MadChess 1.3 Released

[emadsen]

I've added 50 to 90 ELO to MadChess, depending on the time control. I've finally broken the master barrier! I estimate MadChess' playing strength is ~2200 ELO at blitz time control (5m + 3s) and 2220 ELO at rapid time control (15m + 10s)

http://www.madchess.net/post/MadChess-13-Released.aspx

[Graham Banks]

Thanks Erik.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Thanks and good luck.....
Dr.D

[Steve Maughan]

Hi Erik - Thanks!

Steve

[lucasart]

I've added 50 to 90 ELO to MadChess, depending on the time control. I've finally broken the master barrier! I estimate MadChess' playing strength is ~2200 ELO at blitz time control (5m + 3s) and 2220 ELO at rapid time control (15m + 10s)

http://www.madchess.net/post/MadChess-13-Released.aspx

Congratulations

Does that make it the strongest C# engine (after Portfish) ?

Now here's my little tip to improve your program. In my experience, most of the ELO I got in DiscoCheck was actually by fixing bugs and removing (or simplifying) code.

So it's well worth doing some unit testing. Also profiling to improve raw speed (sometimes you find bottlenecks that you didn't think of).

[emadsen]

Thanks. I believe the strongest C# engine, other than Portfish, is Pupsi. The strongest managed language engine I know of is Cuckoo Chess (Java). Both are rated in the 2500s.

I believe you're right. Time for unit testing, debug asserts, and simplification.

[fern]

Hi Etik.
Does not work in Arena, neither in Hiarcs explorer gui.
Simply it does not play.
Not even forcing it to play.
Have you tried it in those guis?

Fern