Fritz Engine Cloud: Running against multiple engines? - Chess Forums

AutoDMC

Mar 23, 2016

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One thing I don't understand about Engine Cloud... can you use multiple remote engines at once? I have a couple of middle of the road computers at my house that idle all day that I wouldn't mind hurling at the cloud, but frankly they're only useful if you could slave many of 'em together to work on a problem at once.

Is this possible? Has anyone tried it?

Chessman2b_Old

Mar 24, 2016

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#2

Yes and no. You can use multiple remote engines at the same time (I just tried it). You cannot 'slave' them together though so that they go 'deeper' than just using one.

Both engines will analyze the specific position. They do not share their hash table. They do not share any data between the engines. They will only analyze completely separate (they are not going to be stronger than their individual parts). Having more than one cloud engine could be helpful if say you wanted to use Komodo and Stockfish to analyze a game to see if there are differences in what they find or recommend.

AutoDMC

Mar 28, 2016

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Thanks for looking, chessman2b. Yeah, I was hoping the engines could be used to search the same search space, not separate engines duplicating each other's work.

I guess I'll just have to get my 8core AMD system back online to be my chess slave. Thanks again!

Chessman2b_Old

Mar 29, 2016

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Hi AutoDMC:

I'm not sure if you are using Fritz or CB for your analysis but:

Yesterday I was reading the owners manual for Chessbase 13, and on page 269 (http://download.chessbase.com/Download/cb13/ChessBase13Manual_eng.pdf ) there are a couple of pages on deep analysis. If you just wanted to use the weaker computer's together to do "Deep Analysis" with CB 13, the manual does discuss how several engines can work together to complement each other (one does the main line, the other(s) check the variations). There doesn't seem to be a way to do an automated analysis like a blundercheck etc. of a full game but it could be done manually.

I tried looking up "Deep Analysis" in the Fritz 15 manual and it really doesn't give much info: http://help.chessbase.com/Fritz/15/Eng/index.html