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Chess has 2 main elements: 1)Calculating lines like if I play A1 then if the opponent play B1 then I play C1. If I play A1 then if the opponent play B2 then I play C2 if I play A2 then if the opponent.... Despite whatever Kotov said, human calculation is much more messy: 1) My bishop move attacks o...

Note that if you want style and don't care about strength it's possible Rodent IV personalities will never be as good as Rodent III ones, and in this aspect there's no reason to upgrade as IV's improvements would be irrelevant for these purposes (III's personalities could be made stronger at will) ...

Is it possible to use Rodent III personalities in Rodent IV? They would have to be converted. I changed engine name to indicate that incompatibility. Three most important differences are king tropism (from Hakkkpeliitta), space evaluation (which I added specifically to be able to create Morphy pers...

"Planning" engine would play boring, schematic, uninspired chess. How do I know? Because such a sad thing has been done to beautiful game of go, see https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/

Please note speed is language-specific. In C/C++ arrays of precalculated values tend to gain speed. In C# they often happen to lose speed (I haven't tried that on piece/square tables, but for example I noticed that occluded fill bitboards outperformed kindergarten bitboards).

- still a little bit local setups (environment), but almost finished - maybe call it "cleaning" the code. I mean add "-DNO_WORDEXP" and make "-DNO_THREADS" work again, fixing warnings, which also could be understand very similar as fixes - than doing the fixes - I don't know any "dangerous" one - a...

State for today: I collected some issues from posts on this forum and from my mail box, added developemend guidelines in readme and fixed one embarassing bug, bumping version to 0.23. shogi4fun, You got the invitation on GitHub. Please start with adding Your bugfixes, then Chess960, and it should be...

Can Minic detect the problems faster with null move turned off?

OK guys, Rodent IV is on GitHub: https://github.com/nescitus/rodent-iv

shogi4fun, what is Your nick on GitHub?

shogi4fun, I would be happy to have You as a co-author of Rodent IV, and even to consider Your branch a main one from now on. Feel free to publish source with Your changes on GitHub or GitLab, whichever You prefer. I might even add a thing or two in the future. From Your description it seems that Yo...