Nebiyu problems

[PK]

www.koziol.home.pl/oberon.zip

(without the final dot, which forum software interpreted as the part of the address)

as for Monte Carlo, I once hacked a GPL-ed random-moving bot called "Brown" to do simulations (www.koziol.home.pl/hopeless.zip), but the code is ugly and conforming with rather unpleasant data structure (2-dimensional board with no edge squares). The only think it helped me was breaking a mental barrier concerning MC algorithms. The only thing it can help others - it's GTP protocol implementation inherited after Brown.

[Daniel Shawul]

Thanks that worked now. Is ChessV downloadable ?
I think we will get enough people since it is only a change in the move generation and king_attacks buisness that could be a little bit tricky since one could use that in many places which could be forgotten.
I went through a long long way for other reasons but to support Spartan should be a piece of cake, hopefully more and more people see it

[Greg Strong]

Thanks that worked now. Is ChessV downloadable ?
I think we will get enough people since it is only a change in the move generation and king_attacks buisness that could be a little bit tricky since one could use that in many places which could be forgotten.
I went through a long long way for other reasons but to support Spartan should be a piece of cake, hopefully more and more people see it

Daniel,

You can get the latest release of ChessV from http://samiam.org/chessv/. No installation program; just unzip and run ChessV.exe to play with the GUI, or ChessV_winboard.exe to use with WinBoard.

This version doesn't have Spartan incorporated yet. I'll be releasing an update before too long, but in the meantime I'm happy to send an exe of the latest and greatest to anyone who is interested. Just drop me a PM with your email address and I'll send it to you. Let me know if you want 32-bit or 64-bit (or both.)

Thanks for your interest,
Greg

[hgm]

Nebiyu is qite strong, We sorely need Quadrox to stand upt to it!

[Greg Strong]

Nebiyu is qite strong, We sorely need Quadrox to stand upt to it!

Probably... But I've got another update to send you tonight before you pass judgement. I've now got ChessV playing Spartan in full bitboard mode and it is about 50% faster overall But that's about as far as I can go with that engine. If that still doesn't do the trick, then it will require Quadrox ... (Which I might or might not get around to anytime soon. I'm working on about four different projects now, all chess-variant related.)

[PK]

Oberon 0.03 will probably come on Sunday, but all it can do is to steal some more points form FairtMax.

[Daniel Shawul]

Hi Gregory
Thanks! 32bit windows is fine. Please send it to dshawul at yahoo.com. I am amazed ChessV supports 50 variants ! Must have taken you a long time.
Daniel

[PK]

Hello Gregory,

I'd like to get that recent ChessV, too: pp.koziol at gmail.com