Author: Sven Reichard
Date: 01:42:33 06/23/02
Yesterday I wrote a rudimentary xboard-2 interface and a naive time management scheme, and Alice played its first couple of games with GnuChess 4. Result: Alice crashed twice, the other games went 8-0-0 for GnuChess, as expected. (Well, technically GnuChess lost one game on time, but that doesn't count...) So after about 2 years of slow development I have something like a chess program! :) It was nice to watch them play, and it gave me some hints on what to work on next (in this order): - investigate those crashes (I know where one of them comes from) - pawn structure (Alice doesn't know a thing about it) - king safety - deal with the horizon effect Alice is a fully object oriented program developed under GNU/Linux. It's written in Standard C++, so should be easily portable. At some point (maybe 2002 Q4) I plan to publish the sources and hook it up to FICS, just if anybody is interested. I know that this isn't half as exciting for you as it is for me, but I wanted to share it anyways. Cheers, Sven.
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