Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 07:38:25 04/17/99
There are times when I think my chess program is actually working. This is one such moment. It is hardly a killer, but manages around 260 on WAC300 at 10 seconds a move and is about on a par with GNUChess4 in matches under WinBoard - which, as I recall, according to at least one authority here puts it firmly in the pansy class. (Come to think of it I need to name it.). Against LambChop and Gromit, for example, however it often falls to tactics even though, at least in the case of LambChop according to its readme files, these programs are not necessarily faster searches. So my question is, how do you make a program a better tactician? Currently mine is the usual mix of full-width alpha-beta (PVS) search with extensions for check, recapture and pawn-push in the endgame in the endgame, and simple quiescent alpha-beta with futility pruning.
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