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February 25, 2018

Android UCI engine update: Cheese 1.9.2

Another bugfix update by the author, Patrice Duhamel. No ELO change expected.

WHAT'S NEW (17-Feb-2018):
Version 1.9.2
- fix engine not responding in pondering mode since version 1.9
- fix illegal moves in pondering when the search ends before receiving message from the interface
- fix an error with Arena/UCI when pondering is enable, always return a move to ponder (if possible)
- fix a problem when starting next tournament game in Fritz GUI

GET Cheese 1.9.2 for arm7 and arm8

You can also visit CHEESE HOMEPAGE for more info.

126 comments:

Rahul said...

Sir Gurcan,

It has been long time since you haven't updated chesstroid.

Would you please update?

Everyone is waiting for this.

Paulzzz said...

I hope Gurcan will still update Chesstroid..

Unknown said...

Back in 2017 Chesstroid was quiet in July and some thought it was dead:

AnonymousAugust 4, 2017 at 5:50 PM
No update in Chesstroid since July 2!?...
Is this blog dead now?...

Reply
Replies

Gurcan UckardesAugust 4, 2017 at 10:07 PM
No. Just a regular break before a stormy comeback. The longer the break, the heavier the comeback :-)

Reply

So perhaps there is hope still..although this time the break is 4+ months so far...

Rahul said...

Hi Lazar, Karim and paulzzz

One tried by me to keep chestroid alive
and if you want SF and Cfish use javialo compilation from play store.



There is Ethereal, latest compilation by Andrew.

Test it against others engines or play himself. It become much stronger now.

Enjoy this,
ARMv7 - 32bit:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hqgooy0fmrmc6i0/Ethereal10.38-x32-armv7?dl=0

ARMv8 - 64bit:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r0zg9tcybcd4pt6/Ethereal10.38-x64-armv8?dl=0

I share my email address, so we will be in touch in future if this blog will ever disappeared.

Here is my email- rahulsrivastav092@gmail.com

Paulzzz said...

Thank you very much Rahul!

Karim said...

Hey Rahul thanks man, does Andrew has a blog IR page to be visited?

Karim said...

Hey Rahul thanks man, does Andrew has a blog or a page to be visited?

Paulzzz said...

Hello Karim I think here is the page of Andrew Grant.You can download Ethereal 10 for Android and the past versions:
https://github.com/AndyGrant/Ethereal/releases

Karim said...

Thanks Paulzzz. I thought Andrew compiles many engines as our Alexei does.

Unknown said...

Thanks Rahul! Good to have latest ethereal

Rahul said...

Hi Lazar,

Made a tournament between ginkgo and Ethereal.

Ethereal is much stronger now.

Rahul said...

Hi lazar,
See,latest TCEC tournament result.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1suaFS6SzEGOE8nO2iVYMyOzWeWAIyBUn/view?usp=drivesdk

Unknown said...

That looks very impressive yeah.of course we meed more games but looks strong still!

Unknown said...

That looks very impressive yeah.of course we meed more games but looks strong still!

Paulzzz said...

Hi Guys,armFish and mateFish has an update,get them at:https://github.com/lantonov/asmFish?files=1

Karim said...

Arasan is updated to 2.1 ,,,vajolet is to 2.6,,,and also Greko Has been updated, but unfortunately we are waiting for Alexei to compile it to android.

Rahul said...

Hi all,

Enjoy the latest Arasan by Sir Alexie.

It was on talkchess.com

https://app.box.com/s/zry3anqkiq5d3iwfwj34xq9gyflogijd

Paulzzz said...

Thank you for sharing Rahul,is that Sir Alexei our very own Alexei Chernakoff?

Rahul said...

Yes paulzzz, I am 100% sure.

Paulzzz said...

I hope Sir Alexei still keep on posting here with his new compilations.

Paulzzz said...

Just keep us informed Rahul for new updates by Sir Alexei.Thank you.

