Zeppelin Chess Engine

[ChickenMan4236]

Hello,
I've expected, that v0.1.0 is going to be stronger than the previous version, but I didn't expect, that it can achieve 1900elo!

I know about the problem with finding endgame patterns, for now it actually lacks any algorithms for endgames, it follows a normal tree search. I assume checkmates Rook+King vs King requires many moves and it doesn't have time to search the tree to that depth. I'm currently working on better pruning, after that I'm going to find some way of handling the endgames checkmate detection.

out of curiosity: why is this in engine origins?

I didn't know which subforum is correct for this kind of threads, I've seen some other homemade chess engine thread here and that's why I posted it here. Is there any way to move it somewhere else?

[Aleks Peshkov]

Transposition Tables, NMP, LMR should push engine to 2200+ Elo

[ChickenMan4236]

Hello everyone,
I would like to announce a new Zeppelin update https://github.com/jszczerbinsky/zeppel ... tag/v0.2.0
I've fixed some bugs, that made the search instable, I've also added some new pruning techniques and adapted history heuristic for sorting silent moves.

[Ras]

Moderation: Moved the topic from Engine Origins to this forum.