Today I published both engines (mACE and iCE) to my homepage, so whoever wants to give them I try can now do so.
I also started a little tutorial about chess programming there, so who is interested might have a look at
http://www.fam-petzke.de/chess_home_en.shtml.
A little space to track the efforts spent on my hobby: Chess Programming
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
About to release the 1st public version
After the last tournament where the ice engine did not so bad, I decided to take a little rest from the core engine programming. I plan to make the engine available for download via my private web site and have to do some preparation for that first. I will post the first public release of my engine as soon as this is finished.
Stay tuned !
Stay tuned !
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Small private tournament
I felt it is time to match the engine against some other engines to see how it performs and also to have a baseline to measure progress over time. I ran a small tournament of 6 engines. I took some of the free engines available on the net and tried to avoid ones known to be very strong. There is no point in proofing that ice is still a weak engine.
The engines I selected were BB Chess, Delphil2_6, Kanguruh93, Mediocre and Vicki.
Ice finished 3rd place scoring 9,5 points in 15 games. Seems that ice plays somewhere in the range of those engines and is not a total looser anymore. I'm a little proud and feel the days come closer where I'm able to make it available for download.
Here are the tournament details
Arena tournament
45 games played / Tournament is finished
Tournament start: 2011.03.05, 23:56:04
Latest update: 2011.03.06, 10:20:49
Site/ Country: Germany
Level: Tournament 40/5
Hardware: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHzDual 2394 MHz with 1.992 MB Memory
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
Table created with: Arena 2.0.1
The engines I selected were BB Chess, Delphil2_6, Kanguruh93, Mediocre and Vicki.
Ice finished 3rd place scoring 9,5 points in 15 games. Seems that ice plays somewhere in the range of those engines and is not a total looser anymore. I'm a little proud and feel the days come closer where I'm able to make it available for download.
Here are the tournament details
Arena tournament
| Rank | Engine | Score | De | Me | Ic | BB | Vi | Ka | S-B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delphil2_6a | 12,0/15 | · ·· | 110 | 100 | 111 | 111 | 111 | 69,50 |
| 2 | Mediocre | 10,5/15 | 001 | · ·· | 11= | 001 | 111 | 111 | 57,75 |
| 3 | Ice Latest | 9,5/15 | 011 | 00= | · ·· | 101 | ==1 | 111 | 55,25 |
| 4 | BBChess0_99b | 8,5/15 | 000 | 110 | 010 | · ·· | 1=1 | 111 | 41,75 |
| 5 | Vicki | 4,5/15 | 000 | 000 | ==0 | 0=0 | · ·· | 111 | 13,75 |
| 6 | Kanguruh93 | 0,0/15 | 000 | 000 | 000 | 000 | 000 | · ·· | 0,00 |
45 games played / Tournament is finished
Tournament start: 2011.03.05, 23:56:04
Latest update: 2011.03.06, 10:20:49
Site/ Country: Germany
Level: Tournament 40/5
Hardware: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHzDual 2394 MHz with 1.992 MB Memory
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
Table created with: Arena 2.0.1
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