Karim said...
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Karim said...

Paulzzz see! I told you that Alexei is angry and you didn't agree..

Unknown said...

Very nice! Thanks for finding and sharing the Arasan link Karim ;-)

Unknown said...

Thanks for the link Rahul! I mistakenly thanked Karim at first but then realised you had actually shared the link.But still its good to see Karim posting

Paulzzz said...

He is probably just waiting for Gurcan to update Chesstroid.

Rahul said...

Hi all,

Enjoy the Xiphos.
If you need SF and Cfish then go through javialo.

It doesn't compile by sir Alexie.

And sorry, I have only arm8.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cGBLadHfY4hS8_0FulALriKhHKjOAUbB/view?usp=drivesdk

Enjoy!

Rahul said...

Hi,

I have tcec12 pgn too. It's supefinal opening.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16tyvFmODPvVTuyBVUE1tt_3GxAOGxYWq/view?usp=drivesdk

Rahul said...

As, we know that sir Alexie compilation always have better, faster and stronger but, unfortunately, we doesn't have his compilation and it's very sad.

We only hope that he will provide us his compilation soon.


Hi sir Gurcan and Alexie please come back as soon as possible.

Thanks!

Karim said...

Hi friends!
Here I came with a soon update of eBa2900elo opening book but this time 14 moves depth per each line,with its pgn and binary formats, I hope someone will googling and be redirected here and get benefits from it,
Thanks
Here is binary format(https://www.mediafire.com/file/3rk3v5b5ru6sowu/EBA-2900elo-p17953-m14.7z/file)
And here is pgn format (https://www.mediafire.com/file/24n5gnenukbuu75/EBA-2900elo-m14-pgn.7z/file)

Paulzzz said...

Thank you for sharing Karim!

Paulzzz said...

Thank you Rahul for sharing Xiphos!

Karim said...

Hi guys,good morning
Today I prepared for you TSEC season 9 into binary book,
All comments and tags were removed from pgn
Book depth:14moves per each line
Book position: 804
Here are both pgn and binary into one 7zip file..
https://www.mediafire.com/file/p5310rk3q6wqqao/TSEC-Season9-p804-m14.7z/file

Rahul said...

Awesome Karim,
I was waiting for this.
A cool thanks friend.

Karim said...

Rahul I'm also preparing TSEC season 10, just wait for it, lol will soon be released...

Karim said...

Hi to everyone !
Me just prepared TSEC 10/TSEC 11/and TSEC 12 Successfully.
So first of all, lets start it with TSEC 10 for today
Book depth 12 moves per each line
Book made of 1584 cleaned positions
Both pgn and binary into one 7zip file, here is the link,

https://www.mediafire.com/file/vjxz4o42dfwaf4q/TSEC-Season10-p1584-m12.7z/file

Rahul said...

Thanks Karim!

Paulzzz said...

Awesome Karim,thank you very much!:)

Karim said...

Good morning everyone !
As usually, today is TSEC,s 11 day, lol
I mean I'm gonna share with you TSEC11 opening book which is made of 936 purified pgn games
This time its move depth is 30 plies, means 30 half moves,
Get the link here,
https://www.mediafire.com/file/quoek30lf12vnh5/TSEC-Season11-p936-m15.7z/file

Paulzzz said...

Thank you again Karim.You made the book deeper!I'm already testing your books in CEPA by Javiolo in Engine vs Engine games...

Unknown said...

Karim, i really appreciate all your efforts in sharing your opening books etc on this blog! Thank You for keeping chesstroid alive my friend AND also thanks to Rahul and Paulzzz.Lets hope that Android chess lovers come here more often :-)

Karim said...

Its a pleasure !

There are more books on the way,just wait for it,
By the way does anyone have an idea on how to use NDK, I'm planning to compile engines,just for educational purposes

Paulzzz said...

Thanks Karim your opening books are valuable.Regarding NDK,I didn't have experience on using it but it's good to know that you're also planning to compile engines.Hoping that someone will tell us here...

