Satana 2.4.19 released (Windows/Linux/OS X)

[stegemma]

Works good on linux in xboard. I even managed to win the game

Very good!

Now I plan to add multi threading in the search, so that it could be get some good result at our IGT (International GSEI Tournament), this year.

Can you post or send me one of your games?

[gerold]

Thanks for the nice chess engine. I use windows version in Arena. I can play and beat it so it is a nice engine to play against if you need practice.

Best,
Gerold.

[stegemma]

Thanks for the nice chess engine. I use windows version in Arena. I can play and beat it so it is a nice engine to play against if you need practice.

Best,
Gerold.

You can build your own books, if you use it for learning. You must run satana from the console (Windows "cmd" command or "DOS prompt") and then type:

\buildbooks path_of_pgn_files moves_count
\mergebooks books_path new_book.sbk

For sample:

\buildbooks c:\mypgn 40
\megebooks c:\mypgn c:\satana\satana.sbk

this will create a book up to 40 half-moves from all the pgns in c:\mypgn folder, then it merge all the books created into a single satana.sbk.

For sample, I've downloaded PGN from PGNmentor then merged all into a single satana.sbk. If you use your own games, you can see satana... play like you!

PS: after \buildbooks command you must wait until it finish

[styx]

Works good on linux in xboard. I even managed to win the game

Very good!

Now I plan to add multi threading in the search, so that it could be get some good result at our IGT (International GSEI Tournament), this year.

Can you post or send me one of your games?

[pgn][Event "Computer Chess Game"]
[Site "andreas-ugnome2"]
[Date "2016.08.07"]
[Round "-"]
[White "andreas"]
[Black "Satana 2.4.19"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "60"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qe5+ 4. Be2 Bg4 5. f3 Bd7 6. d4 Qd6 7. Be3 Qb6
8. Qc1 g6 9. d5 Qf6 10. Qd2 e5 11. f4 Bb4 12. fxe5 Qh4+ 13. g3 Qd8 14.
O-O-O Ba5 15. Bg5 Qc8 16. Qe3 h6 17. Bf6 Bb6 18. Qf4 g5 19. Qf1 Rh7 20. Bd3
Nxf6 21. exf6 Be3+ 22. Kb1 Bxg1 23. Qe2+ Kf8 24. Qe7+ Kg8 25. Bxh7+ Kh8 26.
Qxf7 Qf8 27. Qxf8+ Kxh7 28. Qg7#
{Xboard adjudication: Checkmate} 1-0
[/pgn]

Don't laugh! I'm not very good and it was late

[stegemma]

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Don't laugh! I'm not very good and it was late

You win, why should I laugh?

Satana doesn't play well when there a sequence of forced moves, because those moves put far its horizon and the engine doesn't have null moves or quiescence, for now.

Thanks for the game!