…playing online chess with a DGT board on my M1 worked better – at least from a technical point of view 😉
M1
Two updates and two new engines
for today…all native arm64.
Engine Updates II
Some more engines for Apple’s M1:
Chess GUI updates
Stockfish Test Suite 2021
I found a new test suite called «Stockfish Test Suite 2021» (STS) in this German forum. The test is a compilation/extract of 20+ more or less well know test suites and contains 238 positions which were not solved by cfish on the author’s older computer. The epd-file is here: Stockfish-Test-Suite-2021
Stockfish Family updated and optimized…
…hopefully. All binaries are made on a M1 (arm64) with clang and the option «profile-build».
Playing Online Chess with a DGT Board and the M1 works…
…well, almost ;-).
Benchmarks with more than one thread on an Apple M1
Maybe I was too stupid or not that involved in chess engine testing, but only after some small research in the source code of Stockfish 13 I figured out how to do the benchmark with more than one thread:
ERET Testsuite
ERET is a pretty reliable 111 position testsuite (Opening, Middlegame, Endgame, Tactics, Strategy) from March 2017 by Walter Eigenmann. These results here are less of a comparison between the engines but of different CPU/architectures. My test settings:
Engine Benchmarks on Apple’s M1
if available in the engine, some simple benchmarks using the command line, e.g.