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Alice: A reintroduction
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:13 am
by SvenR
Hey guys,
it's been a while. I used to be quite active on CCC a long time ago. Back then I was developing a simple engine called Alice. It's amusing that early versions of that program still appear in some engine competitions, mostly losing on time and behaving badly in general
Anyway, I've embarked on a rewrite, hoping I've learned a few things in my previous attempt. In particular I'll be focusing on search efficiency, something I have neglected so far. I'll be using g++ and 64-bit Linux. If there's interest I'll post updates and results.
Cheers,
Sven.
Re: Alice: A reintroduction
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:08 pm
by JuLieN
Welcome back, Svein!
I remember my engine Prédateur found its first deep mate against Alice, in this position that I now use to check that nothing is broken (it now needs less than 4k nodes to solve it) :
[d]rnbqkbnr/pppp1Np1/4ppB1/4P2p/1P6/2N2Q2/PBPP1PPP/R4RK1 w - - 4 14
Re: Alice: A reintroduction
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:20 pm
by pocopito
Hi Sven
As a linux user I'm interested in (almost) any engine that can run in this platform.
Can you provide a link to your project? (I've made a search on the web but I haven't been able to find anything useful).
Anyway, I'd be interested in the develop of this project
Best
E Diaz
Re: Alice: A reintroduction
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:17 pm
by Olivier Deville
SvenR wrote:Hey guys,
it's been a while. I used to be quite active on CCC a long time ago. Back then I was developing a simple engine called Alice. It's amusing that early versions of that program still appear in some engine competitions, mostly losing on time and behaving badly in general
Anyway, I've embarked on a rewrite, hoping I've learned a few things in my previous attempt. In particular I'll be focusing on search efficiency, something I have neglected so far. I'll be using g++ and 64-bit Linux. If there's interest I'll post updates and results.
Cheers,
Sven.
Hi Sven, and welcome back
The old Alice is still playing here (see my H group that will start in September). If you have something ready by then, be sure to send it to me
Olivier
Re: Alice: A reintroduction
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:15 pm
by tmokonen
It's always cool to see a new version of a golden oldie like Alice. Really neat to see the new UCI version of Ziggurat too, played a lot of games with that program back in the Windows 3.1 days.
Re: Alice: A reintroduction
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:18 pm
by hgm
pocopito wrote:As a linux user I'm interested in (almost) any engine that can run in this platform.
Especially for you, then:
A Linux version of
Joker 1.1.14j
Re: Alice: A reintroduction
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:37 pm
by jshriver
hgm wrote:pocopito wrote:As a linux user I'm interested in (almost) any engine that can run in this platform.
Especially for you, then:
A Linux version of
Joker 1.1.14j
Sweet! I collect any and all engines as well. Especially linux ones.