Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 07:13:44 01/20/01
My engine, "Gaviota" is available to be dowloaded at http://www.msu.edu/~ballicor/gav (this would be version 0.1) It was written in ANSI C and compiled with djgpp. Later I found out that it is supposed to give problems with winboard but I had no problems with that compiler. This is a starting point. The engine is still weak but much stronger than I expected at this stage. I estimate is around Elo 2000 in an AMD K6-2 400 mhz. In FICS oscillates between 2000-2050. It had played around 40 games there 5 0 or 3 3. It is certainly weaker than Amyan (+1 -2 =1) by probably 100-150 points. it is stronger than TSCP (in a match at 10 0 it was (+4 -1 =3). In FICS looked a bit stronger than Sjeng version. I was difficult to compare it to noonian. Lost several games the other day but yesterday went (+4 -0 =0) in FICS. Of course these are very few games bu just give an idea. I think that ~2000 could be a good estimation. Maybe 1900? It plays weird. There are certain positions that handle reasonably well, but in others is terrible. It seems that gaviota feels more comfortable in closed positions. It has no book, but it creates a 1mb file to learn bad positions (pos.bin) In this way it does not repeat the same game over and over. It may play bad openings, but improves. It has 8 mb Hash table. I believe that it is running stable. Let me know if there is a problem using it with Winboard (I have been using 4.1). I does not support "move now" but you can play normally with any time control and also matches since supports "new". It does not support "edit". It does not ponder. Is this the first Argentinian Winboard Engine? Regards, Migue
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