GIVE IMPROVEMENTS THAT YOU WANT IN THE NEXT HOUDINI.
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:43 pm
Hello to All,
I would like to ask you to give your desired improvements for the next version(s) of Houdini. As Robert Houdart frequently reads the Open-Chess.org forums, he should surely take note of your suggestions. Thanks in advance to All.
I will start myself by giving a few suggestions.
---I suggest that one of the next version of Houdini uses the TripleBases endgame tablebases instead of the current Gaviota tablebases that Houdini 1.5a uses. Why? These TripleBases are stored in RAM and therefore their access is much quicker than when the tablebases are stored on hard disk. On my current humble notebook with a four cores processor, I have 8 GB of RAM and, most of the time, I do not even use 50% of these 8GB of RAM for most of the programs that I use.
I strongly feel that these TripleBases endgame tablebases would strengthen further Houdini.
---I am in favour of the free chess GUIs like Arena and WinBoard. Having said that, I currently use Fritz 12 (the deep version for multiprocessors) and I honestly and fairly think that it is currently the best chess GUI available and by a wide margin.
Therefore, the latest version of Houdini should surely be thoroughly tested first on this particular Fritz 12 GUI. I think Robert Houdart already does that. But it is worth emphasizing this point here.
---In Fritz 12, with the current Houdini 1.5a version when you have installed the Gaviota endgame tablebases, they do not seem to be made available in the Training tab, Endgame Training even though they do work fine with Houdini 1.5a. It would be good if these Gaviota endgame tablebases could also be usable in Training tab, Endgame Training (under Fritz 12).
---During the Elite Match on "TCEC - Elite Match - Live Broadcast" at http://www.tcec-chess.org/tcec_em.php it was interesting to see the various parameters that were recorded while the games were played. Houdini could add several of these parameters to the ones that are already currently available so that one could analyze games played by Houdini even better.
---In Fritz 12, when using Houdini 1.5, for the analysis tools available in Fritz 12, Houdini 1.5 should allow the easy saving of the results obtained when one uses these analysis tools in Fritz 12. I do not see an easy way to save these results in Fritz 12. But I am a recent user of Fritz 12 so I might have missed a few ways to use a few features of Fritz 12 efficiently.
The analysis tools in Fritz 12 that I refer to are in particular:
-Home tab, Infinite Analysis.
-Analysis tab, Full Analysis.
-Analysis tab, Deep Position Analysis.
I will add more suggestions later on.
Thanks to all who will add their own suggestions for the next version(s) of Houdini. Be fully aware that Robert Houdart, the programmer of Houdini, regularly reads the Open-Chess.org forums and therefore I am sure that he will take into account your suggestions given here for the next version(s) of Houdini.
Best Regards to All
MichaelIsGreat
I would like to ask you to give your desired improvements for the next version(s) of Houdini. As Robert Houdart frequently reads the Open-Chess.org forums, he should surely take note of your suggestions. Thanks in advance to All.
I will start myself by giving a few suggestions.
---I suggest that one of the next version of Houdini uses the TripleBases endgame tablebases instead of the current Gaviota tablebases that Houdini 1.5a uses. Why? These TripleBases are stored in RAM and therefore their access is much quicker than when the tablebases are stored on hard disk. On my current humble notebook with a four cores processor, I have 8 GB of RAM and, most of the time, I do not even use 50% of these 8GB of RAM for most of the programs that I use.
I strongly feel that these TripleBases endgame tablebases would strengthen further Houdini.
---I am in favour of the free chess GUIs like Arena and WinBoard. Having said that, I currently use Fritz 12 (the deep version for multiprocessors) and I honestly and fairly think that it is currently the best chess GUI available and by a wide margin.
Therefore, the latest version of Houdini should surely be thoroughly tested first on this particular Fritz 12 GUI. I think Robert Houdart already does that. But it is worth emphasizing this point here.
---In Fritz 12, with the current Houdini 1.5a version when you have installed the Gaviota endgame tablebases, they do not seem to be made available in the Training tab, Endgame Training even though they do work fine with Houdini 1.5a. It would be good if these Gaviota endgame tablebases could also be usable in Training tab, Endgame Training (under Fritz 12).
---During the Elite Match on "TCEC - Elite Match - Live Broadcast" at http://www.tcec-chess.org/tcec_em.php it was interesting to see the various parameters that were recorded while the games were played. Houdini could add several of these parameters to the ones that are already currently available so that one could analyze games played by Houdini even better.
---In Fritz 12, when using Houdini 1.5, for the analysis tools available in Fritz 12, Houdini 1.5 should allow the easy saving of the results obtained when one uses these analysis tools in Fritz 12. I do not see an easy way to save these results in Fritz 12. But I am a recent user of Fritz 12 so I might have missed a few ways to use a few features of Fritz 12 efficiently.
The analysis tools in Fritz 12 that I refer to are in particular:
-Home tab, Infinite Analysis.
-Analysis tab, Full Analysis.
-Analysis tab, Deep Position Analysis.
I will add more suggestions later on.
Thanks to all who will add their own suggestions for the next version(s) of Houdini. Be fully aware that Robert Houdart, the programmer of Houdini, regularly reads the Open-Chess.org forums and therefore I am sure that he will take into account your suggestions given here for the next version(s) of Houdini.
Best Regards to All
MichaelIsGreat