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pedrox
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DanaSah and DanaSah-Z

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A couple of days ago I published a new version of DanaSah, version 5.06, the release of this version is to play the 5th division of the CCRL, no major changes from the version 4.88 or 5.00.

Now I have published DanaSah-Z, this is a derivative of version 4.88 and it is specially designed to play against humans with limited strength.

https://sites.google.com/site/danasah/english/home
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Re: Dana Z & Ruxy ! -:)

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pedrox wrote:
Now I have published DanaSah-Z, this is a derivative of version 4.88 and it is specially designed to play against humans with limited strength.

https://sites.google.com/site/danasah/english/home

Thank you, Maestro Pedro !

I will study all the evening this new Dana ! :lol:

Best to you !
SilvianR :wink:
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Re: DanaSah and DanaSah-Z

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Glad to hear news about you and DanaSah.

After a quick look I've seen that the see.c file has added some new code and functions: hasn't it imrpoved DanaSah's strength?

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Re: DanaSah and DanaSah-Z

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pocopito wrote:Glad to hear news about you and DanaSah.

After a quick look I've seen that the see.c file has added some new code and functions: hasn't it imrpoved DanaSah's strength?

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E Diaz
Hi Emilio.

I have not been successful in implementing a complete Static Exchange Evaluator in DanaSah. Tree is reduced and sometimes much on tactical positions but also it is reducing the number of nodes per second. I think this gives + - 5 Elo if I use SEE to cut into the quiesce.

For this reason I'm still using a badCapture function, which checks if a piece eat antother smaller of the contrary, if this piece is protected by a pawn this mean say it's a bad capture, I use this function to sort the captures into the search and to cut into the quiesce and I think this gives me about 15 Elo points.