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If there were one engine I could bring back and covert
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Re: If there were one engine I could bring back and covert
"Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions."
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Mac Hack VI or Chess 4.5
But with Lazy SMP and Syzygy support.
Just to see how well those ancient engines would do on modern hardware + opening book + tablebase.
But with Lazy SMP and Syzygy support.
Just to see how well those ancient engines would do on modern hardware + opening book + tablebase.
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I concur. I actually once hacked dropbox to screen scrape the Psion Chess screen (a bitmap!) to read its moves so that it could be used as a UCI engine but I became appalled by the ugliness of this approach, and I did not complete the protocol part. It would be much nicer to read Psion Chess' memory directly but unfortunately I am bad at reverse engineering.PK wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:48 am Psion Chess by Richard Lang (https://www.retrogames.cz/play_430-DOS.php) I played a lot of games against it as a boy, and over the course of one summer holiday proceeded from losing at level one to winning at next-to-last level. I remember the engine as very stable, level-headed opponent. Also, it did have some form of (limited) learning.
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Without ideas there is nothing to simplify.
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Ask Marty for the source code?Steve Maughan wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 1:16 pm +1 for MChess.
A couple of years ago I briefly corresponded with Marty. At that time he didn't rule out a new version of MChess. It had "maybe-one-day" status.
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Hi Ed - I've sent an email. Let's see what happens!
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As someone who has the source code of chess system tal, I would honestly like to bring Cstal into uci.BrendanJNorman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:50 amMChess is great. But I think I'd like to try Socrates or maybe even better, Chess System Tal as a UCI/WB engine.
Either of those would be fantastic...but so would MChess of course.
(Did my posts of today get you thinking about Golden Oldies? )
Also Mchess and chess tiger are good candidates.
They all have something no other engine has.
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I am in contact with marty on a manly basis.Steve Maughan wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 8:49 pm Hi Ed - I've sent an email. Let's see what happens!
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I tried to convince him to port it to uci.
But so far unsuccessful.
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If ancient I would prefer the selective engines, not the a strategy engines,
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I run mchess on my mobile android phone, works very well,
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