Maia for Arena

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I have read that the chess engine Maia can play at a more human-like level. So I downloaded it and installed it in the Arena platform. Problem: this is still monster-strength, it may murder me in a more human way but it is still bloody murder. I have read that I get that human-level play by setting the search depth to 1. How do I do this within Arena though?

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These settings were recommended by some lichess users several years ago. They work quite well with version 0_26_0 of LC0. They should work with the latest version of LC0, too.

Threads: 1
MinibatchSize: 1
Maxprefetch: 0
NodesPerSecondLimit: 0_001

Just replace the underscore with a dot. For some reason chess_com is filtering out any number with a dot.

Avatar of elefantenvogel

But how do I set them within Arena? Arena just gives me the option to supply an engine with a command line argument.

Avatar of elefantenvogel

Ah, just noticed that "search depth" can be affected via "Levels". Applies to all engines though then.

Avatar of Fet
Wait is it really filtering every number with a dot? Let me see. 1.4
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Or 0.001
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For me it's fine
Avatar of taychoe

Engines > Manage > Details > under Installed Engines, click on the name of the engine > click on "Start this engine right now!" (top-middle portion of GUI) > Engines > Engine 1 > Configure

You can now change the engine's UCI settings. Don't forget to click on OK when you're done.