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Configuring chess engines

The [engine] section is used to configure chess engine used to analyze. This page describes configuration for chess engines (supporting UCI protocol) you can play with in nocheto (or let them play each other). See the play command.

Config in nocheto.ini file

This configuration is recommended for nocheto version 2.2.0 and older.

Every engine have to have its own [section] in a configuration file (like nocheto.ini). The section name have to starts with engine_ followed by the name used by the play command.

Those engines are not used by the analyze or hint commands. Only the engine configured in [engine] section is used to analyze moves. But they can be used by nochetoclient in analyze mode.

Example


    [engine_stockfish]
    name = "Stockfish 14"
    engine = /usr/games/stockfish
    Threads=8

    [engine_komodo]
    name = "Komodo 10"
    engine = komodo

    [engine_gnuchess]
    name = "Gnuchess"
    engine = gnuchessu

The example above configures 3 engines named stockfish, komodo and gnuchess. The name property is not used in nocheto (for now), you can set its value to whatever you like. The engine property is a path to the engine executable file (if the full path is not provided, the executable is searched in your $PATH paths).

You can use the same properties as in the [engine] section (level, goseconds, multipv etc.) except autoplay.

Configuration in the engines.ini file

You can also write the engine configurations into the ~/.nocheto/config/engines.ini file.^2.3.0
In that case the section ame desn't start with the engine_ prefix.

Example of the ~/.nocheto/config/engines.ini file


    [stockfish]
    name = "Stockfish 14"
    engine = /usr/games/stockfish
    Threads=8

    [komodo]
    name = "Komodo 10"
    engine = komodo

    [gnuchess]
    name = "Gnuchess"
    engine = gnuchessu

The properties are the same as in the [engine] section, except autoplay property

How to use configured engines

Use command play vs <engine> to play agains engine and play <engine1> vs <engine2> to let the engines play against each other.

If you want to play as black against the engine, just make it move first by the play command.

Example


play stockfish vs komodo

How to use a configured engine with nochetoclient

$ nochetoclient --mode=analyze --engine=komodo