Keep up the good work Tord,the most important thing for me personaly is that the computer chess fever has got you once againTord Romstad wrote:I'm afraid not, at least not available to the public. Technically, it wouldn't be difficult to let someone compile a Windows binary, but I don't want to release a new official or semi-official version just a couple of days after people have started testing Glaurung 2.1 seriously. Unless some extremely serious bug is found in Glaurung 2.1, the earliest possible release date for a new Windows version of Glaurung is some time shortly after the IOPCCC in the last weekend of June.David Dahlem wrote:Any chance for a Windows version of the development version Glaurung 080516?
In case someone is curious: The only difference between Glaurung 2.1 and Glaurung 080516 is that 080516 evaluates space (by a simple formula which just awards a bonus based on the number of empty, safe squares for the minor pieces on ranks 2-4, and on the locations of the central pawns). My belief that 080516 is stronger is based on a self-play match between the two versions, which 080516 won by a very significant margin. Self-play tends to exaggerate the difference between two engine versions which differ only by an evaluation term, so I don't expect 080516 to be that much stronger against other engines, but it is almost certainly at least a little stronger.
Tord
BTW,it's logical to keep the current version private for the upcoming tournament,so,take your time Tord....