New Zappa Version Ready for Download

[Roger Brown]

Hello all,

This is an update. On my lowly Pentium III at home it crashes after about ten seconds.

Sob.

Later.

Watch your language, Roger ...

Just Kidding

Regards
Dave

David Dahelm you are beyond redemption!



I cannot believe you!

I got a good laugh out of it. You are sharp.

Later.

[Anthony Cozzie]

Wolf: Would you mind trying again with only 1 thread?

SMP support is just buggy on windows still

Also: I think I may have found the problem with the tablebase crashes <crosses fingers>

Anyway, I'll try (again, sigh) to compile an athlon friendly version of things tomorrow. The problem here is that everything works fine on my system, but when I try other operating systems/processors/protocols things aren't as well debugged

anthony

[WolfV]

Anthony,

I did try Zappa with only one thread. Runs very well, no problems there. In my previous try, on the dual Xeon, I had disabled the tablebases access first though, so that couldn't have been the problem.

Anyway, Zappa runs OK with only one thread, no need to worry. But, it won't run on my Athlon notebook ( as you are already aware of...

Thanks for your very strong program!

regards

[Jim Ablett]

Hi Anthony,

Please don't be offended by me asking this (things like this can be overlooked sometimes) but,

Is SSE2 enabled?
P3/AthlonXP only support as you know SSE.

Regards
Jim.

[Anthony Cozzie]

I sent Volker some new compiles of Zappa; hopefully one of them works

anthony

[Volker Pittlik]

I sent Volker some new compiles of Zappa; hopefully one of them works

anthony

Unfortunately not for me. Those who want to try can down load them here:
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_1.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_2.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_3.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_4.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_5.zip


Volker

[Jim Ablett]

Anthony,
Could you post your makefile up here so we can have a look at your compiler options?

Jim

[Anthony Cozzie]

I'm not using a makefile. Zappa#1 on that list is built with the absolute default options for a new project (release mode) in Visual Studio.NET. This is why I'm positively stumped.

Anyway, tomorrow I'm gonig to make a cygwin build where I can specify the architecture explicitly. It'll probably be 20% slower or so, but whatever. Its an obsolete processor and a crappy operating system

anthony

[Jim Ablett]

When Zappa crashes my Microsoft Visual C debugger kicks in - here's the info.

Loaded 'C:\My Downloads\Archive\Games\chess\engines\zappa_4\zappa_4.exe', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\user32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\gdi32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\advapi32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\rpcrt4.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\apphelp.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\version.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
The thread 0xDB0 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The program 'C:\My Downloads\Archive\Games\chess\engines\zappa_4\zappa_4.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

Maybe of use to you.

Jim.

[Jim Ablett]

I think you need to add the missing entries in the .dsp project file
This is what I get when I compile mscp with Visual C++:

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LINK32=xilink6.exe
# ADD BASE LINK32 kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib /nologo /subsystem:console /debug /machine:I386 /pdbtype:sept
# ADD LINK32 kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib /nologo /subsystem:console /debug /machine:I386 /pdbtype:sept

Jim

[Gábor Szots]

Hello all,

This is an update. On my lowly Pentium III at home it crashes after about ten seconds.

Sob.

Later.

Watch your language, Roger ...

Just Kidding

Regards
Dave

Wrong forum, David!!

[David Weller]

Hi all,
Please forgive my ignorance, but is zappa a windows app. or console program?

I ask only because, those link errors remind me of the ones I got once when I failed to identify my project properly as a console app

Again, forgive me if I am so very far off base ....

[Pablo]

I tested in Winboard the five Zappa compiles in 2 PC with Windows 98SE, one with a P3 CPU and the other with P4.
They did not work ,all of them exit from Winboard after some minutes.
Try to find some friend of your confidence to make a more standard type of compilation.
Best ,
Pablo

I sent Volker some new compiles of Zappa; hopefully one of them works

anthony

Unfortunately not for me. Those who want to try can down load them here:
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_1.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_2.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_3.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_4.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_5.zip


Volker

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

This is an update. On my lowly Pentium III at home it crashes after about ten seconds.

Sob.

Later.

Watch your language, Roger ...

Just Kidding

Regards
Dave

Wrong forum, David!!

AHEM ...

[Jim Ablett]

My guess from looking at the debug output, is that it's maybe linking as a 64-bit app instead of 32bit.

[Anthony Cozzie]

What link errors? If I was having link errors I wouldn't even be able to create an executable, and if Windows wasn't able to dynamically link in the dlls, it wouldn't run.

anthony

[WolfV]

Zappa 0.80b2 beat Crafty 10.5-9.5 in a blitz match (G/5). They both ran under the Fritz GUI, the Crafty version was ChessBase native 19.17, whilst Zappa was set up as a UCI engine. Both used the Power Book 2002.

Nice result for Zappa -- by just viewing some randomly chosen games, I'd venture to say that Zappa is probably at least 50 points stronger than Crafty at long time controls. Of course, I could be wrong there.

Good job, Anthony.

regards.

[Johan Havegheer]

Zappa 0.80b2 beat Crafty 10.5-9.5 in a blitz match (G/5). They both ran under the Fritz GUI, the Crafty version was ChessBase native 19.17, whilst Zappa was set up as a UCI engine. Both used the Power Book 2002.

Nice result for Zappa -- by just viewing some randomly chosen games, I'd venture to say that Zappa is probably at least 50 points stronger than Crafty at long time controls. Of course, I could be wrong there.

Good job, Anthony.

regards.

But i still don't have a working version for my famous 'Leiden' Machine
(AMDXP2800 @ 2.15Ghz)

Best
Johan

[Volker Pittlik]

...
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_1.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_2.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_3.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_4.zip
http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa/temp/zappa_5.zip

These downloads doesn't work anymore, because they don't work and increase my bandwidth.

OT: Maybe I'm not online in the next days. My CPU-fan has decided to switch off if chess programs are running. Caused by this surprising behaviour I've observed that the automatic system shut-down feature of my motherboard works fine .

Regards

Volker

[Jim Ablett]

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Loaded 'C:\My Downloads\Archive\Games\chess\engines\zappa_4\zappa_4.exe', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\user32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\gdi32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\advapi32.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\rpcrt4.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\apphelp.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\version.dll', no matching symbolic information found.
The thread 0xDB0 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The program 'C:\My Downloads\Archive\Games\chess\engines\zappa_4\zappa_4.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0). 

Hi Anthony,
I take it you're compiling on a 64 bit machine. Looks like you're gonna need to compile on a 32-bit one.

Jim.