Garbochess v2 released

[gladius]

You can grab it here http://forwardcoding.com/projects/garbo ... chess2.zip.

Comes in 32 bit and 64 bit flavors (I highly recommend using 64 bit if possible, the 32 bit version is quite unoptimized), and is way stronger than v1. Still not competing with Fruit/Toga et. al, but perhaps one day .

Version 2 is a complete rewrite from C# to C++, and 0x88 to bitboards. The search has been massively improved along the way. Evaluation is still pretty basic, but it has most major features in there now.

[Graham Banks]

Thanks Gary.

[Graham Banks]

You can grab it here http://forwardcoding.com/projects/garbo ... chess2.zip.

Comes in 32 bit and 64 bit flavors (I highly recommend using 64 bit if possible, the 32 bit version is quite unoptimized), and is way stronger than v1. Still not competing with Fruit/Toga et. al, but perhaps one day .

Version 2 is a complete rewrite from C# to C++, and 0x88 to bitboards. The search has been massively improved along the way. Evaluation is still pretty basic, but it has most major features in there now.

You will need the latest CRT to run it:
(x86) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
(x64) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

Hi Gary,

I downloaded the necessary file and installed it.
Now when I doubleclick on the GarboChess exe, I get an error message and have to close out.
Any suggestions?

Regards, Graham.

[Tony Thomas]

Same problem here. It says that the application configuration is incorrect and that reinstalling the program may help. Also, is the hashtable size configurable? Last version used more than 100MB so I wasnt able to play with it.

I should have read the readme

No options as of yet, hash is set to 128mb currently (hopefully not too much).

[Tony Thomas]

Graham, after downloading the files from microsoft, you have to click on Install. That solves the problem.

[gladius]

Hm... Are you running the 32 bit or 64 bit version?

Tony: Sorry, I should have made the hash size configurable, I'll do that for the next release.

[Graham Banks]

Graham, after downloading the files from microsoft, you have to click on Install. That solves the problem.

I did install the file. GarboChess doesn't work here. I'm using the 32-bit exe.

[Tony Thomas]

Graham, after downloading the files from microsoft, you have to click on Install. That solves the problem.

I did install the file. GarboChess doesn't work here. I'm using the 32-bit exe.

Try copying all the files to the directory of Garbochess. Garbochess does work for me, its just that it is not useable with only 256Mb of total Ram.

[Graham Banks]

Graham, after downloading the files from microsoft, you have to click on Install. That solves the problem.

I did install the file. GarboChess doesn't work here. I'm using the 32-bit exe.

Try copying all the files to the directory of Garbochess. Garbochess does work for me, its just that it is not useable with only 256Mb of total Ram.

From where?

[gladius]

Graham, have you perhaps installed a beta version of the CRT libraries? If you have, you'll need to uninstall that first before installing the RTM version.

You can copy the files from vc_red.cab (which should be extracted to your temp directory) as a last resort, but it should work just fine without the dll's in the same directory.