Anonymous said...

Hi Karim,

Read carefully here, may be it can help you.

http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=67862


And thanks for the tcec book.

Anonymous2
Thanks!

Rahul said...

Hi friends,

Enjoy the latest dchess. it is very strong and only 35 elo weaker than ginkgo.

In this have some new and old engines.

https://www71.zippyshare.com/v/nQvKXZVP/file.html

Rahul said...

See this, defenchess (sctr) vs ginko.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RLgSjq_ZY0jl59OXiBmAUJSWq-3Qj0gV/view?usp=drivesdk

Karim said...

thanks rahul for links
thanks paul
thanks lazar,and u r welcome
thanks anonymous for informative link
but it was for advance, I am a novice yet,
i need a practical lesson lol,
infact i thought that NDK will a graphical software.
anyway my tablet crushed it won't start
so for today
i am gonna share with you TSEC12 from my laptop,
book depth: 12moves
book positions: 715-positions..

http://www.mediafire.com/file/f7kguerfd5b2y9c/TSEC-Season12-p715-m12.7z/file

Anonymous said...

Hi Rahul,

Great bro, it's amazing that a newbie engine is very close to ginko. It's great.Thanks for the engine,when the gurcan and alexie silent then you provide us engine,yet we are waiting for both gurcan and alexie.
I think they will come back in 2019.
Anonymous2!

Anonymous said...

Hi Karim,
Thanks for the tcec12.
For compiling engine you can ask for Rasmus,who is the author of ct800 engine.
He can tell you something deeply and fruitful. Do email him!
Anonymous2!!!!!

Paulzzz said...

Thank you Karim for TSEC Season 12 bin book!Thanks to Rahul too for sharing the latest engine,I hope that Sir Alexei and Gurcan returns!

Karim said...
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Karim said...

Good morning everyone !
You are all welcome, and its my pleasure.
For today's breakfast I wanted to bring an arena chess opening book to binary format, therefore I chose it from Chessowl blog,http://chessowl.blogspot.com/p/chess-engine-opening-books.html
Book title, HS-20moves 2.0, the author claims of 1,007,272 positions, but as I convert it to pgn, the amount differs a lot, means it is 48505 positions, so I made no chances in pgn and directly convert it to binary, here the link- https://www.mediafire.com/file/6acwl17ulztuhy7/HS-20moves.bin.7z/file , what make me more surprised is, the positions pgn aren't all 20 moves, there you can find 15moves in it, get pgn here -https://www.mediafire.com/file/qm2k85cun52ud5a/HS-20moves-p48505-pgn.7z/file ,
Still the bin book all reaches to 20 moves,I checked it myself, it's amazing

Unknown said...

Hi Rahul.Wanted to ask who compiled the engines in your link above? Very Nice!

Unknown said...

Hi Rahul.Wanted to ask who compiled the engines in your link above? Very Nice!

Rahul said...

Someone given this to me.
and Ethereal10.39 is 30 elo strong then ginkgo because it's better compilation.

Paulzzz said...

Wow this is a nice book.Thank you again Karim!

Karim said...

Good morning everyone !
I hope you have benefited from the binary books.
Here I'm again ready with a new compiled book of ARENA called (s-canbaz-v071__perfect)
Book depth:20 moves
Book Position: 35050 Positions
And I am not sure if I have included pgn into 7zip file
Please inform me, because this book was compiled somedays earlier
https://www.mediafire.com/file/dpnhmfrdx9tmgl8/s-canbaz-v071__perfect-p35050-m20.7z/file

Rahul said...

Latest etEthere is here.
http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67993&p=768413&sid=a963a20999b78faa1cb9e0d0b48d1d42#p768413

Karim said...

Hi Rahul
I think it is not yet compiled for android,

Rahul said...

Hi all,
I have tested Ethereal10.39 and it is better than Ethereal10.43, Ethereal 10.39 compiled better than 10.43.

