YAGC

[BBauer]

Yet another glaurung clone.

With not so much coding - I added 3 charakters to the source - I succeded to make
glaurung much weaker. Supposed Elo loss ~200.
The following well known position is solved in 4:52 min
How long does your rybka3 take?
[d]n1QBq1k1/5p1p/5KP1/p7/8/8/8/8 w - -
Here is what ICSBF gives:

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10   +60   165     507175 gxh7+ Kh8 Qxa8 a4 Qd5 Qf8 Be7 Qh6+ 
11   +64   191    1163335 gxh7+ Kh8 Qxa8 a4 Qd5 Qf8 Be7 Qh6+ 
12   +60   242    2497861 gxh7+ Kh8 Qxa8 a4 Qd5 Qf8 Be7 Qg7+ 
13   +58   340    5185006 gxh7+ Kh8 Qxa8 a4 Qd5 Qf8 Be7 Qg7+ 
14   +50   684   14635152 gxh7+ Kh8 Qxa8 Qe6+ Kg5 Kxh7 Qh1+ 
15   +43  1320   32117206 gxh7+ Kh8 Qxa8 Qe6+ Kg5 Kxh7 Qh1+
16   +35  2577   66829433 gxh7+ Kh8 Qxa8 Qe6+ Kg5 Kxh7 Qh1+ 
17   +33  5683  152426067 gxh7+ Kh8 Qxa8 Qe6+ Kg5 Kxh7 Qh1+
18   +29  8871  238290570 gxh7+ Kh8 Qxa8 Qe6+ Kg5 Kxh7 Qh1+ 
19   +21 22148  595905968 gxh7+ Kh8 Qxa8 Qe6+ Kg5 Qe5+ Kg4
19 +9977 29184  785846508 Bc7 Qxc8 gxf7+ Kh8 Be5 Qc5 Bb2 Nc7 
20 +9977 29282  788753536 Bc7 Qxc8 gxf7+ Kh8 Be5 Qc5 Bb2 Nc7 
21 +9977 33545  908152308 Bc7 Qxc8 gxf7+ Kh8 Be5 Qc5 Bb2 Nc7 
22 +9977 44118 1200361734 Bc7 Qxc8 gxf7+ Kh8 Be5 Qc5 Bb2 Nc7

Guess I am the only one interested in such a engine.
kind regards
Bernhard

[glorfindel]

Guess I am the only one interested in such a engine.

Yes, I would agree.
On the contrary, Stockfish and Smaug have attracted a lot of attention, as you can see from the corresponding topics. Perhaps there is a reason.