BagaturChess -an interesting chess engine

[Sylwy]

Hi all !

Here you can find this engine:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bagaturchess/

Bagatur Chess is programmed in Java by Krasimir Topchiyski/Bulgaria.
The communication protocol used is UCI. They aren't much chess engines Java/UCI. Only six : CuckooChess,Rival Chess , Carballo ,Flux ,Mediocre Chess and Eden. Unfortunately this BagaturChess is a .jar file , so we need a .bat file to run it. Only Arena (Miky masterpiece) can run .bat files. Maybe a day our kind Mr.Jim Ablett will compile an .exe file from his source code ( available in archive).

Another question is the hash used by this engine: only 2 MB ( insteed 64) like you see in the below first image. In his .bat file we can read:
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REM Sets the memory (in megabytes) which the WHOLE java process will use.
REM One significant part of this memory (up to 90%) will be used for Transposition Table.
set PROCESS_MEMORY=256M

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In fact Java process uses 280 MB (see the task manager) and the engine only 2 MB - like you can see in the second image.
It's a bug or my error. Or an Arena problem ( mamma mia !) ?

Regards,
SilvianR

[Ron Murawski]

Hi all !

They aren't much chess engines Java/UCI. Only six : CuckooChess,Rival Chess , Carballo ,Flux ,Mediocre Chess and Eden.

Regards,
SilvianR

What about Amyan, MagnumChess, and POS?

Hint: search the Chess Engines List page for 'Java'
http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php? ... ngine_list

Ron

[Sylwy]

Hi all !

They aren't much chess engines Java/UCI. Only six : CuckooChess,Rival Chess , Carballo ,Flux ,Mediocre Chess and Eden.

Regards,
SilvianR

What about Amyan, MagnumChess, and POS?

Hint: search the Chess Engines List page for 'Java'
http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php? ... ngine_list

Ron

Hi Ron !

Well , I know about Java Amyan -but it's just an old applet.
POS is also on my computers but.........is soooooo weak !
I'm impardonable for MagnumChess. This Canadian engine is one of my favourite Java apps. ( together with Cuckoo and Flux). Even the kind Mr. Jim Ablett had compiled sometimes a speed version for me.
Deh , my age speaks !
About Computer-Chess Wiki. It's my favourite computer chess site. STASI works day & night here.

This BagaturChess is an interesting engine.Will be nice for everybody to use it in all UCI GUIs. Otherwise Miky & his Arena will be by far the number one in this area !

Have a nice weekend !
SilvianR