Update config.yml

config.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ engine:                            # Engine settings.
   working_dir: ""                  # Directory where the chess engine will read and write files. If blank or missing, the current directory is used.
                                    # NOTE: If working_dir is set, the engine will look for files and directories relative to this directory, not where lichess-bot was launched. Absolute paths are unaffected.
   protocol: "uci"                  # "uci", "xboard" or "homemade"
-  ponder: true                     # Think on opponent's time.
+  ponder: false                    # TURNED OFF: Stops background thinking to keep move times strictly consistent.
 
 polyglot:
   enabled: true                 # Activate polyglot book.
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ polyglot:
       min_depth: 20
       min_knodes: 0
     lichess_opening_explorer:
-      enabled: false
+      enabled: true
       min_time: 20
       max_time: 10800              # Maximum starting game time (in seconds) the bot must have to use the lichess opening explorer.
-      source: "masters"            # One of "lichess", "masters", "player"
+      source: "lichess"            # Switched to "lichess" to properly fetch community openings for variants
       player_name: ""              # The lichess username. Leave empty for the bot's username to be used. Used only when source is "player".
       sort: "winrate"              # One of "winrate", "games_played"
       min_games: 10                # Minimum number of times a move must have been played to be chosen.
@@ -117,17 +117,17 @@ polyglot:
 
   uci_options:
     Use NNUE: true
-    EvalFile: "./fairy/nnue/atomic.nnue"  # Change this to your actual folder path   # ... keep your other options like Threads and Hash below this# Arbitrary UCI options passed to the engine.
+    UCI_VariantPath: "./fairy/variants.ini"  # Dynamically loads rules/NNUE parameters for all supported variants
     Move Overhead: 100             # Increase if your bot flags games too often.
     Threads: 4                     # Max CPU threads the engine can use.
-    Hash: 3000                      # Max memory (in megabytes) the engine can allocate.
+    Hash: 256                      # FIXED: Reduced to 256MB to fit Hugging Face free tier smoothly without freezing.
     SyzygyPath: "./syzygy/"        # Paths to Syzygy endgame tablebases that the engine reads.
     UCI_ShowWDL: true              # Show the chance of the engine winning.
     go_commands:                   # Additional options to pass to the UCI go command.
 #     nodes: 150000                     # Search so many nodes only.
-#      depth: 22                 # Search depth ply only.
+#     depth: 22                  # Search depth ply only.
       movetime: 3000             # Integer. Search exactly movetime milliseconds.
-      ponder: true
+      ponder: false              # TURNED OFF: Forces engine to start fresh and respect the 3-second limit every single turn.
 # xboard_options:                  # Arbitrary XBoard options passed to the engine.
 #   cores: "4"
 #   memory: "4096"