Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 11:49:49 02/21/00
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On February 21, 2000 at 05:29:58, Colin Frayn wrote: >Reading lots of stories about how many good professional programs are coached by >GMs and such like, I was wondering if there'e anyone out there who wouldn't mind >playtesting my program, ColChess, and telling me what needs to be done to >improve it. Unfortunately I'm a terrible chess player so it beats me every >time, but I'm sure an IM wouldn't have many problems beating it and I'd be most >iterested to know how to improve the analysis function, and especially the >endgame play. > >I also need to know if any bad lines have somehow made their way into the >opening book. > >Just thought it would be worth asking. > >Source code and .exe (currently v5.6 isn't compiled for windows but there's a >v5.5 exe there. I'll compile 5.6 soon) are on my website; >http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~cmf/chess/index.html > >It's playing quite well now after a few modifications, and should get an ELO of >maybe 2000-2100 on a decent machine. Because I've opted for the brute force >(complicated evaluation, shallow depth, no guesswork or null moves) method, the >static analysis function is much more important than if I'd opted for a really >deep, tactical game. > >Cheers, >Colin I am trying to compile it for Solaris (should not be difficult, but I am having some problems). Does it produce some sort of logfiles? Are you interested in something besides the game scores? José.
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