Giraffe dissertation, and now open source

[JoshPettus]

That does make a lot of sense. But perhaps as a future project

@mvk I see what you did there!

[mvk]

Starting to make waves: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/54 ... al-master/

[JoshPettus]

I just played giraffe against sjeng for jokes in a quick 5 min/40 move game. It trounced sjeng, but the way it trounced it was quite unique. This without any opening books or endgame tables.

[pgn][Event "Computer Chess Game"]
[Site "Joshuas-MacBook-Pro.local"]
[Date "2015.09.15"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Giraffe efceca80bf74"]
[Black "Sjeng 11.2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "40/300"]
[Annotator "1. +0.09"]

1. e4 {+0.09/16} e6 2. c4 {+0.22/16 11} Nc6 3. d4 {+0.78/16 13} Bb4+ 4. Nc3
{+0.71/16 7} Qh4 5. Qd3 {+0.69/16 13} Nf6 6. e5 {+0.93/17 9} Qe4+ 7. Kd2
{+0.98/17 6} Qxd3+ 8. Kxd3 {+0.70/18 7} Bxc3 9. bxc3 {+0.72/19 10} Ng4 10.
Nh3 {+0.75/18 11} O-O 11. Be2 {+1.54/15 5} Nh6 12. Bf4 {+1.78/15 6} Nf5 13.
g4 {+1.49/15 6} Nfe7 14. Bf3 {+1.45/15 7} f6 15. exf6 {+1.14/16 7} Rxf6 16.
Bg2 {+1.24/15 5} d6 17. Rab1 {+1.21/14 8} e5 18. Bg5 {+0.61/15 5} Rf7 19.
f3 {+0.51/14 8} exd4 20. cxd4 {+0.74/15 6} d5 21. Rhe1 {+1.77/15 6} dxc4+
22. Kxc4 {+1.99/14 4} Ng6 23. Re8+ {+2.24/15 5} Rf8 24. Rxf8+ {+2.16/15 6}
Nxf8 25. Re1 {+2.66/14 4} Be6+ 26. d5 {+2.21/15 5} Bf7 27. f4 {+2.26/15 4}
Nd7 28. Kc3 {+2.97/15 5} Na5 29. Kb4 {+3.12/14 5} b6 30. Re7 {+3.39/15 2.6}
Nc5 31. f5 {+3.32/15 2.9} c6 32. dxc6 {+4.36/14 4} Bxa2 33. Nf4
{+4.10/14 3} Bb3 34. c7 {+4.90/14 2.7} Rc8 35. Bd5+ {+5.48/15 2.2} Bxd5 36.
Nxd5 {+5.86/15 2.1} Nc6+ 37. Kb5 {+6.18/15 2.0} Nd4+ 38. Kc4 {+6.62/15 3}
Nf3 39. Be3 {+7.01/15 2.1} Nb7 40. Kb5 {+6.97/14 3} Nd6+ 41. Kc6
{+8.00/18 17} Nf7 42. Kd7 {+8.75/17 9} Rf8 43. Bf4 {+9.37/19 11} Nd4 44.
Re8 {+9.62/20 11} Rxe8 45. Kxe8 {+9.82/18 9} Nb5 46. Ne7+ {+29.98/17 11}
Kh8 47. Kxf7 {+29.98/16 15} Nxc7 48. Bxc7 {+29.98/15 14} h6 49. Kg6
{+29.99/14 9} a5 50. Be5 {+29.99/13 13} b5 51. Bxg7# {+29.99/14 8}
{Xboard adjudication: Checkmate} 1-0
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