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Subject: Re: Saboteur - A Java chess engine

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 09:41:42 10/09/99

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On October 09, 1999 at 02:05:31, Josh Levine wrote:

>Hi,
>  My name is Josh Levine, and I have an engine called Saboteur written in Java.
>I guess this post is just to introduce Saboteur and myself to the CCC community.
> Saboteur plays mainly on FICS and is built from scratch.  While I did some
>peeking at the Crafty code, most of the algorithms are my own.  Sabbie (its a
>girl :) ) uses negascout, bitboards, transposition tables, pawn hashing, opening
>database, and searches about 19000 NPS in middlegame.  I plan to implement some
>form of book learning, and a neural key square evaluator which will prevent
>shallow searches from being completely devoid of positional concepts.  Anyway,
>if anyone is at all interested in Saboteur or me or both, post back.  Thanks for
>listening.
>
>Josh Levine


Hi Josh,

Glad to see somebody else is trying Java for chess programming.  :-)

Just curious -- what version of the JDK are you using, and are you running with
a JIT or using HotSpot?  Also, what hardware are you using?

--Peter




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