Computer Chess Games
what did you made, to make chess.com computer hard to play with houdini
Open houdini and enter the moves the hard computer makes and enter houdinis moves at the hard computer screen.
I just decided to act like it was a real chess game, so no take backs. Also, it's not on Chess Titans. And yes you just play the hard mode on chess.com, but enter every move straight from houdini and enter in the chess.com computer's moves into the GUI that your engine is running on.
This was a 24 hour time control game, however the engines did not use all of their time. Stockfish had 406 minutes and 43 seconds left at the end of the game, and Houdini had 672 minutes and 14 seconds left.
On the Crafty GUI you cannot set a Hash table size or set the number of CPU's for an engine to use. But I figured a 24 hour game would still give me some really good chess.
This game was played by Stockfish 5 using the infinite analysis feature in Fritz 14. I moved the pieces once it reached a depth of 35 or higher, although sometimes I would enter in multiple moves at a time if it reached a higher depth. I don't think this was the right decision beacause Stockfish seems to give slightly worse moves for black if it is currently analyzing the best move for white. I am wondering how I should try and get the highest level of play from engines, so I will try out the NSK+V opening book and I am going to set the Hash table size to 3022 MB for the next game, unless I find out that 2048 MB is better in Fritz.
Komodo 9.42 (Contempt:29) vs Arasan 19.0.1
I finally realized it must be awful to go through these games knowing which engine is going to win as soon as you see the title.
I started this game quite a while ago, maybe even before summer, so this took a while. I did not use an opening book for Komodo. The hash table size on Arasan is set to 800 MB. Komodo's hash table size was set to 2048 MB. Here's the game: