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by Toadofsky
Thu Jul 02, 2015 8:16 pm
Forum: Help, Suggestions, Etc.
Topic: Posts are not published (polyglot)
Replies: 1
Views: 22085

Posts are not published (polyglot)

I submitted a couple posts regarding the polyglot engine adapter (which I'd like to clone from Muller's git repository and customize). Could you please check if they got caught in the spam filter?

Thanks in advance.
by Toadofsky
Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:05 pm
Forum: Programming and Technical Discussions
Topic: Greetings, and a new engine
Replies: 2
Views: 3117

Re: Greetings, and a new engine

Well done! I quite enjoyed the engine description as well!

Your web page mentions EloStat. I have a Stockfish fork which I'd like to test at a variety of settings, to determine its "Elo" rating. Any advice you can provide would be greatly appreciated. :)
by Toadofsky
Thu Jul 02, 2015 5:25 pm
Forum: Programming and Technical Discussions
Topic: quiescence search (best practices)
Replies: 9
Views: 9407

Re: quiescence search (best practices)

I don't claim to know the best practice, but a practical solution may be to allow generation of illegal moves such as BxK (which would only occur in illegal positions) and to disallow move generation when the player to move has no king.
by Toadofsky
Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:49 pm
Forum: Engines, GUIs, Books and Platforms
Topic: Polyglot adapter git clone
Replies: 1
Views: 2726

Polyglot adapter git clone

I am interested in using the Polyglot adapter to play opening books on Stockfish's behalf. I am further interested in customizing polyglot to play variants as I have started to do so here on Github .

I have forgotten how I managed to git clone the polyglot repository in the first place, and from ...
by Toadofsky
Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:39 pm
Forum: Engines, GUIs, Books and Platforms
Topic: LiChess Engine
Replies: 1
Views: 3252

Re: LiChess Engine

As maintainer of the Stockfish fork used by lichess, I'm unfamiliar with that user.