Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 01:05:25 09/01/00
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On August 30, 2000 at 23:30:09, Pete Galati wrote: >On August 30, 2000 at 21:42:33, James Swafford wrote: > >> >> >>Galahad 1.0 is available from http://members.xoom.com/jswaff/galahad. >>A few notes: >> >>1. win32 program >>2. doesn't include the console engine that plays on ICC >>3. the GUI engine isn't very strong, doesn't have any books, >> hashing, tb's, etc. basically just a working C++/MFC >> engine with a GUI. >>4. you can't interface to another program or ICC (server >> code will be in 2.0) >>5. source code and VC 6 project files included >>6. I mentioned this in the help file and the about box: the >> evaluator is a bitmap translation of Kerrigan's TSCP 1.3. >> The eval terms (except piece/square tables) can be modified >> via menu options before a game. (King safety terms and >> other terms are separated) >>7. Most of my beta testers missed this: you can add or remove >> pieces from the board (before a game) by right clicking on >> a square and selecting the appropriate entry from the pop >> up menu. Other aspects of the position (player on move, >> castling, ep, etc) can be modified via menu entries. >> >>I think that's it. >>Thanks. :-) >> >>-- >>James > >"the addition of sounds, and alternate piece sets" would be really good, >especially sounds, some sort of sound, any sound when Gallahad makes a move. >The silence is deadly, especially in a fast game. >Also, I'm not really clear if you plan to make Galahad an interface for >Winboard engines that you originally talked about, because in the "help" it >says "I'd also like Galahad to be able to coordinate tournaments between >console engines." >but I can't really tell if that means it will just in the normal games be able >to interface Winboard engines. It would be really nice if it could IMO. >Pete Well I'm sure it's on his to-do list.. Anyway I played my first game against Galahad. As it was without a opening book i knew the petroff would come up and it did!..G5 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 d4 ed 4 e5 d5?? This move shocked me! Did Galahad just blunder a knight? 5 ef How strong is Galahad supposed to be?
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