Divide/perft question

[Eric VanderHelm]

Hello everyone!

I'm working on my first chess engine, and I'm trying to debug my move generation/make/unmake routines. Which engine do you use to cross reference your results? I have a divide routine implemented but no engine with which to compare my results.

To this point I've used the wiki and crafty's perft, but (correct me if I'm wrong) it doesn't have divide. I could write my own divide for crafty, but I'm hoping there's a reliable open source engine with which I can easily enter a FEN and then run divide. Thanks in advance!

EVH

[AndrewGrant]

By Divide do you mean; Show PERFT counts for EACH initial move? If that is the case, StockFish does this.

[Eric VanderHelm]

Thanks for the quick response. Yeah, I've seen the perft for each initial move called divide a couple places. Probably should have checked StockFish before creating a thread but oh well.

[hgm]

qperft can divide at any level.

[Ajedrecista]

Hello Eric:

You also might to try JetChess: it is a fast hashed perft counter with an easy-to-use nice GUI, but it is not open source.

JetChess_v1.0.0.0.zip (480.2 KB)

The strong point I see in qperft (executable and source) is its ability to divide at any level, as Muller said. For example, at the starting position, it can divide in a3, a4, ..., Nh3 (one level of divide with 20 moves) but also in a3, a6; a3, a5; ...; a3, Nh6; ...; Nh3, Nh6 (two levels of divide with 400 sequences of moves); and so on.

Good luck with your engine!

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.