Hi Lo, On 12/02/11, scid-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
>Which engines would you advise me to add to SCID? Or is it better >to stick with the two that come with it,since i'm just starting >out in learning to use chess engines? I'm quite prepared to take >your suggestions on board. I use DeepShredder 11 with Scid. It seems to get sensible results in less time than other engines and is a decent opponent. I give it 13 seconds per move to annotate a game. I would prefer to specify a fixed depth (of 15 or so) but, as with most other chess programs, Scid doesn't appear to offer a way to do that. Currently Scid grinds away for the full 13 seconds even on forced moves and simple positions, but in complex middlegame positions 13 seconds is insufficent. Chess Assistant appears to have the technology to annotate to a fixed depth but the surrounding interface is so awful and restricting as to make it nearly useless and certainly not the technique of choice. Still, its encouraging that it seems to be possible. One heads up: yesterday I gave DeepShredder 21 seconds per move and it repeatedly crashed as soon as it left book opening, leaving Scid unresponsive. I killed the Scid processes and put it back to 13 seconds per move and it worked again. Update: I bumped DeepShredder's hash from 64 to 256 (meg?) and its now working with 21 seconds per move. I apologize that my procedures were unscientific and inconclusive. I very much like Joost's concept of increasing hash size with game time. Cheers, Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
