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Subject: ProDeo 3.1 - The PESTO version Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:27 pm
PESTO stands for Piece Square Tables Only as described on the Rofchade website by Dutchman Ronald Friederich and later implemented in TSCP by Rodent author Pawel Koziol which gave TSCP an 200 elo boast.
Inspired by this I implemented PESTO in ProDeo just for the fun of it and for a 3 days work (one day programming, two days testing) the results (+50 elo) are very good for ProDeo. I therefore can recommend every engine programmer to give it the same try, hence this release.
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mwyoung
Posts : 880 Join date : 2020-11-25 Location : USA
Subject: Re: ProDeo 3.1 - The PESTO version Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:17 pm
Thanks for the new version Ed. I will give it a test. 50 Elo!
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Chris Whittington
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Subject: Re: ProDeo 3.1 - The PESTO version Sat Feb 20, 2021 9:48 am
Ed, what did you do, just delete your psts and drop in the new ones, or?
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Subject: Re: ProDeo 3.1 - The PESTO version Sat Feb 20, 2021 9:58 am
Chris Whittington wrote:
Ed, what did you do, just delete your psts and drop in the new ones, or?
I kept my own and put the PESTO PST's on top of that. There is still specific value in my own PST's that I don't want to lose.
Chris Whittington
Posts : 1254 Join date : 2020-11-17 Location : France
Subject: Re: ProDeo 3.1 - The PESTO version Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:48 am
Admin wrote:
Chris Whittington wrote:
Ed, what did you do, just delete your psts and drop in the new ones, or?
I kept my own and put the PESTO PST's on top of that. There is still specific value in my own PST's that I don't want to lose.
Added then together, or took an average of the two, or?
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Subject: Re: ProDeo 3.1 - The PESTO version Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:09 pm
Chris Whittington wrote:
Admin wrote:
Chris Whittington wrote:
Ed, what did you do, just delete your psts and drop in the new ones, or?
I kept my own and put the PESTO PST's on top of that. There is still specific value in my own PST's that I don't want to lose.
Added then together, or took an average of the two, or?
Added together.
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Jonathan003
Posts : 63 Join date : 2020-12-04
Subject: Re: ProDeo 3.1 - The PESTO version Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:37 am
What is the estimated Elo strengt of Prodeo 3.1 I'm looking for a strong engine to analyse my otb games with Chessmaster Grandmaster edition. Because I have trouble importing a uci engine like Stockfish 13, I'm lookin for a strong winboard engine.
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Posts : 2608 Join date : 2020-11-17 Location : Netherlands
Subject: Re: ProDeo 3.1 - The PESTO version Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:49 am
ProDeo 3.1 (not tested yet on the rating lists) is about 2800-2850 elo. To use it as a winboard engine you must add w4 ProDeo.eng as command line parameter option.
I am pretty sure there are stronger winboard engines around, perhaps other members can help you out.
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