The main 'improvement' is that FrankWalter is now open source. Besides that, the most important changes are how the xboard protocol is parsed and how time is managed for the engine. This should now allow pondering for the engine, and also makes the engine a little bit faster, but otherwise there is no difference in which moves would be played by the engine. In particular, 2.3.2 is just a bugfix for the 2.3.1 release.
Due to the nature of the release, I appreciate any feedback on how FrankWalter behaves in the assorted GUIs and tournament managers, especially when pondering.
One last thing: to avoid anymore confusion, I've standardized the engine name, and gotten rid of the dash. It is now "FrankWalter", just like its aleady spelled on CCRL.
Thanks and good luck with further improvements.
I have changed the main name in the chronology too (just kept the old one in the 'fka' column for 'historical' reasons).
Edit: Oh I see it very soon has its 10th birthday too :)
The main 'improvement' is that FrankWalter is now open source. Besides that, the most important changes are how the xboard protocol is parsed and how time is managed for the engine. This should now allow pondering for the engine, and also makes the engine a little bit faster, but otherwise there is no difference in which moves would be played by the engine. In particular, 2.3.2 is just a bugfix for the 2.3.1 release.
Due to the nature of the release, I appreciate any feedback on how FrankWalter behaves in the assorted GUIs and tournament managers, especially when pondering.
One last thing: to avoid anymore confusion, I've standardized the engine name, and gotten rid of the dash. It is now "FrankWalter", just like its aleady spelled on CCRL.
Rank Name Elo +/- Games Score Draws
1 fw232 ponder 35 75 60 55.0% 30.0%
2 olithink 0 76 60 50.0% 26.7%
3 fw232 0 73 60 50.0% 33.3%
4 fw228 -35 75 60 45.0% 30.0%
indeed I snapped this tournament result at 120 out of 3000 games, because it looked really pretty^^. olithink looks strong here, because FrankWalter in this tournament only uses a 16mb TT.