Released Bremboce 0.6 Java winboard engine

[ogam]

Gladly, it's available on Jim Ablett's site:

http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Gianluca

[plattyaj]

Jim Ablett has kindly compiled the jar file with Excelsior Jet to have x86 native code but on my pc Athlon 64 X2 seems slower than the one in Java byte code.
Thank you!

The Sun JIT is pretty capable these days ... it will even re-optimize already compiled byte-code if it detects it needs it. Not that the best Java implementation is likely to get as good as a program written in a true compiled language ... yet!

I enjoyed playing a few blitz games with Bremboce against my engine Schola. In most of them Bremboce got the edge but then just got out-searched. It's pretty difficult when Schola was getting to depth 17 and Bremboce got to 8. I suspect on longer games Bremboce would beat Schola hands-down ... looks like it will be a good partner as I try to improve Schola's evaluation.

Andy.

[ogam]

The direct link to the page of Ciro's site with the test is this:

http://vigo.altervista.org/TT/Test_Tourney.htm


Gianluca

[ogam]

I've released the version 0.6.1 with two bug fix:

- Fixed a bug in time management
- Fixed a bug in the assignment of bonus for exchanging pieces when the engine is in adavantage
- Changed the bonus to avoid bad trades

http://bremboce.cisana.com/download_en.php

Gianluca