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I was heavily addicted to that game in the 90's. We had one in the game room on UNM campus. I wrote a simple version that played on the c64, it was complete, but weak (about mushman strength), and quite slow. There was a much stronger version for the PC back then called smartalec. I don't remember w...

bnemias wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 27, 2018 8:41 pm

It's worth playing with optimization level more than some of those.

Oh yeah. GCC version still matters in my experience. use 4.9.x if possible. The newer ones suck for chess.

$(CC) $(CF) -DVERSION=\"$(VERSION)\" ./src/*.c -o $(OUT) -march=armv8-a+crc -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a53 -ftree-vectorize -mfloat-abi=hard -O3 $(LF) All of this seems completely gratuitous: -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mtune=cortex-a53 -ftree-vectorize -mfloat-abi=hard It's worth playing with optimizati...

Glad to be rid of version 2 finally.

It is possible to install more styles so that users may choose the way the board looks. Any interest in this?

The default style isn't bad, but it isn't my favorite either.
I'd at least add prosilver special edition
I like proformell

It's telling that all the programmers I've seen with enough knowledge to have the capability of fixing Winboard to make it usable have chosen to instead, program their own GUI from scratch, with sound design choices, as if starting from a good foundation from scratch was easier than dealing with Wi...

- At this stage I do not have Linux, Mac or Android compiles. Hopefully someone will provide these at some stage. There was no makefile, and I'm not going to fool with it myself. But for those wanting GNU/linux, it is easy enough for a basic build with this command line: gcc -O3 -march=native *.cpp...

Time control 30 minutes more than enough for these games. Unless they want more viewers getting bored. Different strokes for different folks. I expected I would like the rapids more than the LTC games, but I didn't. I wasn't alone either. My biggest complaint was related to chat. If it goes anythin...

Horrible for most everything, but especially chess.

These are downclocked by 600 Mhz, and the cores doubled from 2 to 4. It is all marketing hype-- Intel claims "productivity" increase, and engaget writes "speedier".

right, reason is both top engines are fully clueless about the opening. for example, taking the Dutch. after 1.d4 f5, there is a single move that would give white advantage and winning chances, 2.d5! You don't explain why this should be the case. 2. d5, does nothing to help develop, thus is a waste...

I use both, extensively. My main machine is 64-bit running devuan. Prior to that, I ran 64 bit XP since 2009, so I am no stranger to 64-bit. However, the only reason I ran 64 bit was because of chess. The fact is I no longer care about getting the maximum possible nps, and as such, there is no other...