You can know more with my test results and pgn and also via on talkchess.com.
Here is all game results and important pgn too. Now I have no flags problem as it is before. You can see my pgn too.
I hope if Alex reply on this time. He is also silent.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1tHWCyXBcapVW8ZAemUL_g-nGgtlLbci_

Rahul said...

Hi Karim, first two link on talkchess etherelarmv7 and armv8 is for android available. Check carefully please!

Rahul said...

Hi all,

Now just, I have tested andscasc vs Ethereal on my octacore device.
I think both are equal or may be ethereal strong. But not yet confirmed in just only 100 games.

(Games-100
TC-10s+0.1 hash-64 and threads-6)

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1A2M0jaCd86FZeyJTkB92fg3nk8Gc4wLM

Rahul said...

Hi all,
Don't ignore this please!

Please help Ethereal,
because by some unknown reason Ethereal is banned from "tcec season 13".

So, please make a request to tcec member for give the permission to play Ethereal in tcec13.
If Ethereal won't play then tcec become bored and will be same consequences as previous s12. Nothing new will be in world of chess without Ethereal.

Here is the Anton(tcec member) email, please mail him and make a request for Ethereal.
(anton.mihailov@gmail.com)

So, don't waste your time, as you read this then at once email Anton.

Thanks!

Karim said...

I did

Paulzzz said...

Hi Karim!Thank you very much for compiling the arena book by Sedat Canbaz,the file though has no pgn.
To Rahul thank you for sharing the link for Ethereal,I e-mailed Mr.Anton.

Paulzzz said...

Hi Karim,I have a request.Can you please convert the 2 pgn files into bin book?They are 8 moves GM LB.pgn & 8 moves v2.pgn culled from Vajolet Chess engine github page.Many thanks in advance!

Paulzzz said...

Here is the link:https://github.com/elcabesa/vajolet/tree/master/test

Karim said...

Yes Paulzzz I will if Jesus my Lord wished lol,

Rahul why don't you check it first if ethereal is participant of TSEC season, I saw your emotion and I mailed anton, then I released that ethereal 9.64 is already participant of TSEC 12, I didn't check TSEC 11..

Karim said...

Oh no I meant to type, realized

Rahul said...

Hi Karim and paulzzz,
Thanks for the support to Ethereal.

Actually, At this morning,On tcec chat room Andrew and the one member of tcec began to argue meaninglessly, and the member became angry and banned Andrew and his engine.

As you know that Ethereal is fast growing engine. Ethereal gain much elo in two years.

While others engines are stopped.

I am a big fan of Ethereal and Xiphos.

Great thanks!!!!

Unknown said...

Ah yeah i hope ethereal participates in tcec 13 .Latest ethereal 10.55 is incredible.It should be about the same strength or a little stronger than Andscacs 0.921(that Alexei ported for Android) in CCRL 40/4.So about 3200 + elo.Very impressive!!

Rahul said...

Hi Lazar and all,

Ethereal is +67 elo over andscasc.
I have made only 300 games and its much accurate. If anyone want to made more game,yet elo gain not be change.
An impressive progress done by Sir Andrew.
If we will get sir Alexie compilation than Ethereal will be more stronger.



https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1yR7MIRN8Pfvn2dBr2i-jp1RI_03p1MZy

Karim said...

hi everyone..
today's breakfast was cancelled due to paulzzz's request
so here I'm ready with requested opening book in binary format,
paulzzz catch it man,,your first book ,called(8moves_GM_LB)
here is the link
http://www.mediafire.com/file/udzd6ljsu0bpn7h/8moves_GM_LB.7z


and your second book called (8moves_v2)
here is the link
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ete553396dyei8i/8moves_v2.7z

plz report any error..thanks

Rahul said...

Hi all,

You must have to try Ethereal 10.53.
Here is the games pgn and also Ethereal 10.53 which is better than 10.55 because of it's better compilation and it is 40% faster than 10.55 which makes it stronger.

