Some days ago Juan Carlos Antón, head of UNED chess school , does give me permission to include tactical positions from the PDFs on the downloads of UNED web, which I consider very educational. The problem is there is no possibility of obtaining original fens. The solution to ease my work, has been to create something like an OCR of image positions, which at this specific case is working very well. Only three concepts are handled : mark, deduce, and learn. First, mark the board, the next step is to deduce, if there are errors the user corrects them manually and asked the program to learn from them. At the beginning there are quite a few errors, but less and less. To mark the Board a transparent window is launched that occupies the desk and lets see the PDF and select a position. It is selected with the mouse by dragging a corner to the other, and it is fitted with the arrow keys. At the end the Enter key is pressed to accept the selected and continue in the program wi...
Thanks a lot for the continous work!
ReplyDeleteThis program is such a wonderful tool and my constant companion (even though i'm using it with wine on linux :) )
It's great that you changed the Lucas-Elo Mode and that it works in this alpha.
I want to point out a detail that seems inconsistent to me:
Scrolling with the mouse-wheel is great, but inconsitently applied throughout the program. In the main window scrolling while over the board is inverse to scrolling when over the Movelist. In the Tutor-Boards the scrolling works, but not when analysing a move (doubleclicking on a move in movelist). The best integration i think would be to have one option that defines the direction that the scrolling does (rewind or forward in game) and to stick to that option throughout the program.
I am quite new to chess, so i'm mostly playing against the weakest engines like Tarrasch/Roce when i want to practise. Mostly i invent challenges to myself, like "Can i beat Roce Depth 1 in 3 Minutes?" and stuff like that. With the old LucasElo it was difficult for me to win against Gaia1, but i find Bikjump1 easier (even though it has higher Elo :) )
Thanks very very much for all your work Lucas and feel free to ask for help in graphical terms anytime.
Jojo B.
This morning I have changed scrolling with mouse to always follow the same direction. :)
DeleteEach engine has ist own weaks, I know Bikjump it is easy to win in a pawns final.
Nice! i hope that downscrolling goes forward in the game :P Thanks!
DeleteYes, in the same way that in the current pgn table.
DeleteWow!! I can't believe someone else made this comment during the same release. I just emailed you Lucas about this :-) .. thank you for the update!
Deleteoh and another thing i want to comment on is that i don't play the FicsElo/FideElo/Everest because of the non-stopping CPU calculation, which makes my CPU too hot.
ReplyDeleteI would like to play them though :)
I´ll try to add an option and don´t think while player thinks.
DeleteHey again!
ReplyDeletein LC10 alpha 7 adding Roce as an external engine gives an UCI-error. The same is true for the Homer 2.01 Engine ( http://homer-chess.com/ )
Roce works when used via the "internal engine" function, but as said cannot be added as an external one.
Loading Homer 2.01 works in 9.07b without any problem.
System here is Linux 64 (Manjaro, which is Arch Linux based) running LucasChess with latest wine 1.9.0
Ok after testing all the engines here is the list of which don't work as external:
Amyan, Chispa, Hamsters, Pawny, Polyglot, Roce, Ufim
The exact error message is:
"The file X.exe does not correspond to a UCI engine type."
I believe I have fixed it, problem is that don´t admit to run uci command more than one time.
DeletePolyglot is an utility to create/merge polyglot books.
Thank you very much.
DeleteIn Tournaments between Engines, is there a way to make it seconds per move instead of total time for each side in the whole game?
ReplyDeleteEditing each engine, and setting Maximum seconds to think.
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