New Engine ? HoiChess

[Michael Yee]

http://www.hoicher.de/hoichess/

Note : I didn't find this myself--it's a tip from the exactachess forum...

Michael

[Dann Corbit]

ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/n ... ichess.zip

HoiChess 0.2.1

Hash table size: 1048576 entries (24 MiB)

White (1): xboard

st 99
new
post
go

1 35 0 1 1. Nc3
1 55 0 7 1. e4
1 55 0 20 1. e4
2 5 0 83 1. e4 e5
2 5 0 103 1. e4 e5
2 5 0 122 1. e4 e5
3 35 0 197 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3
3 35 0 658 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3
4 0 0 1457 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5
4 0 1 3119 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5
5 35 1 5908 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3
5 35 6 13677 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3
6 6 17 38653 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Bd6
6 6 29 67159 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bc4
7 25 54 127907 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Bd6 4. d4
7 25 117 259093 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Bd6
8 20 228 541685 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nxd4
8 20 509 1417089 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4
9 19 1172 3227318 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 Bc5 4. Na4
9 19 3134 7704679 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3
10 15 7349 19026889 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bc5
move e2e4

[Dann Corbit]

Hoichess needed a buffering fix.

Now, it just seems to hang while thinking. I think the problem is that it does not understand time control correctly.

[Dann Corbit]

Hoichess only works on "seconds per move" time control.

I started adding a level command, but I have not put in the machinery to use the 3 elements of the level command yet

[Jim Ablett]

Crashes instantly on my AMD-XP-M / XP pro system.
(yes, I have the included pt-threads dll in folder).

Jim.

[Jim Ablett]

Crashes instantly on my AMD-XP-M / XP pro system.
(yes, I have the included pt-threads dll in folder).

Loads ok from the console/command line, but
when I try to load it in Winboard/Arena it crashes with
error >

The instruction at "0x0040f212" referenced memory at "0x00000003". The memory could not be "read".

I ran it with and earlier an pthreads dll and it didn't crash, but it failed
to work properly.

Jim.

[Pablo]

To Dann:
I tried Hoichess with Winboard 4.27 in 2 PC with Windows98, one with Pentium III and another with Intel Celeron 748Mhz. In both Hoichess crash.
The winboard.debug file is as follows:

"recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal
WinBoard 4.2.7 + Hoichess021
Reset(1, 0) from gameMode 0
recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal
GameEnds(0, (null), 2)
StartChildProcess (dir="c:\wbrd\g-o\hoichess") Hoichess021
720 >first : xboard
protover 2
830 <first : HoiChess 0.2.1
830 <first :
830 <first : Hash table size: 1048576 entries (24 MiB)
830 <first :
830 <first : White (1):
830 <first : feature ping=1 setboard=1 time=0 sigint=0 analyze=1 myname="HoiChess 0.2.1" colors=0 done=1
830 >first : accepted ping
830 >first : accepted setboard
830 >first : accepted time
830 >first : accepted sigint
830 >first : accepted analyze
830 >first : accepted myname
830 >first : accepted colors
830 >first : accepted done
830 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
830 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
830 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
830 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
830 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
830 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
830 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
830 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
880 >first : new
random
880 >first : level 40 10 0
880 >first : post
880 >first : hard
880 >first : easy
880 >first : ping 1
880 <first : Error (command not implemented): random
880 <first : Error (command not implemented): level
Fatal Error: Error: first chess program (Hoichess021) exited unexpectedly
GameEnds(0, (null), 2)
15550 >first : force
15550 >first : ping 2
15550 >first : quit"

It looks Hoichess do not recognize some winboard command.
At the DOS GUI Hoichess plays OK.

Any comment is wellcome.
Regards,
Pablo

[Dann Corbit]

Hoichess does not understand the level command (which is obviously fundamental).

It will take some work before it is a smoothly playing winboard engine.

[Holger Ruckdeschel]

Hi,

HoiChess runs very well unter Xboard/Linux (see below). Is there any major difference between Xboard and Winboard? Even if so, HoiChess should not crash if it receives the level command. So this must be a Windows-specific problem.

Regards,
Holger


xboard 4.2.6 + hoichess
Reset(1, 0) from gameMode 0
recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal
GameEnds(0, (null), 2)
StartChildProcess (dir="") hoichess
299 >first : xboard
protover 2
492 <first : HoiChess 0.2.1
492 <first :
492 <first : Hash table size: 1048576 entries (20 MiB)
492 <first :
493 <first : White (1):
493 <first : feature ping=1 setboard=1 time=0 sigint=0 analyze=1 myname="HoiChess 0.2.1" colors=0 done=1
494 >first : accepted ping
494 >first : accepted setboard
494 >first : accepted time
500 >first : accepted sigint
500 >first : accepted analyze
501 >first : accepted myname
501 >first : accepted colors
501 >first : accepted done
502 >first : new
random
503 >first : level 40 5 0
503 >first : hard
503 >first : ping 1
540 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
541 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
541 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
541 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
541 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
542 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
542 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
542 <first : Error (command not implemented): accepted
543 <first : Error (command not implemented): random
543 <first : Error (command not implemented): level
593 <first : pong 1
3377 >first : e2e4
8402 <first : move e7e5

[Guenther Simon]

Yes it has nothing to do with the level or other unknown
WB commands, because HoiChess crashes here too, even
after disabling those WB commands for HoiChess.
It works in a DOS box though.
(WIN2KSP4 on a PIV 2.67Ghz.)

Guenther

[Dann Corbit]

At some point I will get back to it and fix it.

Too busy now.

[Pablo]

At some point I will get back to it and fix it.

Too busy now.

Hi Dann
Any news about fixing Hoichess.?
Best,
Pablo