018-02-11_v8
Deleteworks for my device try it
matefinder unable to work in mine device
have a look at
ReplyDeletehttps://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Engines+for+Android
Go to this upper site
ReplyDeletechoose any engine and open it
then go to
external link ( in bottom of page )
choose 1st 1 , either it will bring u to this engine homepage then download
or in github goto
view code
search for android then download
hope this will certainly work in ur device
The latest armFish and mateFish works well in my device.
DeleteBoth armfish and matefish work on my device.Also matefish from 20171004 also works for me :-)
DeleteHi guys check pychess website,it has a polyglot book there which you can use in DroidFish.
ReplyDeleteLazar, does mateFish shows as armFish when starting Droidfish for you too?
ReplyDeleteYes it does ;-) though i can confirm that the older matefish 20171004 is in fact a different engine from armfish of the same date.I havent checked the new matefish of 2018 but i assume its different from armfish of 2018
DeleteChysidh! How can you download cuckoo chess engine or chess genius, both external links not working for me..
ReplyDeleteIts better to ask Gurcan ,for Chess Genius 2.6.4 , he has used in RAPIDROID RELOADED
DeleteCuckoo chess
( in jar file format )
http://hem.bredband.net/petero2b/javachess/index.html
Author says
In 2012 he ported CuckooChess to C++11 and also renamed it to Texel.
So Karim better to use texel chess engine
Well, infact you dropped a link of android chess engine, the previous question was regarding your links, why would I ask gurcan Tough?
DeleteI use both texel and CT800 engines a lot now.The ability to slow the engines down with the nodes per second option allows me to weaken then to a level where i have a chance to actually play them and beat them.I find that at times to be more fun and rewarding than just watching engines play each other in automated games ;-) im hoping other engine authors add this feature to their engines too..
ReplyDeleteHi Lazar
Deletethere is
DanaSah LimitStrength v.6.5
try it if u find it interesting
https://sites.google.com/site/danasah/english/danasah-z-engine
but Chessdroid has danasah 7
Arasan also has options of Uci limit strength
Deletekeep up the good work gurcan
ReplyDeletethanks for the great effort you put in this blog
Hello,sir gurcan can you tell me why ethereal8.85ACH build always win from Andy updated ethereal,see
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZNIJTDt9nFbXtKzBMa4-ylDuI-BlptsD/view?usp=drivesdk
The reason shpuld be the difference between compiling options and environment. The compiler itself is a factor. Pgo too. We all know Alexei has more expertise than Andy in this task.
DeleteSee latest updated ethereal result.
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oa42IyqqNF9TnEwNZbz6zfGdX_QsqzHe/view?usp=drivesdk
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ReplyDeleteHello Gurcan
ReplyDeletecan u please provide us working link for Chess Genius 2.6.4 ?
kindly waiting for ur reply
Chess genius is a paid app.From what i understand Gurcan played the Chess Genius games manually as he did with ios Hiarcs etc.I assume you knew this chysiddh.Currently Chess Genius is in version 3.0.4.
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ReplyDeleteChess genius lite doesnt work for you? Hmm strange.Chess Genius has always been 32bit so there is only only 32bit binaries in the lite version.it should work.Do you get an error message?
DeleteSorry lazar , i mean to say working binary of lite
ReplyDeleteacid ape -chess engine collection n javiolo --chess engine
works well in droidfish
i know u have better known than me
, u can find rodent/risky in it
Somedays earlier I extracted libginkgo.2.0.PIE.so from Fritz 15 app.it can be picked up by any GUI,but it will show its name to Fritz 15 instead of ginkgo,, I don't why?
ReplyDeleteIt is Ginkgo actually
ReplyDeleteif u load under chess tournament app , it shows author name
Frank Schneider
but branding makes it to have name Deep Fritz 15
@Rahul
ReplyDeleteIt seems none of Scorpio works in my device
share ur working Scorpio link
Scorpio is xb engine, can work in cfa , have you tried it?
DeleteI have found link for compiling chess engine
ReplyDeletehave a look , if possible try compiling
http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-download.html
Good web, but I'm android user, no more PC here, and they have already compiled Leonidas, for android, did you test it?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately not working for me...
ReplyDeleteI m willing to share what i know.
