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It seems that Belofte 0.9.8 is stronger than all the partners that I selected yesterday. :) But I have the impression that the Windows version is relatively weaker than the Linux version (unless it is my tests which are false). I don't get the same hierarchy under Windows and under Linux, I don't kn...

Alouette 0.1.0 is available. Now the program uses an opening book in Spracklen format. I took this idea from the program La Dame Blanche by Marc-Philippe Huget.

Otherwise it's the same program, with small corrections here and there.

Hello Yves! Thank you for your answer. I will made a compilation test under Windows with your latest code. Meanwhile, I am interested in finding 'bad' programs to pair belofte. I want to benchmark its improvements along the way. If your engines Alouette, Enxadrista and Ram are bad enough, could you ...

Hello! Thank you for the Windows binary of v0.9.8. I am testing it, with CuteChess Cli. In one game Belofte played an illegal move, in fact an empty string (if I understand correctly). Here is my command line: %cc% -rounds 2 ^ -engine conf="Belofte 0.9.8" ^ -engine conf="Belofte 0.2.7" ^ -engine con...

The CT800 has such a book format, though a bit modified. A trailing '?' indicates a bad move as usual, and 'x' indicates a move that's not bad but doesn't really fit the engine style. It has around 23k moves in 13k positions. Note that it isn't optimised for strength, but variety. The book is compi...

Anton wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 19, 2020 7:24 pm

You might find the utility pgn-extract helpful.

Yes, indeed. I had never tried it, and I didn't imagine that it could do that. Thank you!

If you can read/parse SAN moves, it means you can read/parse easily a PGN file with multi-games! I suggest you use opening books in PGN format - they are just multi-games PGN files. It is a kind of standard but not TSCP books and you can find easily many PGN books on the Internet. If you still want...

CMCanavessi wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 19, 2020 2:57 am

Roland, I downloaded Alouette 0.0.9 and there are 2 binaries inside the zip file, alouette64 and random64. What is random64, a random mover? So kind of the same engine without eval?

Thank you for your question. Yes, the engine named random64 is a pure random mover, based on Alouette code.

Hello! I am looking for opening books in the same format that the one used by TSCP: g1f3 g8f6 c2c4 b7b6 g2g3 g1f3 g8f6 c2c4 c7c5 b1c3 b8c6 ... I have found this discussion but unfortunately all the links are dead. Would you have books like this to share? If it is in SAN it can also interest me. Than...

My bad. :oops: Fixed. My main preoccupation wasn't relative to the spelling of my name, but to the many packages including the same files. As I provide to you an updated ZIP archive with all the versions, it doesn't seem useful to keep the previous versions of the package. But, of course, it's up t...