Author: Axel Schumacher
Date: 18:16:48 04/01/04
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On April 01, 2004 at 17:00:31, martin fierz wrote: >On April 01, 2004 at 16:30:42, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>http://www.go-pirat.de/index.htm >> >>It seems to be a chess database and also has a chess engine (I think). > >it's a program for correspondence chess players, it has special functions that >are useful to correspondence chess players: print functions that let you print >postcards/letters/address labels; email/fax and address books; user-defined >opening books and more. it says practically nothing about the engine (except >that it is "strong"). > >cheers > martin Actually, there is some information: Engine: The Pirat engine uses elements of the classical procedures and heuristics in the first stage of development; as for example Alfa beta, Principal variation search, Quiesence search, killer -, Countermove -, History heuristic as well as Futility Cutoffs. Beyond that, it has already some selective algorithms. The user has access to almost all functions of the static (which only for the starting position is computed) and dynamic evaluation (incremental in each position computed) and therefore can change the playing strength and the playing style (see engine manual). In the next two stages of development of the engine, selective methods which were developed by Juergen Wolf essentially in its thesis (diploma) will have a priority additionally to an overall increase of performance. Cheers Axel
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