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id name Stockfish 17.1
setoption name UCI_Chess960 value true
position fen qnrkrbbn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/QNRKRBBN w KQkq - 0 1 moves e2e4 e7e5 O-O-O
It appears stockfish 17.1 does not parse "O-O-O" here and just attempts to generate a move for white instead, which is marked by arena as illegal since it is black's move. I assume stockfish needs "d1c1" here instead of "O-O-O" and this is sort of an arena problem?
distant crow
Arena is broken with FRC
correct UCI notation for white O-O-O there is d1c1; UCI castling moves in chess960 are encoded as king takes rook
but arena is a generally terrible GUI and implements UCI wrong
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I see, thanks. any suggestion for a better gui, especially for FRC maybe?
distant crow
correct UCI notation for white O-O-O there is `d1c1`; UCI castling moves in ches...
arena even accepts it
cutechess exists and works
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yes, the other engine is spike 1.4, which is quite old so im not surprised
distant crow
I'm not really an engine user myself, so I'm not familiar with the other guis available
distant crow
yes, the other engine is spike 1.4, which is quite old so im not surprised
it's not spike's fault
spike is complying with UCI here, and prints d1c1
arena accepts it and then converts it to O-O-O before passing it to SF
which is wrong
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ah, you edited c1d1, didn't see. yes, makes sense
distant crow
yeah I typoed initially, apologies
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np, thanks, will check out cutechess, wanted to analyze along at grenke freestyle event a bit
distant crow
I don't know if cutechess is suitable for live analysis ngl
that's outside my field, you'll have to wait for someone else to notice this thread if you want gui recommendations for your purpose
(not to say that cutechess won't work - I just don't analyse games myself so idk if it will)
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its fine, I guess I just gonna try out a few and see what works
heavy island
En Croissant and Nibbler are decent options
pulsar pier
En Croissant and Nibbler are decent options
One note for this;
Nibbler is now compatible with most engines, but it has many features specific to Leela (Lc0)
En Croissant has many bugs, but in my experience it does pretty well for live analysis
It often times doesn't actually close the engine when it exits, and it has bugs with timeouts (GUI crashes on timeout), and instant moves (if the engine responds with a move instantly, say when M1, the GUI will not tell the next engine to start search, and it will time out)