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by johnwbyrd
Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:12 pm
Forum: Programming and Technical Discussions
Topic: Speed more important than accuracy?
Replies: 3
Views: 2273

Re: Speed more important than accuracy?

Respect to the great Bob Hyatt :) Thank you for both myself and the legions of wannabe chess programmers that you so graciously donate your time to help.
by johnwbyrd
Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:29 pm
Forum: Programming and Technical Discussions
Topic: Speed more important than accuracy?
Replies: 3
Views: 2273

Speed more important than accuracy?

Dear wise chess programmers, I have an interesting riddle for you.

So I've written this fairly primitive chess engine that does a very basic evaluation. One of its evaluations is a mobility calculation, which is basically just the number of available moves in any position. It added this number to ...
by johnwbyrd
Sun Jan 25, 2015 6:19 am
Forum: Programming and Technical Discussions
Topic: Greetings, and a new engine
Replies: 2
Views: 3114

Greetings, and a new engine

Greetings all. I'm very new at chess programming, having only completed my first engine called Superpawn. The engine is a bit of a toy, but it seems to play a mostly legal game of chess. Playing strength seems to be about the level of the Tarrasch Toy Engine or Tom's Simple Chess Program -- it's ...
by johnwbyrd
Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:18 pm
Forum: Programming and Technical Discussions
Topic: Greetings
Replies: 0
Views: 1937

Greetings

It's quite a pleasure to see H.G. Muller and Bob Hyatt in these forums. Gentlemen, we have not met, but you've both been a great inspiration to me.

I've put together a very primitive UCI chess engine called Superpawn, which should not be taken very seriously. It plays a mostly legal game of chess ...