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Re: Stockfish 9 Released !
Reply #43 - 11/30/18 at 22:33:37
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I sent all the files to virustotal and they all came back clean. (Links to the results on the 'stockfish for analysis' page.) It must be your AV being cautious.
  
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Re: Stockfish 9 Released !
Reply #42 - 11/30/18 at 08:08:17
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proustiskeen wrote on 11/30/18 at 04:40:09:
Now that SF10 is out, I went ahead and made a similar C0 compile.

https://firstlookchess.com/blog/2018/11/29/stockfish-10-c0/


Thank you!

I had a slight install problem (windows 10, 64bit), when my virus application F-Secure didn't allow install. After I manually allowing the install, the engine is ok. Hopefully I do not get any problems because of that.
  
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Now that SF10 is out, I went ahead and made a similar C0 compile.

https://firstlookchess.com/blog/2018/11/29/stockfish-10-c0/

@TonyK, let me know if this 32 bit version works?
  
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Re: Stockfish 9 Released !
Reply #40 - 06/26/18 at 18:04:09
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Glad you found the compile useful, Brabo. It's not fancy - I don't know all the flags, bells and whistles to get the fastest thing imaginable - but it gets the job done.
  
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Re: Stockfish 9 Released !
Reply #39 - 06/25/18 at 11:56:38
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I just published an article about the contempt on my blog: https://chess-brabo.blogspot.com/2018/06/contempt.html

One thing which (slightly) surprised me about this contempt is that the impact seems only to happen for the first 20 moves. I guess the code of the program is written in such way that the bonus (= contemptvalue) is only given above a number of pieces on the board. Once some pieces are exchanged then no bonus can be received anymore and the effect of the contempt disappears. Probably the developers saw no gain of rating anymore in an active contempt for positions with few (or below x number of) pieces on the board.
  
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Reply #38 - 05/19/18 at 17:11:51
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an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 05/15/18 at 13:54:48:
Yes there is this option in ChessBase, but the trick is getting it to be the default when you load the engine, as opposed to changing it each time you load the engine. Read back through this thread, GMTonyKosten gave a simple method for a new engine install, and I gave a slightly harder method for an existing engine.


well I have set my existing engine contempt to 0 and it seems to stay --> options --> engines --> select engine --- advanced

I hope I am right in doing this like, trusting you lot  Wink
  
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Reply #37 - 05/16/18 at 11:45:31
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an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 05/14/18 at 15:08:45:
Contempt is for practical play, where the engine only plays one side. In analysis mode, we use the engine to examine both sides. When the engine switches from looking at white candidates to looking at black candidates (e.g. spacebar), it will also switch from "contempt for black" to "contempt for white" - a swing in evaluation of 2*contempt for any "normal" move. It's confusing.


ah, that's perhaps why I've found it to be so volatile.

an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 03/02/18 at 02:45:39:
Find the .uci file and add the following line to the [OPTIONS] section:
Contempt=0


sorted, thanks Smiley
  
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Reply #36 - 05/15/18 at 13:54:48
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Yes there is this option in ChessBase, but the trick is getting it to be the default when you load the engine, as opposed to changing it each time you load the engine. Read back through this thread, GMTonyKosten gave a simple method for a new engine install, and I gave a slightly harder method for an existing engine.
  
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Reply #35 - 05/15/18 at 10:32:49
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an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 05/14/18 at 15:08:45:
Contempt is for practical play, where the engine only plays one side. In analysis mode, we use the engine to examine both sides. When the engine switches from looking at white candidates to looking at black candidates (e.g. spacebar), it will also switch from "contempt for black" to "contempt for white" - a swing in evaluation of 2*contempt for any "normal" move. It's confusing.


It certainly is confusing. So in Chessbase UCI engine there is an option to set contempt to zero?
  
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Contempt is for practical play, where the engine only plays one side. In analysis mode, we use the engine to examine both sides. When the engine switches from looking at white candidates to looking at black candidates (e.g. spacebar), it will also switch from "contempt for black" to "contempt for white" - a swing in evaluation of 2*contempt for any "normal" move. It's confusing.
  
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Reply #33 - 05/14/18 at 13:47:14
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So its better to not have any contempt factor (i.e. set to zero)?

Are we sure on this?
  
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Re: Stockfish 9 Released !
Reply #32 - 03/28/18 at 18:43:16
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I still wonder what rating it will reach at the end (on a given hardware of course). Obviously it can improve yet in some kinds of positions (queen vs. 3 pieces & so on...).
  
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Re: Stockfish 9 Released !
Reply #31 - 03/02/18 at 10:06:04
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brabo wrote on 02/27/18 at 16:46:17:
each time I switch between engines the default setting is restored and I have to do it over again.


I decided to download the 'stock' Stockfish 9 for Windows, set the contempt factor to 0 when creating the UCI and this works fine ... and the contempt factor appears to stay at 0 on my machine whenever I change engines!
I've no idea what the problem was before, maybe the ZIP file was corrupted somewhere along the line?
  
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Re: Stockfish 9 Released !
Reply #30 - 03/02/18 at 06:03:21
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proustiskeen wrote on 03/02/18 at 00:42:13:
if you put a 32 bit exe in 'Program Files' instead of 'Program Files x86' perhaps the OS balks?

Nope. I tried it with your 32-bit stockfish and it ran fine.

Based on TD's and GMTonyKosten's results, I would say that someone tampered with your first effort... Sad
  
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Re: Stockfish 9 Released !
Reply #29 - 03/02/18 at 03:06:22
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I was testing the ChessBase 14 GUI with Stockfish 9, using the same random position as in the command-line session earlier ... position after 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Na6. There was nothing unexpected in my results:

Depth Score Bestmove "Engine" (Option) 
30 1.41 3.Qxe5+ "Stockfish 9 64" (Contempt=20) 
30 1.13 3.Qxe5+ "Stockfish 9 64" (Contempt=0) 
30 1.18 3.Bxa6 "Stockfish 9 64 C0" 

But since I was online, ChessBase also fed the position to some cloud engines. Be forewarned, it looks like the cloud versions of Stockfish are also using the contempt factor:

Depth Score Bestmove "Engine"   
33 1.35 3.Qxe5+ "Stockfish 9" 
27 1.48 3.Qxe5+ "Stockfish 180218" 
26 1.05 3.Bxa6 "Komodo 9.02 64-bit" 
26 1.04 3.Qxe5+ "Komodo 10.2 64-bit" 

  
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