For tournament
Threads-1 hash-16 and tc- 10s+0.1

Enjoy the new and stronger engine.
Now, rapidroid will be changed completely because of xiphos,defenchess and specially due to Ethereal.

Great Ethereal
Thanks!

Rahul said...
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Rahul said...

Here is the link,
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1HdZ2zS3RaCXGj-raVvd3wCXgHXTAbPjb

Rahul said...

Great job Karim thanks!

Paulzzz said...

Thank you Karim for converting the 2 pgn files into polyglot format!Good job!

Paulzzz said...

Thanks for Ethereal 10.53 Rahul,and I want to thank Karim for heeding my request.Let's keep posting...

Unknown said...

Yes rapidroid would be exciting but i suspect Gurcan hasnt been playing any test games at least not recently.We may not see another rapidroid for a long time...if ever !

Paulzzz said...

ArmFish and MateFish for Android updates here:https://github.com/lantonov/asmFish?files=1

Rahul said...

Thanks paulzzz!

Paulzzz said...

You're welcome!

Unknown said...

Hey everyone just saying hello.Any new engines or engine updates?

chysiddh14 said...

lots of updates but not for android
computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_engine_list

Rahul said...

Hi all,
Enjoy the Xiphos!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f31w1tieapgly94/Xiphos0.3.6-x64-armv8?dl=0

Karim said...

Good morning !
Life has many ups and downs ,who is heard of this idiom ?
Anyway in today's breakfast we gonna have d-grafen-v02__aeb opening book that I converted from abk arena books to binary format, infact this book was delayed for sharing due to gurcan's silence
BOOk DEPTH: 12moves
BOOK POSITION: 167,950 Positions
BOOK PACKED SIZE:8,03 MB (unpacked 22 MB)
Get the link below.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/s7u2nlcc3n4e15l/d-grafen-v02__aeb-p167950-m12.7z/file

Karim said...

Hey Rahul I need arm7

Rahul said...

Hi friend Karim,
Thanks for the book, but sorry, I have no arm7.I will try to manage arm7 next time.

Karim said...

Rahul! Thanks in advance, I have a question from you Rahul, are you a chess player of Indian chess federation ? Cause I saw this name in Bhopal chess event I think,

Paulzzz said...

Thank you for the polyglot book Karim!Yes life has ups and downs but what's more important is to be resilient and stand up everytime we fall...

Rahul said...

Hi all, enjoy the new version of K2.

https://github.com/serg-meus/k2/releases/091

Rahul said...

Hi karim,I am not a player of Indian chess federation, But I am a good chess player for human not for machine.

Karim said...

Rahul, thanks for the link, I think I saw andscacs was updated to 0.94 version, still we don't have 0.93 for android..

Karim said...

Hey all, Komodo 9 is free for Linux Windows and Mac, but unfortunately not yet for android. Why?

Rahul said...

Hi Karim, andscasc is closed source.
And Komodo9 is free for android on play store.

Rahul said...

Hi all, enjoy the latest Ethereal.
Here is the tournament result between Komodo8 Vs Ethereal. Ethereal has been made great progress.


https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=18ymsF-OXHXu1XZB7qhvaKHUKUNMUly6b

Paulzzz said...

Thank you for the latest Xiphos,Ethereal and K2 engines Rahul!Hoping to meet both of you and Karim in an actual Chess match someday!:)

Rahul said...

Hi all,
Try new STOCKFISH derivatives with new interesting idea.
Unfortunately, this is not running of naugat device.
Go through the site and download linuL binary which has arm7 for android.
Try and tell me if it's working for someone.

https://github.com/amchess/ShashChess/releases

Rahul said...

It is not working in my device.

Anonymous said...

Hi, it's not working for me too. I have Android Oreo.

Rahul said...

Hi all,
Pedone 1.8 has been updated.https://sites.google.com/site/pedonechess/

Rahul said...

