Re: [Scidvspc-users] play against maia (lower nodes values)

[Jarek C. <jar...@po...>]

Just came across an interesting discussion on LC0 playing with low nodes 
values. Seems like it makes a lot of sense to be able to lower the 
number of nodes below 1000.

Number of nodes needed to LC0 reach an average human play level 
<https://groups.google.com/g/lczero/c/ptHXXUkmwR4>

W dniu 2021-12-01 o 21:12, Jarek Czekalski pisze:
>
> Steve
>
> Thank you very much. Now it really goes nodes 1 :) And that made it 
> possible to make some interesting experiences.
>
> I played a bit against Stockfish 14 (without neural network) using low 
> nodes values. Even with nodes 1 Stockfish was able to beat me (me, a 
> player about 1200). But what was funny, he beat me, but wasn't able to 
> mate me, having a queen :) To be able to mate me, I needed to give 
> stockfish 3000 nodes. 2000 was not enough.
>
> Now it was time to give maia 1100 a try, with nodes 1. I only wanted 
> to know if it can mate me with a queen. It started very wisely, 
> pushing my king to the edge. Now something funny happened. It produced 
> a stalemate! You can't expect it from any other engine :) In the next 
> try it correctly mated me. So it seems to be what it is told: plays 
> and blunders like a human.
>
> Cheers
> Jarek
>
> W dniu 2021-11-30 o 23:10, Steve A pisze:
>> Hmmm - probably that will get updated/changed sometime.
>>
>> But for the moment just change the *1000 to *1 in this line in 
>> scid.gui or tcl/tools/sergame.tcl
>>       set ::sergame::fixednodes [expr 
>> [.configSerGameWin.ftime.nodesvalue get]*1000]
>>
>>  S.A.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 7:43 AM Jarek Czekalski 
>> <jar...@po...> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello!
>>
>>     I found a great chess engine, maia. It's goal is not to play best
>>     chess, bo to play as humans do. So I'm trying to put it into scid
>>     vs pc. There is a guide here
>>     <https://github.com/CSSLab/maia-chess#how-to-run-maia>.
>>
>>     All goes well. I downloaded lc0, configured it as an engine. Put
>>     the gz file that makes it actually maia. But the problem is here:
>>
>>     /go nodes 1/
>>
>>     is the way I should configure the engine. However when I start
>>     playing against maia, I can only choose nodes 1x1000! And in
>>     engine logs it is confirmed as "go nodes 1000".
>>
>>     So, how can we play with maia?
>>
>>     Best Regards
>>     Jarek
>>
>>
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