Hello Pangu, Thank you very much for doing this. I was able to play a game against GNU4u the other day and it worked perfectly.
I’m delighted to hear that it will be online until further notice. I’ll have to keep playing against him to try to score a win. All the best, Daniel > On 16 Mar 2025, at 15:48, pangu via Info-gnu-chess <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello Antonio, > > Since I am enjoying GNU software since the 80s, working with GNU Chess brings > back some good memories :-) > > GNU4u runs on a Server at Hetzner in Germany, in an Ubuntu Container in a > screen session in the background. So, it could run 24/7, as long as nothing > bad happens, like a server reboot, or a disconnect from lichess. > > Once it stops working, it needs a manual reactivation. So it may well be down > a couple of hours or even a day or two. But I intend to have it online for > now. > > Since March 9th it has already played >280 games, and participated in > tournaments, mixed human and Bots. > > Since these mixed tournaments are a new feature at Lichess, and humans tend > to not want to play against superhuman capable bots, a middle-class engine > like GNU Chess is quite interesting, even if being too strong for most > players. > > Cheeers, > Stephan > > >> Am 16.03.2025 um 11:52 schrieb Antonio Ceballos <[email protected]>: >> >> Hi Pangu, >> >> Thanks for your feedback. I am very glad to know that the good old GNU Chess >> is playing at lichess.org <http://lichess.org/> as GNU4u. When is it usually >> online? >> >> Cheers, >> Antonio Ceballos >> >> >>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM pangu via Info-gnu-chess >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> First off, thanks for GNU Chess! >>> >>> I created a BOT on lichens.org <http://lichens.org/>, that uses the GNU >>> chess engine. >>> >>> It runs in a VM on a Hetzner Server, on a Core i7-7700. >>> >>> If you have any comments, wishes or requests, please contact me via email >>> or on Lichess.org <http://lichess.org/> username realPangu >>> >>> Here a link to the BOT profile on lichess: https://lichess.org/@/GNU4u >>> >>> It does quite well! >>> >>> It runs with the UCI interface and users book.bin as opening book. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Stephan >>> aka pangu >>> aka realPangu@lichess >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Info-gnu-chess mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-chess > > _______________________________________________ > Info-gnu-chess mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-chess _______________________________________________ Info-gnu-chess mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-chess