Hi all,
Can anyone suggest me, how to use syzygy on cfa?

I want to use syzygy for Ethereal.

flither said...

I'm assuming you already have tablebases on your phone, if not download them from https://chess.cygnitec.com/tablebases/syzygy/wdl/5/ for example and unpack on your phone. If you already installed Ethereal, than clear it's options and run any new tourney with it. In the box where you chose engines options put full path of your Syzygy, on Android it will be /storage/emulated/0/"yourSyzygyFolderName" or /sdcard/"yourSyzygyFolderName"

Rahul said...

I put my path as here on cfa box option
/storage/emulated/0/nemo
On Nemo folder I have contained tablebases.

But, it shows ' found 0 tablebases'.
What I do now?

flither said...

Are the files in your Nemo/ folder have .rtbw and .rtbz extensions? There should be 290 files for 5-men Syzygy, around 1GB in size unpacked. I just checked newest Ethereal, tablebases work fine with it and with any other engine using Syzygy

flither said...

...and does anyone here have a contact with Alexei Chernakoff? He was unbeatable with his compiles for Android, faster than my PC :) Android chess is almost dead without this golden guy :(

flither said...

Good we have couple of programmers who know Android platform chess is a huge % of the users, and they make builds for Android. Kudos to Andy Grant (!), Rasmus Althoff (CT 800), author of Pedone Fabio Gobbato, Xiphos, Delocto and couple of others. The rest see Android as a "slow, unpopular" platform probably :)

Anonymous said...

Alexie has been disappeared from here and from talkchess.com. I wish, when we visit this site again we see alexie compilation here and say! God help us!
Come back Alexie, it has been too much time.

Rahul said...

Hi raff,
In my Nemo folder have .rtbw and .rtbz extension and 293 files total.

Rahul said...

Hi raff,
Please see my screen shot here and suggest me something.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mbEo_FOtMqJMKzOCXefaT7X_IPaOgfhX/view?usp=drivesdk

flither said...

You don't really need the first 3 files, they're for PC only, so it gives 290 files - seems ok. Maybe your Syzygy is under too many subfolders, I've got my files under /sdcard/DroidFish/rtb. Try to move your files to make the path look like this: /sdcard/syzygy/3-4-5/"all your rtbw and rtbz files"

Paulzzz said...

I have the email of Sir Alexei which dates back when Aprijal Pasaribu's blog was still active...

flither said...
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flither said...

I see Alexei was visiting russian 4pda forum today, so at least we know he's probably ok.
Well, the times are going, we had Jim Ablett, we had Aprijal, maybe Alex decided to leave compiling as well, who knows

Rahul said...

Hi raff,
A big thanks to you for help me.
Now, I am able to use sygyzy for droidfish and CFA.
Thanks!

flither said...

Glad I helped :)

stvs said...

raff1st1 are you sure u see alexei cherbakov at 4pda forum? can send any link?

flither said...

Yes, he was mainly writing in Droidfish thread, but stopped since a month ago. Here's the thread - http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=324262&st=780 . You need to register first to download anything, the last engine he posted is Cfish 060618

Paulzzz said...

Hi Sir,do you have the binaries of this Cfish?I have trouble registering on this site since I'm not adept in understanding Russian.Regards.

flither said...

Hi Paulzzz, no I don't anymore, but you know there's newer Cfish 20180616 build from Javiolo on Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.packs.cfishengine and 010718 shared by Rahul: https://www71.zippyshare.com/v/nQvKXZVP/file.html ? They're newer, but 10-15% slower unfortunately

flither said...

I could download Alexei build and share it here later, but I don't wanna install Dropbox, Google Drive, and register etc. I can send it to your e-mail maybe, and than you can share here if you want?

Paulzzz said...

Ok Raff please send the Cfish binaries by Sir Alexei in my email: mhoadievpachu1@gmail.com

flither said...

Sent

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