engine Rocinante is available.

[Andres Valverde]

Hola,
Rocinante 1.0 engine is available (source + win32 executable)

This is an UCI engine based on the algorithm PB* .B* probability based search )
This first version is dedicated to reinvent, demonstrate, evaluate the validity of this algorithm so
it lack of the usual improvements that own modern engines (Zobrist hash + transposition table,
futility, late move reduction, end game tablebase ...) and evaluation is just the simplified UFO.

The reference used to develop PB* in this engine is B* Probability Based Search

I hope my implementation of PB* resemble the original.

Rocinante is able to fight some games against TSCP 1.81 (Blitz 2/6
+35-51=14) so milestone reached.


Happy testing, cloning...

Let me know of any issue/bug.

Regards,Antonio.

Congrats Antonio, shall take a look

[Jim Ablett]

The reference used to develop PB* in this engine is B* Probability Based Search

I've uploaded the paper which is in postscript format to an online viewer
for easy viewing.

http://view.samurajdata.se/psview.php?i ... 408&page=1

Jim.