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Seireigi. Variant of standard Shogi with promotable Gold Generals, as well as more varied and animalistic promotions. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Michael Taktikos wrote on Sat, Jul 6 05:51 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 05:34 AM:

Hello HGM,

"I heard that this increased its strength by about 1000 Elo over using the hand-crafted evaluation"

Have not trained a NNUE for Sereigi yet, but indeed, in Shogi the NNUE was over 1000 Elo above HCE. For now, I have defined Sereigi for FSF and integrated it in the Winboard GUI, just download it (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1STneJS83cyom0qGzytWgDwtemdc2WE2F/view?usp=sharing), unzip it and start it in Winboard (it's the only engine I have included in the factory.ini file).

With the graphics via pieceToCharTable and the bitmaps folder of Winboard there are problems (could only apply the bmp of archbishop for the lance piece) Of course I can change the bmp's in the bitmaps folder, but that would make the Winboard GUI unusable for other games. The best for now may be to start manually from the command line

FSF2304 load variants.ini

xboard

memory 2048

cores 22 (the number of cores your processor has)

variant sereigi

st 10 (seconds per move)

and type some move in the notation g1f2 If a piece promotes, the sign + after the move is necessary, for example h8b2+

I would say, even without NNUE it plays at superhuman strength and is without doubt atm world's strongest Sereigi player, Enjoy