Android tournament with longer time controls

-
The list of UCI and XBoard engines for Android is getting longer, and I am pondering about a more serious tournament at longer time controls in Chess for Android. As a first step, I tested all available Android binaries. The list is shown below. An "X" indicates that the engine has trouble running in Chess for Android (if you are the engine author and are interested in fixing this, please contact me for details).

Next, I probably do a few quick tournaments to divide the engine in groups by strength, followed by tournaments at longer time control. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in participating, if you don't know how to compile your engine for Android (ARM), or if you have good ideas about the format of this tournament. I am not really an experienced tournament manager, but merely do this for fun to get an idea of the relative strength of these engines.

apilchess-106-ja           X    U. Lorenz, C. Donninger 
bikjump1.8                      Aart J.C. Bik 
bikjump2.1                      Aart J.C. Bik 
cassandre-026-ja           X    Jean-Francois Romang, et al. 
chess for android               Aart J.C. Bik 
critter-12-arm                  Richard Vida 
cyrano-061-b17-ja          X    Harald Johnsen 
daydreamer-075-ja               Aaron Becker 
diablo-051b-ja                  Marcus Prewarski 
diablo-501-ja                   Marcus Prewarski 
dirty-android              X    Andres Valverde 
doublecheck1.1                  Lucas Braesch 
doublecheck1.2                  Lucas Braesch    
doublecheck1.3.1                Lucas Braesch 
fairymax48q                     H.G. Muller 
garbochess3                     Gary Linscott 
garbochess-3-ja                 Gary Linscott 
gaviota0.80                     Miguel A. Ballicora 
gaviota0.82beta                 Miguel A. Ballicora 
gaviota0.83.0.3                 Miguel A. Ballicora 
gaviota-android-v0.83           Miguel A. Ballicora 
gaviota-android-v0.84           Miguel A. Ballicora 
gnuchess-5.07.153.3b            Michel van den Bergh, et al. 
gnuchess-5.07.170b.5b           Michel van den Bergh, et al. 
gnuchess-5.07.173b-android      Michel van den Bergh, et al. 
greko8.0                        Vladimir Medvedev 
IvanHoe-999947c                 Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, et al. 
IvanHoe-999947c-robbo           Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, et al. 
jazz-444-ja                     Evert Glebbeek 
jazz-uci-501-ja                 Evert Glebbeek 
komodo-13-ja                    Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman 
komodo201-ab                    Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman 
komodo203-ab                    Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman 
komodo-203-ja                   Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman 
komodo2-ab                      Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman 
komodo3-ab                      Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman 
pepito-159-ja                   Carlos del Cacho 
redqueen095                     Ben-Hur Carlos Vieira Langoni Jr. 
redqueen098                     Ben-Hur Carlos Vieira Langoni Jr. 
redqueen-098-ja                 Ben-Hur Carlos Vieira Langoni Jr. 
robbolito0085e4l                Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, et al 
robbolito0085g3l                Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, et al 
rocinante-101-ja           X    Antonio Torrecillas 
rotor0.6a                       Jan Brouwer 
rotor-04-ja                     Jan Brouwer 
simplex-097-ja                  Antonio Torrecillas 
sissa-20-ja                     Christophe J. Mandin 
stockfish_crab1                 modified by Adam Kleng 
stockfish1.8                    Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski 
stockfish1.9                    Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski 
stockfish2.0                    Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski 
stockfish2.1                    Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski 
stockfish-21-android-ja         Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski 
stockfish-211-android-ja        Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski 
suff-03a-ja                X    Clemens Pruell 
sungorous-14-ja            X    Pablo Vazquez 
toga2                           Thomas Gaksch, Fabien Letouzey 
umax48w                         H.G. Muller 
zct032500                       Zach Wegner 
zeta-dva-0202-ja           X    Srdja Matovic 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Checkers Move Generation

-
I was able to make a small improvement in the checkers move generator (written in Java for the Android SDK). The following table shows run times of several perft depths before and after optimization when run on the emulator (which should mimic actual run times on the phone quite well). DEPTH #LEAF NODES ORIGINAL OPTIMIZED TIME TIME ==================================== 7 179740 2.9s 1.9s 8 845931 14.2s 9.7s 9 3963680 66.3s 45.6s 10 18391564 294.6s 208.7s P.S. Runtimes for a C++ checkers move generator on a 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo are given at my checkers page .
Read more

Connecting Chess for Android to a Remote Server

-
Image
I have received several questions on how to connect Chess for Android running on an Android device (e.g. a phone) as client to a remote chess server (e.g. a powerful desktop), so I decided to write a small document with detailed instructions. What you will need: The server software from Bernhard Wallner's chess utilities , suited for your server's operating system (if, say, your desktop runs Windows, you will need to download the Windows version). You do not need to download the client software in this case. The network enabled version of Chess for Android . On the server, start the engine server software, and construct a new row for every engine you want to run remotely. Assign a name, port number, and select the full path to each engine binary (an executable that runs on the server). You can also supply command line options for starting the engine. Check the active checkboxes and click start when done. This yields something similar to the screenshots below. Here, I have s...
Read more

Connecting with the DGT Board

-
Image
After all the fun I had connecting Chess for Android with the Millennium  over Bluetooth, I was curious if I could provide similar support for the DGT electronic chess boards. Some of these have Bluetooth capabilities, most use USB connections, and some older models, like the one I have, still use the RS-232 connector. To my pleasant surprise, by combining the original serial cable of DGT with a USB-to-serial cable and a female-USB-to-USB-C cable, I was able to get an actually working connection between my DGT board and my tablet or phone. Next was implementing support in Chess for Android. Luckily, DGT kindly shared the protocol documentation with me, and after a fun weekend of hacking, Chess for Android now proudly supports DGT electronic chess boards as well.
Read more