Nebula 1.0 released

[Dragan]

You can download my engine Nebula from this web site:
https://sites.google.com/site/nebulachess

Nebula has been written from scratch by myself. I started this spring with an empty editor page and didn't look at any open source programs during the development. This blackout will continue as long as I am developing the engine.
Of course before I decided to develop my own engine I did look at all available open source programs and learned from them.
The engine is currently not very strong, but considering how basic the current eval and search are, it plays pretty good.

Well known people who contribute to computer chess by running tournaments and rating lists can message me if they wish to get the source code.

I hope CCRL and CEGT will test my engine and hope to see it playing in some tournaments. It will give me motivation to continue improving it.


Cheers,
Dragan

[tjfroh]

Thank you,

TJF

You can download my engine Nebula from this web site:
https://sites.google.com/site/nebulachess

Nebula has been written from scratch by myself. I started this spring with an empty editor page and didn't look at any open source programs during the development. This blackout will continue as long as I am developing the engine.
Of course before I decided to develop my own engine I did look at all available open source programs and learned from them.
The engine is currently not very strong, but considering how basic the current eval and search are, it plays pretty good.

Well known people who contribute to computer chess by running tournaments and rating lists can message me if they wish to get the source code.

I hope CCRL and CEGT will test my engine and hope to see it playing in some tournaments. It will give me motivation to continue improving it.


Cheers,
Dragan

[SzG]

You can download my engine Nebula from this web site:
https://sites.google.com/site/nebulachess

Nebula has been written from scratch by myself. I started this spring with an empty editor page and didn't look at any open source programs during the development. This blackout will continue as long as I am developing the engine.
Of course before I decided to develop my own engine I did look at all available open source programs and learned from them.
The engine is currently not very strong, but considering how basic the current eval and search are, it plays pretty good.

Well known people who contribute to computer chess by running tournaments and rating lists can message me if they wish to get the source code.

I hope CCRL and CEGT will test my engine and hope to see it playing in some tournaments. It will give me motivation to continue improving it.


Cheers,
Dragan

Hello Dragan,

Thanks you for the new engine. I am certainly going to add it to my testing queue. Could you please give a rough assessment of its playing strength to make it easier for me to select appropriate opponents?

EDIT: Oops, I tried to run it on a 32-bit Win XP system (yes, the 32-bit version) but it refused to start. Does it require some additional files or a certain background?

[GenoM]

EDIT: Oops, I tried to run it on a 32-bit Win XP system (yes, the 32-bit version) but it refused to start. Does it require some additional files or a certain background?

Same with me.

Regards,
Geno

[gerold]

Thank you. Working good in Arena . I added a book for it to use.

Best,
Gerold.

[Dragan]

Nebula is compiled for the SSE CPU architecture.
Not sure it will work on the very old machines. I tested it on my ancient laptop (Core2Duo) and it works fine.
Do you have Intel or AMD?

[Graham Banks]

Nebula is compiled for the SSE CPU architecture.
Not sure it will work on the very old machines. I tested it on my ancient laptop (Core2Duo) and it works fine.
Do you have Intel or AMD?

A non-SSE version for both 64-bit and 32-bit would probably be good if you can compile them.

[SzG]

Nebula is compiled for the SSE CPU architecture.
Not sure it will work on the very old machines. I tested it on my ancient laptop (Core2Duo) and it works fine.
Do you have Intel or AMD?

That was an Intel E6550 CPU. Here at home I have an Intel Q6600 and both 32 and 64 bit versions run all right. This is 64-bit Vista, however.
Are you sure you have not left something 64-bit specific thing in the 32-bit compile?

[Graham Banks]

Could you please give a rough assessment of its playing strength to make it easier for me to select appropriate opponents?

Dragan - some idea as to Nebula's strength would be useful as Gabor suggests.

[Dragan]

Intel E6550 supports SSE2, so it should be working fine on it.
I added nosse 32-bit version, so could you please try using that one.

There is no nosse option for 64-bit compiles, so the 64-bit version should be working on all 64-bit processors.