ZCT 3.2442 by Zach Wegner - JA Windows builds available

[Jim Ablett]

ZCT 3.2442 by Zach Wegner
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zct/

Windows x64 & win32 Intel compiler 10 p.g.o
& Gcc-cygwin SMP builds.

I had some problems compiling the smp version
in native Windows, so I compiled it with Cygwin. A bit
slower than the Intel builds and only 32 bit. I'm
this will be sorted out soon.

Available from my homepage.

Jim.

[Tony Thomas]

Fair enough..another strong engine..

[swami]

Wow! Great Release, Thanks Zach! I have always found the engine's playing style to be attractive.

Had a great fun chatting with ya at CCT

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Fair enough..another strong engine..

I second that Tony,a great and awaited for a long time release

[Jim Ablett]

There'a a ponder bug in the Intel builds.

Read here> http://wbforum.vpittlik.org/viewtopic.php?t=7318

I found a fix. New compiles should be up later.

Jim.

[F. Bluemers]

There'a a ponder bug in the Intel builds.

Like I care about some ponderbug
My tours run without ponder
Thanks Zach and Jim

Best
Fonzy

[Jim Ablett]

There's an update available on my homepage now.

It fixes the ponder bug and also a workaround fix for
the 'too early mate result' bug.

Jim.

[Jim Ablett]

I forgot to mention egbb support in activated, but it is non-configurable at the moment.
The EGBB folder must be placed in ZCT's engine folder.

Jim.

[Graham Banks]

Thanks Zach and Jim.

[Gandalf]

Looking forward to trying the engine, however...

In cmddef.c:

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print("id name ZCT%s author Zach Wegner\n", ZCT_VERSION);

Should be:

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print("id name ZCT%s\nid author Zach Wegner\n", ZCT_VERSION);

Which causes some trouble under Chessbase 9.