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Category Archives: Computer Chess
Another round of sparring partners for Prophet3
Back in early March I added aspiration windows to Prophet with a window of 1/3 pawn, as well as some futility pruning and delta pruning. My schedule hasn’t allowed me to do a lot of work on the code since … Continue reading
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chess4j 3.2 is released and it’s magic!
I just released chess4j 3.2. This release is purely about optimizing for speed. That is, there are no changes to the search or evaluation terms. chess4j is now a bitboard engine, and uses magic bitboards for move generation. Simply by … Continue reading
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Prophet’s sparring partners
Several months ago I decided to get a little more rigorous about how I test changes to Prophet. With previous versions of Prophet, I would make a change, run some test suites consisting of a few hundred or a thousand … Continue reading
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chess4j 3.1 is released
I just released version 3.1 of chess4j, my Java based chess engine. This version is about 100 elo stronger than 3.0. The key differences are: The Groovy language is no longer used. Groovy is a fine language for some purposes. … Continue reading
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Prophet is back
After a VERY long absence from server play, the rewrite of my chess engine Prophet is finally far enough along to play some games online. The engine itself has been capable of play for a little while now, but I’ve … Continue reading
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chess4j 3.0 is released!
After a long period of inactivity I’m happy to announce the release of version 3.0 of my Java chess program, chess4j. This version is a good bit stronger than the previous version, though still not as strong as my C/C++ … Continue reading
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chess4j + SQLite
The last time I wrote anything about chess4j, way back in November, I reported that chess4j was using a small in-memory database of opening moves. The program was reading a library of about 500 games from GM Kasparov, which it … Continue reading
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chess4j learns some moves from Kasparov
Ok, “learn” is too strong a word. More accurately, chess4j now has a small opening book database populated with a little over 500 Kasparov games. Before doing any thinking on its own, chess4j will consult this database, and if a … Continue reading
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chess4j 2.0 is released
I’m happy to announce the release of version 2.0 of my chess program, chess4j. This version is a good bit stronger than the previous release, though there is still much to do. The focus of this release has been to … Continue reading
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chess4j gets a little smarter
Over the holidays I managed to find a little time to do some work on chess4j. It felt really good to dust the codebase off and make some improvements that have had real impact on playing strength. Up to this … Continue reading
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