

In addition, our human-like computer opponent is actually programmed to not make full use of the engine’s playing strength and to focus on finding more “human” moves. Computer opponent – here there’s no need for extensive depth since the game is against a human with far inferior calculation capabilities.For the Decoding process – during a single Decode process, our algorithms use Stockfish hundreds of times in various depths, and at the same time allocate substantial CPU efforts to finding the best move.

It won the 2018 computer chess championship on and appears on the analysis boards of leading chess websites, including lichess, and more.ĭecodeChess uses Stockfish in several ways, and depth changes from one case to another: What Chess Engine is Being Explained by DecodeChess?ĭecodeChess explains the moves of Stockfish, which is considered to be one of the top chess engines in the world. The number of variants that were requested.The engine itself (Stockfish, Houdini, Komodo, etc.).The amount of time allocated for the analysis.The strength of the computer on which the engine is running.The type of chess position in hand – the more good options (for example opening), the lesser the depth.But it doesn’t mean that all possible 18-ply variations are being checked, and thus there may be cases (though not frequently) that the chess engine will miss a good variation. However, other factors come into play here and they are too technical for the purpose of this article.įor example, (+0.77 depth 18) means white is up 77 centipawns after calculating 18 plies ahead. Generally speaking, we can say that the greater the depth, the more accurate the score and the prediction. When you say refuses to start, what does that mean?įile "/usr/lib64/python2.7/locale.What is Depth and Should I be Worried About it?ĭepth indicates how many plies ahead in the game the chess engine was able to “see”, withĪ ply being is a move made by one opponent (B/W). Quote from: AnalogueMan on August 01, 2017, 02:48:26 PM "Normal troubleshooting is to tell something about what you experience.

It will be removed in a future versionįile "/usr/lib64/python2.7/locale.py", line 579, in setlocale (pychess:10226): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:73:46: The style property GtkScrolledWindow:scrollbars-within-bevel is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. (pychess:10226): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:69:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-y is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. (pychess:10226): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:68:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-x is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. (pychess:10226): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Now the result when I start the program in the command ~]$ pychess Īt first when I start the program via Launcher then the icon appears for a short time in the panel, then disappears. You are absolute right, I should have given more details. what happens if you in a commandline type the command: pychess When you say refuses to start, what does that mean?Ī good starting point is to start a commandline and start the program from there, observe the output and post it as part of the troubleshoot, i.e. "Normal troubleshooting is to tell something about what you experience.
