Introducing Glass chess engine

[trojanfoe]

Thanks for the quick update guys. It's now working correctly and gets 104 out of 108 in the mate test (which can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/gekochess/mate-epd).

A couple of other comments:

1) I don't think the UCI info line it sends with currmove and currmovenumber is correct:

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08:30:27 <glass 'info depth 9 currmove b1c2 currmovenumber 20 12342422'

I think that should be:

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08:30:27 <glass 'info depth 9 currmove b1c2 currmovenumber 20 nodes 12342422'

However I think I have seen other engines send the currmove info like this as well but I don't think this conforms to the UCI spec.

2) If it finds a 'mate in one' you should end the search as it's not going to find anything better than that is it?

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Processing ..\..\tests\mate.epd:67 'Mate in 1 Test 6'
+---------------+
|-|.|-|.|-|.|-|.| ply=0 (wtm)
|.|-|.|-|.|N|.|-| flags=
|-|.|-|.|-|.|-|K| ep=0
|.|-|.|-|.|-|.|-| hmclock=0
|-|.|-|R|-|.|-|n|
|.|-|.|-|.|-|.|k|
|-|.|-|.|-|Q|-|.|
|.|-|.|-|.|-|.|-|
+---------------+
bm Ng5
bm Rxh4
id Mate in 1 Test 6

1 00.016 +18.26 1 (0.062knps) Qxh4+
1 00.016 +18.31 2 (0.125knps) Rxh4+
2 00.016 #1 41 (2.562knps) Rxh4+
2 00.016 #1 382 (23.875knps) Rxh4+
3 00.016 #1 422 (26.375knps) Rxh4+
4 00.031 #1 6438 (207.677knps) Rxh4+
5 00.062 #1 93284 (1504.580knps) Rxh4+
6 00.374 #1 1163294 (3110.411knps) Rxh4+
7 02.964 #1 9542518 (3219.473knps) Rxh4+
glass gives Rxh4 in 09.516: PASS (63/67)

Cheers,
Andy

[swami]

Hi Andy,

What's the name of your engine? Is it still private?

Thanks.

[trojanfoe]

It's called Chimp and it's private at the moment as releasing it would cause me great embarassment I will announce it when it's nearer completion - which won't be anytime soon.

Cheers,
Andy

[swami]

It's called Chimp and it's private at the moment as releasing it would cause me great embarassment I will announce it when it's nearer completion - which won't be anytime soon.

Cheers,
Andy

Thanks for the info, Andy. I'll be looking forward to testing it out once it's released.