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ProChess 101 C "prime" released

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:51 pm
by Edoardo Manino
Hi,
I'm a programmer from Italy, I've just released a new version of my ProChess.
You'll find it on http://www.g-sei.org/pro-chess/
It isn't strong, basic search, only piece table evaluation, no tablebases,
but it's very stable so may be useful for testing.
Enjoy it!

Re: ProChess 101 C "prime" released

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:04 pm
by Graham Banks
Edoardo Manino wrote:Hi,
I'm a programmer from Italy, I've just released a new version of my ProChess.
You'll find it on http://www.g-sei.org/pro-chess/
It isn't strong, basic search, only piece table evaluation, no tablebases,
but it's very stable so may be useful for testing.
Enjoy it!
Thanks. I'm going to include it in my Amateur Series Division 7 at this stage. :)

Re: ProChess 101 C "prime" released

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 7:29 pm
by gerold
Edoardo Manino wrote:Hi,
I'm a programmer from Italy, I've just released a new version of my ProChess.
You'll find it on http://www.g-sei.org/pro-chess/
It isn't strong, basic search, only piece table evaluation, no tablebases,
but it's very stable so may be useful for testing.
Enjoy it!
Nice engine. Thanks.

Best,
Gerold.

Re: ProChess 101 C "prime" released

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:42 am
by tttony
wow you made that engine in Visual Basic 6?

Re: ProChess 101 C "prime" released

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 10:00 am
by Edoardo Manino
tttony wrote:wow you made that engine in Visual Basic 6?
Yes, I do! I started programming ProChess two years ago.
At this time Visual Basic 6 was the only programming language I knew.
I'll rewrite it in C sooner or later...

Re: ProChess 101 C "prime" released

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:47 pm
by Graham Banks
Edoardo Manino wrote:Hi,
I'm a programmer from Italy, I've just released a new version of my ProChess.
You'll find it on http://www.g-sei.org/pro-chess/
It isn't strong, basic search, only piece table evaluation, no tablebases,
but it's very stable so may be useful for testing.
Enjoy it!
When I doubleclick on the exe, a console window doesn't pop up, but a file called spy.txt is created in the engine folder. However, Task manager shows that the ProChess application is running.

Has anybody successfully run this engine?
Should I be worried about a file called spy.txt?

Re: ProChess 101 C "prime" released

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:07 pm
by ZirconiumX
Graham, that does not bode well.

Especially from someone who just pops out of nowhere.

Where did he get the 2168 Elo CCRL 40/4 from? CCRL have never tested an engine called ProChess in 40/4.

Delete the executable, and run a very good anti virus on your computer.

JM2C.

Matthew:out

Re: ProChess 101 C "prime" released

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:14 pm
by Edoardo Manino
Hi Graham!
don't worry about "spy.txt", it's the log file :D
Visual Basic 6 executables has some issues running in console mode, I give up trying to solve this problem. Fritz, Arena and Winboard interfaces has no problems running ProChess

Re: ProChess 101 C "prime" released

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:15 pm
by Graham Banks
Edoardo Manino wrote:Hi Graham!
don't worry about "spy.txt", it's the log file :D
Visual Basic 6 executables has some issues running in console mode, I give up trying to solve this problem. Fritz, Arena and Winboard interfaces has no problems running ProChess
Okay. Thanks for explaining. :)

Re: ProChess 101 C "prime" released

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:18 pm
by Edoardo Manino
Dear Matthew,
when someone join this forum he necessarily "pops out of nowhere", doesn't he? :D
The 2138 CCRL 40/4 is an old score. Now it's 1938, but I like more the old one ;-)