Removal of SlowMover Option #4917
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The SlowMover option allows users to modify the timeLeft variant, impacting the engine's time management. However, this feature, while theoretically flexible, doesn't offer substantial benefits. Instead, it introduces the risk of non-experienced users altering values without a clear understanding of the effects, potentially leading to a weaker engine. The vast majority of SF users don't use it anyway, and based on tests conducted by fauzi several months ago suggest that changing it would only lose Elo. Examples: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/651f309bac57711436726bba https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/651fea29ac57711436727d85 https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/65257c343125598fc7eb68a1 https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/652296c83125598fc7eb2ad7 Tune: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/652a70313125598fc7ebd706 (keeping the value at 100, zz2) closes official-stockfish#4917 No functional change
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The SlowMover option allows users to modify the timeLeft variant, impacting the engine's time management. However, this feature, while theoretically flexible, doesn't offer substantial benefits. Instead, it introduces the risk of non-experienced users altering values without a clear understanding of the effects, potentially leading to a weaker engine. The vast majority of SF users don't use it anyway, and based on tests conducted by fauzi several months ago suggest that changing it would only lose Elo. Examples: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/651f309bac57711436726bba https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/651fea29ac57711436727d85 https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/65257c343125598fc7eb68a1 https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/652296c83125598fc7eb2ad7 Tune: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/652a70313125598fc7ebd706 (keeping the value at 100, zz2) closes official-stockfish#4917 No functional change
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Removing the SlowMover for simplicity.
The SlowMover option allows users to modify the timeLeft variant, impacting the engine's time management. However, this feature, while theoretically flexible, doesn't offer substantial benefits. Instead, it introduces the risk of non-experienced users altering values without a clear understanding of the effects, potentially leading to a weaker engine.
I believe that the vast majority of SF users don't use it anyway, and based on tests conducted by me several months ago suggest that changing would only lose Elo.
Examples:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/651f309bac57711436726bba
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/651fea29ac57711436727d85
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/65257c343125598fc7eb68a1
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/652296c83125598fc7eb2ad7
Tune: https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/652a70313125598fc7ebd706 (keeping the value at 100, zz2)
Non-Functional
Bench: 1283323