A Fortran 90 chess program (not Winboard or UCI)

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A Fortran 90 chess program (not Winboard or UCI)

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Re: A Fortran 90 chess program (not Winboard or UCI)

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I wouldn't have thought it possible
in so little code...
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Re: A Fortran 90 chess program (not Winboard or UCI)

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smcracraft wrote:...
in so little code...
Well, no competition for micro-Max! :P

From looking at the code (I cannot compile FORTRAN, and did not feel like installing compilers for this offensive language :wink: ) it seems that this is an engine with material-only evaluation, no Quiescence Search, no Iterative Deepening, no move ordering and a fixed-depth search.

That means that even the 1433-character micro-Max 1.6, (which does have centralization and some Pawn-structure evaluation, recapture QS, ID, some move sorting through IID, and plays by number of searched nodes) should not have any trouble totally crushing it. 8-)