ReplyDeletethat link is for people who has done IT
n want to compile chess engine for android
I hope they understood what i meant to say
sungorus-14-ja
ReplyDeletefrom the jim ablet android chess bundle
It works best both in droidfish n chess tournament app
But it shows nps:0
thats
Nodes per second (NPS)
i m confuse why that happens ?
but excited to use as new engine.😊
Same again with
DeleteEmbla
nps:0 but works perfectly
why is that any reason ?
Hold on a little while more friend. Some of us are also getting out of the woods and surely will support you when able and needed.
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ReplyDeleteEthereal9.00
ReplyDeletehttps://github.com/AndyGrant/Ethereal/releases
I dont have any idea how to use
Ethereal9.00-Android.exe
So i replace .exe with arm7
Hurrrray , it works perfectly
glad to have it
it excellent both in Droidfish n chess tournament app
try it , if any idea tell me.
Can be picked up by analyze this 5.0 app, then freeze, do you have the same problem ?
ReplyDeleteAny compilation for gojemat chess engine?
ReplyDeleteThis engine is illegal because it doesn't comply with GPL.
DeleteIt is a Fruit derivative.
@Karim i dont use analyze this
ReplyDeletei have played round robin between Arasan n Ethereal9.00
no any problem
game progress to the end
In Droidfish , i played Ethereal9.00 checkmate me
( suggesting no any problem )
Karim try in droidfish , chess tournament
also provide me answer if it works in cfa or not
Yea its really working in cfa, too strong for me to beat him
ReplyDeleteI don't use chess tournament app, but it really working in hawk chess app, a two matches between ethereal 9 and hawk chess was checked right now, the result is , ethereal 9 won first match as white, the second as Blake side was drawn,
ReplyDeleteChysidh try to find a strong engine as alphazero lol, I don't think if your ethereal 9 will beat bobcat oldest version haha
Delete@Karim use Sugar xpro
DeleteSugar, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Stockfish
It will beat every chess engine even stockfish 9
n its clone , derivative
I know sugar is strong but if u choose no book...
Deletewithout book also it beats every chess engine
DeleteNow, ethereal9 improved much, need sir Alexie build of "ethereal9",waiting..........
ReplyDeleteMy compilation Cfish-150218.
ReplyDeleteNew patch: Updated to "Simplify trapped rook"
https://app.box.com/s/s8r3erqhdg8m1y166hkypx5808gfg6ty
My compilation Ethereal-9 (arm7.pgo,arm64v8):
ReplyDeletehttps://app.box.com/s/fptzzflt75kkom6pzcdwkfl8xjyw8y6i
Great thanks sir Alexie.
DeleteGreat to see u
Deletethank u vry vry much
Thanks Alexei! Seems like this CFish doesn't support Cerebellum anymore?
Delete...wrong place, sorry ;) but the question remains
DeleteAlexei! Your compilation of ethereal 9 saved nearly 500kb.. it has the same strength..wow
ReplyDeleteSaved me,
Delete@Karim Alexei compilation are faster n stronger
Deleteit shows nps:>200
n also size less
Thank you Alexei.
ReplyDeleteRodent engine in Acid Ape Chess is cool because it's capable of playing different personalities in android platform.
Is it possible to increase the cores/threads in Hawk Chess?
Yes I think hash and threads is possible, but why?
ReplyDeleteMy question from Alexei is, is it possible to convert FB engine to uci,?
ReplyDeleteXb I meant to type..
DeleteYes but requires full knowledge about the code and the two protocols. The change should be done on the source code. CT800 and Danasah are such cases, done by their authors.
DeleteThank you so much Alexei for Cfish 150218! Dynamic Contempt is very interesting...I'm interested about how they finally chose contempt = 18 over 20. Alexei's compiles are indeed faster; I am getting about 200nps more from his cfish than any other arm build as of late!
ReplyDeleteP.s. Alexei, were you able to find a solution to the PGO optimization problem?
ReplyDeleteYes.
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ReplyDeleteAlexei,can you compile CFish_Extended_160218?Thanks.
ReplyDeleteNew updated CT800 V1.20
ReplyDeleteAndroid version also
https://www.ct800.net/news.htm
New update Cheese
ReplyDeleteAlso Android version
http://cheesechess.free.fr/en/download.html
Thanks for both Authors for updating their chess engine.
It feel awesome to use them
Hi, Can anyone tell me how to get cuckoochess for android standalone.
ReplyDeleteThanks
It's written in Java. So don't expect to import it as a binary to Cfa or Droidfish. However there's a Cockoo chess app featuring Cockoo embedded in it, looking like Droidfish. Isvthis what you need?
DeleteOk thanks sir!
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