SmarThink

Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:20 am by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:20 am by

SmarThink, an UCI/WB compatible chess engine by Sergei S. Markoff written in plain C. The engine contains a lot of knowledge to guide the search, and has an aggressive attacking style. SmarThink uses original techniques in search and evaluation based on complex analysis including the use of ideas of Mikhail Botvinnik. SmarThink played various tournaments in Russia, and became Russian computer chess champion in 2004, CIS computer chess champion at the CCCCISC 2005, and third at the CCCCISC 2008 behind WildCat and Strelka. New version, 1.40 (r2040) is free. Sorry, at the moment, only single-processor Intel x64/AVX version is available.

SmarThink 1.40 (r2040)

http://genes1s.net/smarthink.html

Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:31 am by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:31 am by

Engine will not work unless you insert Authors name. I'd love to test it but it will NOT run in Fritz GUI without the authors name so if that is what your running it in don't bother to download because it will not work without Authors name. I'll wait on the update. redface

Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:03 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:03 pm by

@sharpov wrote:Engine will not work unless you insert Authors name. I'd love to test it but it will NOT run in Fritz GUI without the authors name so if that is what your running it in don't bother to download because it will not work without Authors name. I'll wait on the update.

Code:: id author Sergei S. Markoff

This version is for AVX CPUs only. What is yr CPU?

Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:39 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:39 pm by

It's updated:

Code:: x32, x64/SSE3, x64/AVX

Download

Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:11 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:11 pm by

@majortom wrote:It's updated:

Code:

x32, x64/SSE3, x64/AVX

Download

Does not work under Fritz GUI, what i do? sad

Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:17 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:17 pm by

the 32 bit is working!

I haven't tested it under any GUIs
but the exe executable alone works well

the last smarthink version was released like 10 years ago

and it is a huge comeback! thumb up

Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:19 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:19 pm by

Andres wrote:
Does not work under Fritz GUI, what i do?

Works well on my Fritz.
What is yr CPU?

Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:27 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:27 pm by

@majortom wrote:

Andres wrote:
Does not work under Fritz GUI, what i do?

Works well on my Fritz.
What is yr CPU?

Intel Xeon E5-2680 and Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit.

Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:33 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:33 pm by

TC 60"+1"
i7-3960x
1-core
ponder off
colours reversed openings
128 mb hash

Code:: Program Elo + - Games Score Av.Op. Draws 1 SmarThink 1.40 : 2984 40 39 200 59.8 % 2916 34.5 % 2 SmarThink 1.20 : 2916 39 40 200 40.2 % 2984 34.5 %

Code:: 1 SmarThink 1.40 : 2984 200 (+ 85,= 69,- 46), 59.8 % 2 SmarThink 1.20 : 2916 200 (+ 46,= 69,- 85), 40.2 %

Games

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Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:35 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:35 pm by

Andres wrote:

@majortom wrote:

Andres wrote:
Does not work under Fritz GUI, what i do?

Works well on my Fritz.
What is yr CPU?

Intel Xeon E5-2680 and Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit.

Maybe it can help:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/redistributable-libraries-for-the-intel-c-and-visual-fortran-composer-xe-for-windows

Mon Nov 11, 2013 3:19 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 3:19 pm by

Because I know very little from the computer my system is:

Hardware: AMD Athlon (tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ with 5,0 GB Memory
Operating system: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 6002) 64 bit

It suits some version with my computer?

Mon Nov 11, 2013 3:40 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 3:40 pm by

@Aggelos Kefalonian wrote:Because I know very little from the computer my system is:

Hardware: AMD Athlon (tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ with 5,0 GB Memory
Operating system: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 6002) 64 bit

It suits some version with my computer?

http://genes1s.net/smarthink.html

Code:: Sorry, at the moment, only single-processor Intel (x32, x64/SSE3, x64/AVX) versions are available.

But you have AMD, not Intel.

Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:04 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:04 pm by

Pity…

Because I read that she is aggressive engine, I have finished tournament measurement of aggressiveness of chess engines.
I want to try also certain other engines and afterwards I will publish.
I wanted to try him.

Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:15 pm by · Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:15 pm by

Works very well here on both console mode / Arena GUI. thumb up

Thanks!

Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:14 pm by · Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:14 pm by

http://genes1s.net/smarthink.php

Changes:

— pawn chains evaluation;
— fixed bug with draw tendency endgame factor;
— new attacks imbalance score;
— new pawn spread evaluation;
— new node type handling.

SilvianR wink

Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:11 am by · Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:11 am by

Still the same on both computers doesn't work at all. Bad sign when you see nothing in the authors display in this GUI when you see that good luck on the engine loading mine never has. If I can take some consolation it isn't just mine so many have not and can not test it. I wish the problems with Fritz 12 GUI could be resolved. I have downloaded many engines and outside of Java files I've never had a problem, this is very puzzling to me, if any Fritz users get it in after having problems let me know but I've spent too much time on this one issue and I give up. mad

Thu Jan 02, 2014 9:39 am by · Thu Jan 02, 2014 9:39 am by

Hello !

SmartTink 1.50 works very well in Fritz 11-12-13 & 14 GUIs.
Maybe you have a system problem ? Double-click on exe (enter in console-mode), type uci and press enter. If you receive the message "uciok" your engine must work in Fritz 12. Otherwise is a problem with the Fritz 12 installation !

Best to you !
SilvianR wink

Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:45 pm by · Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:45 pm by

I got the engine to run it wouldn't run sse3 but runs it says 1.41 but seems to be working fine Thank you very much for your help. cool

Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:17 am by · Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:17 am by

@sharpov wrote:I got the engine to run it wouldn't run sse3 but runs it says 1.41 but seems to be working fine Thank you very much for your help.

The latest exe gives SmarThink 1.50 as its name.

Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:09 am by · Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:09 am by

SmarThink 1.60
http://genes1s.net/smarthink.php

Major changes:

— fixed bug with wrong time output in UCI mode;
— fixed bug with stop command processing during multi-pv search;
— new incarnation of singular extensions;
— updated chained pawns eval;
— smarter time control (depends of board material);
— forward repetitions detection;
— knight PSQ tuning;
— using less memory (free some initialization arrays after using);
— delta pruning simplified;
— ETC code removed at all;
— simplier pruning/razoring code;
— better forward pruning;
— fixed several bugs in root search;
— small modification in interior pruning.

+40–60 ELO according to my tests

Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:18 pm by · Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:18 pm by

Where can I find a compile for Mac OS X ?

Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:44 pm by · Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:44 pm by

SmarThink v1.70
http://genes1s.net/smarthink.php

It crashes after a few minutes and i get the fabled blue screen. eek

Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:40 pm by · Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:40 pm by

Nicolas wrote:SmarThink v1.70
http://genes1s.net/smarthink.php

It crashes after a few minutes and i get the fabled blue screen.

Have you placed values.txt in engine folder?
This version played over 3000 games w/o any problems, so, probably, it looks that something wrong at your PC.

Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:23 pm by · Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:23 pm by

@Sergei S. Markoff wrote:

Nicolas wrote:SmarThink v1.70
http://genes1s.net/smarthink.php

It crashes after a few minutes and i get the fabled blue screen.

Have you placed values.txt in engine folder?

Yes.

AMD FX 9590 8 Core
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
8GB RAM

Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:37 pm by · Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:37 pm by

Nicolas wrote:
AMD FX 9590 8 Core
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
8GB RAM

Which shell are you using?

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