I've updated my website with Schola 1.0.2. Mostly this is fixes to pondering. In particular Olivier found a bug that I had already tracked down where it would use the wrong position to search for a book move when in ponder move and if the opponent played the "expected" move it would respond with an illegal one.
This version may be slightly slower than the previous one. My engine is single threaded but the Winboard logic is in a different thread. Unfortunately both can access the repetition hash table and, again just when in ponder mode, this led to troubles. For now I've used a very cheap and inefficient lock so that might slow things a little.
I've included Swami's logo in this release - thanks!
This also has some minor tweaks from Dann Corbit and the addition of some code to detect draws due to inefficient material. Thanks!
There are no improvements to Schola's playing ability I'm reworking the evaluation substantially and hope that the next version understands that protected passed pawns are powerful and stripping the King's pawn protection is dangerous! I'm tired of watching opponent's routinely destroy Schola's pawns and then march theirs down the board!
_No one can hit as hard as life.But it ain’t about how hard you can hit.It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.How much you can take and keep moving forward….
I'm reworking the evaluation substantially and hope that the next version understands that protected passed pawns are powerful and stripping the King's pawn protection is dangerous! I'm tired of watching opponent's routinely destroy Schola's pawns and then march theirs down the board!
