Heron impossible engine

[seyyedparsakhatami]

hi there!
I'm a programmer from Iran, I wrote my engine using Microsoft visual studio 2012, it based on C++. I started writing since about 6 month ago.
My engine's platform is Windows.
estimated elo: about upper than 3100!
Heron impossible can beats all of engines except Houdini and SF and Komodo.

I'm ready for Answering your questions.

Greetings,
Seyyed Mostafa Khatami.

[elcabesa]

a warm welcome to you and your engine

[Werner]

hi there!
I'm a programmer from Iran, I wrote my engine using Microsoft visual studio 2012, it based on C++. I started writing since about 6 month ago.
My engine's platform is Windows.
estimated elo: about upper than 3100!
Heron impossible can beats all of engines except Houdini and SF and Komodo.

I'm ready for Answering your questions.
Greetings,
Seyyed Mostafa Khatami.

Hi Seyyed,
Looks like you wrote a very strong engine in about 6 months! Here are my questions:
- will you make the engine public ?
- did you start by scratch ?
- or did you start with source code of another public engine?
- can you write more about your engine and test results?

Werner
CEGT Team

[seyyedparsakhatami]

Hi Seyyed,
Looks like you wrote a very strong engine in about 6 months! Here are my questions:
- will you make the engine public ?
- did you start by scratch ?
- or did you start with source code of another public engine?
- can you write more about your engine and test results?

Werner
CEGT Team

It is not yet public but if would you mind to test it I'm ready give it
only to you, yes I had started by scratch, you can see results after
testing Heron.

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

what kind of protocols will be supported to run your application on external GUIs?

UCI
http://www.shredderchess.com/download.html

WinBoard / CECP
http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/WinBo ... -intf.html

A survey of appropriate chess interfaces contains CCWiki here:
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=c ... pport_list

Is the feature "SMP" = Symmetrical MultiProcessing, available too?

What´s about a Linux / Mac OS X edition and an own interface to start the
engine?

Best wishes,

Norbert

[kgburcham]

hi there!
I'm a programmer from Iran, I wrote my engine using Microsoft visual studio 2012, it based on C++. I started writing since about 6 month ago.
My engine's platform is Windows.
estimated elo: about upper than 3100!
Heron impossible can beats all of engines except Houdini and SF and Komodo.
I'm ready for Answering your questions.
Greetings,
Seyyed Mostafa Khatami.

usually we see these posts around April 1st, but Dec 7th is ok by me.

funny post
kgburcham

[Aser Huerga]

hi there!
I'm a programmer from Iran, I wrote my engine using Microsoft visual studio 2012, it based on C++. I started writing since about 6 month ago.
My engine's platform is Windows.
estimated elo: about upper than 3100!
Heron impossible can beats all of engines except Houdini and SF and Komodo.
I'm ready for Answering your questions.
Greetings,
Seyyed Mostafa Khatami.

usually we see these posts around April 1st, but Dec 7th is ok by me.

funny post
kgburcham

You made me laugh even more than the first post, seriously

[kasinp]

hi there!
I'm a programmer from Iran, I wrote my engine using Microsoft visual studio 2012, it based on C++. I started writing since about 6 month ago.
My engine's platform is Windows.
estimated elo: about upper than 3100!
Heron impossible can beats all of engines except Houdini and SF and Komodo.
I'm ready for Answering your questions.
Greetings,
Seyyed Mostafa Khatami.

usually we see these posts around April 1st, but Dec 7th is ok by me.

funny post
kgburcham

It is not often that the thread title is this appropriate.
PK

[ThomasJMiller]

I would be glad to test your engine against about 50 engines using my set of positions (about 8000). Let me know if you are interested.

[Steve Maughan]

Hi Seyyed,

(...)I started writing since about 6 month ago.
My engine's platform is Windows.
estimated elo: about upper than 3100!

If true, this would be quite remarkable.

Be warned - this group is not impressed simply by such claims. You will only get respect if the engine does in fact play at a high level (even 2700 ELO would be impressive) and passes the stringent clone detection tests.

You will garner little if it fails the clone tests.

So my questions are,

- How did you make such rapid progress? What was the secret?
- Does your engine have any new search techniques?
- What is it's playing style (maybe you could post 100 games)

Best regards,

Steve