Wasp 3.60 for DGT Pi, news for chess computer lovers!

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hello and good evening,

John Stanback (USA) released Wasp 3.60.
The new version can be used for DGT Pi.
An image file for the chess computer by DGT is available on my site.

I added a longer release text on Wasp news.
Sure that chess computer lovers will like it a lot.



Frank's Chess Page
http://www.amateurschach.de

Best
Frank

[spacious_mind]

Hello and good evening,

John Stanback (USA) released Wasp 3.60.
The new version can be used for DGT Pi.
An image file for the chess computer by DGT is available on my site.

I added a longer release text on Wasp news.
Sure that chess computer lovers will like it a lot.



Frank's Chess Page
http://www.amateurschach.de

Best
Frank

Hi Frank,

Thanks! can you ask him to do a Windows 98 version compiling it with mingw32 4.7.2.

He probably needs an old PC to do that. That way it can be included in future tournaments against dedicated computers too

Best regards

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hm, did you try the Wasp360-x32.exe? It is compiled for original athlon or pentium cpu or newer.

John wrote:
If he has an older cpu I could make a 32 bit compile for it. I don't have the mingw32 4.7.2 compiler, but I would expect that the mingw32 6.1.0 compiler that I use for 32 bit compiles would work if given the correct architecture to compiler for.

Best
Frank

P.S. To late for me.
If you send an answere I will see that tomorrow in the evening. Be sure I will send John your answer tomorrow in the evening.

[spacious_mind]

Hm, did you try the Wasp360-x32.exe? It is compiled for original athlon or pentium cpu or newer.

John wrote:
If he has an older cpu I could make a 32 bit compile for it. I don't have the mingw32 4.7.2 compiler, but I would expect that the mingw32 6.1.0 compiler that I use for 32 bit compiles would work if given the correct architecture to compiler for.

Best
Frank

P.S. To late for me.
If you send an answere I will see that tomorrow in the evening. Be sure I will send John your answer tomorrow in the evening.

Hi Frank

Yes, I had previously tried the Wasp versions to see if they worked on DOSBox Win 95 and Win 98 and it seems that they were compiled for more modern computers and did not work. Maybe the Ming32 6.1.0 works but if he used that for the 32 bit on your website then that is probably too recent too, but I could try it if he does a compile.

Regards

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi,

OK, if I have the other w32 compile I will give you a short hint.
Thanks for testing!

Best
Frank

[Scally]

Hi again Frank,

I had replied to your post on the TalkChess forum before seeing your post here. Thanks again for the heads up on John’s new version of Wasp, his engine and Rasmus’ CT800 are among many engines I have running nicely on my Raspberry Pi 3b+ running Picochess inside the DGT Pi:





Al.

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi Scally,

wonderful pieces you have, very nice!!

Thanks for your message!
Have fun with Wasp on DGT Pi.

Best
Frank

[Frank Quisinsky]

I added a second w32 compile to the other wasp360 files.
Information about it can be found in Wasp news.

Please donwload the wasp360.zip file (now 1.2Mb) again!

[spacious_mind]

I added a second w32 compile to the other wasp360 files.
Information about it can be found in Wasp news.

Please donwload the wasp360.zip file (now 1.2Mb) again!

Hi Frank

Thanks I will check it!! I appreciate the effort.


Best regards

[spacious_mind]

Hi Frank

I just tried it. Sorry but its not ancient enough for it work




It comes up with the above errors.

Regards

[Frank Quisinsky]

Could you try out this one:
http://www.amateurschach.de/download/wa ... ncient.zip
(0.133Mb, executable only)

[spacious_mind]

Could you try out this one:
http://www.amateurschach.de/download/wa ... ncient.zip
(0.133Mb, executable only)

Hi Frank,

Same problem but different dll error.



It's weird but sad too when I look at SF6 and for example Jellyfish 1.1 which is also an interesting program it seems the last builds that work with Windows 98 are 2015. Perhaps its the dawn of new Windows 7/8/10 systems or the new hardware that stops new developed chess programs from working.

I don't know just guessing around.

But I think it is still possible, it seems its just a matter of approach I think. Here is what the SF6 person wrote:

"This is version 6 of Stockfish and it will be (almost surely) the last to come out of my inexpert hands.
It was compiled with mingw32 4.7.2 on a AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor @ 501MHz with 192 MB Memory and Microsoft Windows 98 SE, (except for stockfish6w_old.exe, where mingw 3.4.2 was used).

our "stockfish6w_old.exe", the Fernandez / Homer Simpson (illiterate) approach to compiling.
No computer knowledge needed here, just a good pair of scissors.
Are you stuck with a Pentium and Windows 95? Well, maybe you can use
Stockfish 6 after all... Besides, as you can see (a draw against Stockfish6
and 2,5 points against Stockfish5) this is no harmless puppy either."

The old. exe is actually another version that works under Windows 95.

So I guess it is possible to compile for old systems, its just a matter of knowing how.

Regards

[Volodymyr]

Frank, John thank you very much.
Very good engine.
Windows XP works fine!
Will there be any more tests Wasp Limit Strength - Chess computers?
I do not use DGT Pi, what depth of the book did you use?

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi there,

1. To the w32 problem:
Can have different reasons, maybe to search in the last changes John do with support endgame bases or other things. For the moment not to solved. Or a problem with libary files from Dosbox? Again, not easy to find the problem.

2. I am using the own opening book (Feobos v20.1 Contempt 2) for Wasp 3.60 running under DGT Pi. Test games vs. differnet chess computers I have played enough I think. Next week I will restart a chess computer tournament with 53 chess computers, Wasp 3.60 an CT800 on DGT pi (long time tournament, I believe it need longer as 2 years).

Best
Frank

[fhub]

1. To the w32 problem:
Can have different reasons, maybe to search in the last changes John do with support endgame bases or other things. For the moment not to solved. Or a problem with libary files from Dosbox? Again, not easy to find the problem.

Hi Frank,

the problem is a missing library file "libwinpthread-1.dll".
You should compile the sourcecode so, that this file is included in the compiled EXE.

Regard,
Franz