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Subject: Re: EXchess v3.11 released

Author: pavel

Date: 08:43:31 01/14/00

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On January 14, 2000 at 11:03:25, Dan Homan wrote:

>
>http://pc.astro.brandeis.edu/BRAG/people/dch/chess.html
>
>v3.11 is a new version after more than a year of no updates to EXchess.
>I've had very little time to work on EXchess in the past year, so the
>changes have accumulated slowly.  EXchess now supports Nalimov endgame
>tablebases. The evaluation function has been completely re-written
>(for cleanliness and to make use of piece lists) - the results seems
>to be stronger play, but I will let the testers have the final
>word on that.  I have also tweaked/improved a number of things about
>the search, so the program's tactics are quite a bit better than earlier
>versions.  EXchess also has a logging feature now (turned off by default).
>A number of small bugs have been fixed, for example EXchess now
>supports analysis from arbitrary starting positions under Winboard.
>
>Both Linux and Windows versions have been released.  As usual, I have also
>released the full source code.  The windows version has been compiled
>with the Cygwin compiler tools (using gcc 2.95) and I have included the
>cygwin1.dll with that version.
>
>Thanks very much to the testers who downloaded a pre-release version
>of EXchess and reported back to me with bugs and suggested improvements.
>
> - Dan

what is the approximiate rating of the older version of exchess? the i can
estimate the elo rating of the newer version.........though its not tested.
pavel



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