Author: Masciulli Gianluigi
Date: 13:28:45 02/01/00
Actually we have 4 italian chess engines
I'm doing i kind of tournament just to see the level of CC here in italy
I thik is the first one beetween italian progs :-)
the engines are:
1) Raffaela (Windows version of Drago)
by Stefano Gemma (about 1900 on ICC, nickname "gemma")
free... for now (only the executable, sources not available)
About 1630 on ICC
It is the first Italian Program on Internet (AFAIK).
http://www.linformatica.com (site temporarly closed)
Stefano has programmed Raffaela in assembly and its n/s is impressive!
2) LarsenVb
by Luca Dormio
free (both executable and sources)
About 1800 on FICS
Programmed in VISUAL BASIC (!!!) Inspired at the C-program FAILE.
http://space.tin.it/clubnet/ludormio
the source will be available at the site soon.
3) PcChess (but may be this is not the definitive name)
by Carmelo Calzerano
Not finished: i think will be available free when finished
programmed in C
this engine is not finished yet but from the games i saw seems of the same class
of Drago and LarsenVB
4) Golem
by me
Not finished: will be available when finished (I'll make available the source
too)
Programmed in C
until now my program is good only for betting in How many moves sombody will
mate him :(
Another italian in computer chess is Sandro Necchi. He is not a programmer but a
Computer Opening Expert who write the Opening book for the Mchess program.
I know too about 5/6 italian programmers who started writing a chess engine, but
the 4 above programs are the only ones completed enough to play a game.
following you can find the "official" historic games I played between these
engines.
[Event "ITALIAN FIRST"]
[Site "MYHOME"]
[Date "1999.10.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "LarsenVB"]
[Black "Drago 0.21"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "40/7200"]
{drago work to a fixed (7) depth a used only half of his time}
1. d4 d5 2. e3 e5 3. dxe5 Nc6 4. Bb5 Bc5 5. Bxc6+ bxc6 6. Nf3 Bf5 7. Nc3
Bg4 8. O-O a5 9. Bd2 a4 10. h3 Bc8 11. b3 axb3 12. axb3 Bf5 13. Rxa8 Qxa8
14. g4 Bc8 15. Qa1 Ba6 16. Qa4 f5 17. Ra1 fxg4 18. hxg4 Ne7 19. Qxa6 Qxa6
20. Rxa6 O-O 21. Nd4 Bb4 22. Nxc6 Nxc6 23. Rxc6 g5 24. Rxc7 Rb8 25. Nxd5
Bxd2 26. Nf6+ Kf8 27. e6 Rb7 28. Rxb7 Bxe3 29. Rf7#
{White Mates} 1-0
[Event "ITALIAN FIRST"]
[Site "MYHOME"]
[Date "1999.11.13"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Drago lev.8"]
[Black "LarsenVB"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[TimeControl "40/7800"]
{drago now work to lev. (8) and used his time trice :-(}
1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Bb5 c5 4. a4 a6 5. Bc4 cxd4 6. Bf4 e5 7. Bd2 Nf6 8.
Bg5 Qb6 9. Nd2 Qxb2 10. Rb1 Qa3 11. Qf3 Qxf3 12. Ngxf3 Nc6 13. Rb6 h6 14.
Bxf6 Bxf6 15. O-O O-O 16. Ra1 g5 17. h3 d6 18. Nf1 Bd8 19. Rb2 Ba5 20. Rd1
Bb4 21. Ng3 Bd7 22. Nf5 Bxf5 23. exf5 Rfc8 24. Bd5 a5 25. f6 b6 26. Kh2 Rc7
27. Kg3 Rac8 28. Kg4 Nb8 29. c4 dxc3 30. Rc2 Nd7 31. Kf5 Nc5 32. Rb1 Nxa4
33. h4 gxh4 34. Rh1 b5 35. Rxh4 Nb6 36. Rg4+ Kh8 37. Bb3 Rg8 38. Rxg8+ Kxg8
39. g4 a4 40. Ba2 Ba3 41. g5 hxg5 42. Bb1 b4 43. Re2 b3 44. Bc2 Nd5 45. Be4
c2 46. Re1 Nc3 47. Rg1 Nxe4 48. Kxe4 b2 49. Rxg5+ Kh8 50. Rh5+ Kg8 51. Rg5+
Kh8 52. Rh5+ Kg8 53. Rg5+ Kh8
[Event "Partite Storiche ;-)"]
[Site "LUIGI"]
[Date "2000.01.13"]
[Round "3"]
[White "drago Lev.8"]
[Black "pcchessII Lev.6"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[TimeControl "600"]
{the time dont matter 'cause the 2 program work at a fixed deep}
1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 e5 3. dxe5 Nxe5 4. Nc3 g5 5. Be3 c5 6. Qd5 Qe7 7. Nf3 f6 8.
Nxe5 fxe5 9. Qd2 g4 10. Bc4 Nf6 11. Nd5 Nxd5 12. Qxd5 Rb8 13. Be2 d6 14. b4
b6 15. Bb5+ Kd8 16. O-O cxb4 17. Qd2 Qf7 18. Bg5+ Kc7 19. Qxb4 Bd7 20. Bxd7
Qxd7 21. Qc4+ Kb7 22. Qd5+ Kc7 23. Qc4+ Kb7 24. Qd5+ Kc7 25. Qc4+ Kb7 26.
Qd5+ Kc7 27. Qc4+ Kb7 28. Qd5+ Kc7 29. Qc4+ Kb7 30. Qd5+ Kc7
{draw 3rep.: drago used almost the same time }
ANY COMMENT IS WELCOME
gianluigi
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