Auto ELO Level

[Thomas]

Dear chessfriends,

what setting do I have to change to auto-adjust my ELO rating after playing a game.

I searched the documentation but did not find a thing.

Thanks

Thomas

[Dirk]

Hi Thomas,

I don't know if I understood your question correctly but you just choose an "auto" level in the level settings of the engine. Then Pico<chess will adopt your and the engines elo accordingly after the game.

Note that not all engines do support auto elo levels (but stockfish for example does.)

If you want to start with a specific new own elo just reset the value to your initial elo rating in the picochess.ini file (tag "pgn-elo", eg. pgn-elo = 1200 and set tag "rating-deviation" to initial rating-deviation = 350). Maybe in your picochess.ini the tag "pgn-elo" is not set at all, then set it to your guessed elo value.

Dirk

[Thomas]

Thanks a lot!

Is there an overwiew, which engines support the auto level?

[RandyR]

Currently, the following engines have an Auto level:

ArasanNN v24.2.2
Arasan v24.2.2
Black Diamond NNUE v13.1b
Bluefish NNUE v13.1b
CT800 V1.46
Galjoen 0.41.2
Harmon NNUE v13.1b
Honey NNUE v14.2
Oki Maguro NNUE v13.1b
Patricia 5 EAS Engine
Rodent III 0.289
Rodent IV v0.33
ShashChess 39
Stockfish 16
StockfishNN 17.1
Wasp 7.0

Randy