Falcon by Omid David Tabibi

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Hello,

I saw a contribution of this engine , but found no informations what kind
of protocol (WinBoard or UCI) Falcon supports.

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/p ... php?id=108

Unfortunately the link to its author - Omid David Tabibi (~Genesis) is broken.

Any help or suggestion is appreciated!

Norbert

[Sylwy]

Hello,

I saw a contribution of this engine , but found no informations what kind
of protocol (WinBoard or UCI) Falcon supports.

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/p ... php?id=108

Unfortunately the link to its author - Omid David Tabibi (~Genesis) is broken.

Any help or suggestion is appreciated!

Norbert

Hi Norbert !

All chess engines of Maestro Omid David Tabibi are under Winboard protocol.
And.....they are three chess engines:


1.Genesis-free- (a problem here - displays always the mate score for white);
2.Maestro-private;
3.Falcon-private-a very strong and didactical one !


Regards,
SilvianR

[mar]

Hello,

I saw a contribution of this engine , but found no informations what kind
of protocol (WinBoard or UCI) Falcon supports.

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/p ... php?id=108

Unfortunately the link to its author - Omid David Tabibi (~Genesis) is broken.

Any help or suggestion is appreciated!

Norbert

Omid David Tabibi is well known. He wrote a few papers about chess programming, namely null move reductions, mentor assisted evaluation tuning and something about pawn fortresses if I remember. I even remember mentioning Falcon in some of the papers. However I think it's probably a private engine. The same author wrote Genesis which should be available (around 2300 elo), so I expect Falcon to be much stronger. Perhaps you could try to contact him via e-mail if you can find it somewhere.

Martin

[mar]

Hi Norbert !

All chess engines of Maestro Omid David Tabibi are under Winboard protocol.
And.....they are three chess engines:


1.Genesis-free- (a problem here - displays always the mate score for white);
2.Maestro-private;
3.Falcon-private-a very strong and didactical one !


Regards,
SilvianR

Hi Sylwy,

Faster as usual... I bow before your vast knowledge
And I forgot Maestro, I thought it was experimental.

Martin

[Sylwy]

Hi Martin !

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 TO YOU AND TO CHENG !

Over 3000 ELO in 2012 !


Regards,
SilvianR

[mar]

Hi Martin !

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 TO YOU AND TO CHENG !

Over 3000 ELO in 2012 !


Regards,
SilvianR

Thanks, happy new year to you too!

But honestly I doubt that it EVER reaches a rating like that I would be very happy with 2700 which I'd love to break (sometime).

Martin

[Master Om]

Hi Martin !

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 TO YOU AND TO CHENG !

Over 3000 ELO in 2012 !


Regards,
SilvianR

Thanks, happy new year to you too!

But honestly I doubt that it EVER reaches a rating like that I would be very happy with 2700 which I'd love to break (sometime).

Martin

Just have a slice of Fruit and see what happens!!

[diep]

Hello,

I saw a contribution of this engine , but found no informations what kind
of protocol (WinBoard or UCI) Falcon supports.

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/p ... php?id=108

Unfortunately the link to its author - Omid David Tabibi (~Genesis) is broken.

Any help or suggestion is appreciated!

Norbert

Omid David Tabibi is well known. He wrote a few papers about chess programming, namely null move reductions, mentor assisted evaluation tuning and something about pawn fortresses if I remember. I even remember mentioning Falcon in some of the papers. However I think it's probably a private engine. The same author wrote Genesis which should be available (around 2300 elo), so I expect Falcon to be much stronger. Perhaps you could try to contact him via e-mail if you can find it somewhere.

Martin

Omid already for years no longer responds to his email adresses and i thought i had 'em all.

I had been promised a few versions of Falcon by Omid, but never received any.

Most important contribution of Omid was in forward pruning, where he never published about. Falcon used razoring long before and in the 100% exact same manner how Rybka later on has been using it, which many deep searching engines use now.

Note it never worked for Diep like that - but that's irrelevant here - as it worked for Falcon, if i recall well already start 2001.

Though a technique that has its roots in the 70s, first modern usage where it also worked for, that was by Falcon.

Vincent

[mar]

Just have a slice of Fruit and see what happens!!

Fortunately I don't eat fruit

[mar]

Omid already for years no longer responds to his email adresses and i thought i had 'em all.

I had been promised a few versions of Falcon by Omid, but never received any.

Most important contribution of Omid was in forward pruning, where he never published about. Falcon used razoring long before and in the 100% exact same manner how Rybka later on has been using it, which many deep searching engines use now.

Note it never worked for Diep like that - but that's irrelevant here - as it worked for Falcon, if i recall well already start 2001.

Though a technique that has its roots in the 70s, first modern usage where it also worked for, that was by Falcon.

Vincent

I didn't know about that, that's quite interesting (well at least to me). Too bad he didn't write about that. I forgot to mention his version of verified null move pruning which was discussed here sometime ago if I recall.
The fact that Omid David doesn't respond to e-mails is bad news for Norbert as it answers his original question.

Martin