Sunday, September 28, 2014

Elektro 1.0b

Workers marching together to victory!

Another small improvement: now the engine is more balanced, and points to the search for continuations positional and speculative.
Also in this case,

This is NOT a new version, but only a slight improvement of the original version.

For download, go to Download Page.

Heartily,
Otto dr. Schmidt

Friday, September 26, 2014

New Time Manager.

Elektro ver. 1a

Thanks to the new TM, workers now enjoy better performance


This is NOT a new version, but I have limited myself to change the TM.
 
The current Time Manager is unsatisfactory, so, I proceeded to write a new one.
The new TM is still not perfect, but it gives the engine better performance, especially in blitz-games.


For download, see the Download Page, at the top and to the right of blog page.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Elektro is born!


Another Ippo-derivate??? Ooooh, have mercy!!

Ok, seriously.
  • First: this is only a programming exercise, done for mere personal entertainment.
  • Second: Igorrit, in my opinion, it was a more interesting engine than Ivanhoe. I have tried to change and improve this interesting project.
After much work, the engine has been completely overhauled, in almost all its parts. I can now say, with security, that Elektro is not the usual Ippolit-clone, but is now an (almost) independent engine.

My dream: to be able to get closer to strength of the three current leaders (StockFisch, Komodo, Houdini).
Unfortunately, the engine it is still not as strong as I expected. There is still much work to do!


P.S. In homage to the Ippolit's authors, I gave to the blog a graphic style "old USSR"

Note: for download, see the Download Page (up and right of the blog page)