Replace cutechess-cli by fast-chess in the worker?

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The Stockfish testing framework

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Replace cutechess-cli by fast-chess in the worker? #2106

Open vondele opened 1 month ago

vondele commented 1 month ago

https://github.com/Disservin/fast-chess is quite actively developed, and probably quite close to being feature complete.

Some advantages:

possible to use a direct drop in replacement
quickly builds from sources, no binary download needed, runs probably on many platforms.
able to deal with large concurrency and shorter TCs
some recent developments in there could help simplify worker code (e.g. pentamonial stat output possible)
fairly extensive testing has happened already

peregrineshahin commented 1 month ago

Another advantage I noticed is that it can be cloned and built on worker machine.. instead of dependency on https://github.com/official-stockfish/books .

vondele commented 1 month ago

(see bullet point 2 ;-) )

gahtan-syarif commented 1 month ago

fast-chess has an option to be built with cutechess output ( `make -j USE_CUTE' ) so no changes to the output parsing is necessary, though it still needs to be tested. same thing goes for the commands.

from what i found this is the only branch with fastchess available https://github.com/Disservin/fishtest/tree/fastchess , although this one is very outdated, maybe theres a newer one that im not aware of that can be shared here?

ghost commented 1 month ago

cutechess has maintained for more than 10 years.
fastchess has maintained for less than 1 year.

No one can guarantee that nothing will ever go wrong.