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mhonert / velvet-chess

:chess_pawn: Velvet Chess Engine - written in Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Ponder and/or FRC? #1

Closed CMCanavessi closed 2 years ago

CMCanavessi commented 2 years ago

Hi, great to see progress on the engine! It's almost "TCEC Ready" with the NNUE strength. Do you have plans to implement ponder and/or FRC support?

mhonert commented 2 years ago

Hi, thank you! Pondering is already on my todo-list. FRC could be interesting as well. I will probably not (yet) train a separate neural network for this mode, but basic support could be possible.

microsmeta commented 2 years ago

Hi Martin! Congratulations and thanks for Velvet 3.0.0. I have just started testing it in my SuperBlitz: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/freeware-against-commercial-chess-software-arena-3-5-1-vs-chessbase-fritz-17

And added your reference here: http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=78182&p=908430#p909451

Best regards, Alex

mhonert commented 2 years ago

Hi Alex, thank you! I will have a look at the results.

mhonert commented 2 years ago

I just added support for pondering, so it will be part of the next release.

CMCanavessi commented 2 years ago

Awesome! That's one less "to-do" on the list :D In my FRC tournament, I use 30 minutes + 5 seconds TM with ponder ON (1 thread), so that's great.

mhonert commented 2 years ago

I just released v3.1.0, which includes pondering support. FRC will probably be part of one of the next releases.

microsmeta commented 2 years ago

OK I try it

mhonert commented 2 years ago

I released v3.3.0, which adds support for FRC.

CMCanavessi commented 2 years ago

Awesome!

microsmeta commented 2 years ago

Thank you Martin, just downloaded and i will test it very soon :-)

Alex