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I use this for Andscacs, I don't remember why: void afout(const char *fmt, ...) { va_list args; char buffer[4096]; va_start(args, fmt); vsprintf(buffer, fmt, args); va_end(args); fprintf(stdout, "%s", buffer); fflush(stdout); } Probably because you Ctrl+V'ed it from Fruit :) This function is just e...

In Andscacs I tried to do most things in my own way, and once I understood about something better I tried to implement it in my own way also. For example the first move generator was scanning square after square until it found a piece or went out of the board, with a simple For. Only much later I tr...

Mostly when the static evaluation compensates the material.

I use this for Andscacs, I don't remember why:

When I'm downloading Stockfish 270918 at: http://abrok.eu/stockfish/ what happens is that it downloads a file named stockfish_18092721_64.exe. When I double click on that file, a black window pops up saying "Stockfish 270918 64 by T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott" and that was it. No...

I use the free community version. The others are not.

I'd recommend OpenBench . Interesting, what does this OpenBench do exactly? It seems like a wrapper on top of cutechess-cli with some client-server functionality. If it allows me say to test on say two quads at the same time + gather the results then this would cut my testing time in half, which so...

This version is intended for analysis, not for playing. Anyway sure can be used for playing also.

Hi. I plan to make a version of Stockfish that saves the principal variation found in a text file and then loads it again to save analysis time. It will not save the pv itself, but any move in the pv that for example is depth >= 10. The file will be like this, one position per line fen;move;depth Th...