Which are the chess engines written from scratch ?

[Sedat Canbaz]

I think to include Cray Blitz 4.9 JA too

Any opinions about it is a scratch engine or not ?

[Sedat Canbaz]

Btw, here are the current scratch engines which I plan to include:

[Sedat Canbaz]

Joker 1.1.14w is planing to be added too

[Sedat Canbaz]

Friend Sedat,
Make your tournament without being supreme judge.
I mean, the authors will tell you the status of your engine,
where the authors do not appear, you decide.

And when you make the tournament, leave room for doubt, somehow.

Try a less drastic title.
Or open the hand, and are not, scratch, scratch.
Pandora's box will open.

Of course Jose, I give you right...

As a single tester, I can't test all engines over the world

But I hope (at least) with current test to see more own playing styles

[Sedat Canbaz]

SMIRF has been written genuinely. It is not Open Source. There is no more need to put it into any 8x8 competition.

Thanks !

I will include Smirf too

[Charles Browne]

How about Patzer & AnMon?

SMIRF has been written genuinely. It is not Open Source. There is no more need to put it into any 8x8 competition.

Thanks !

I will include Smirf too

Please reread Reinhard Scharnagl's post.

[Sedat Canbaz]

How about Patzer & AnMon?

SMIRF has been written genuinely. It is not Open Source. There is no more need to put it into any 8x8 competition.

Thanks !

I will include Smirf too

Please reread Reinhard Scharnagl's post.

Oh, now i see...thanks !

I have no idea about Patzer and AnMon, if they are written from scratch... sure i will include them too

[phenri]

I suggest these 3 below.

TSCP by Tom Kerrigan http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/TSCP
(maybe latest compile here) http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... lett/TSCP/

MSCP Marcel Simple Chess Program by Marcel van Kervinck (MarcelK)
http://marcelk.net/mscp/
(JA Binary) http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... lett/MSCP/

Feuerstein by Fritz Grau http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... 200.4.6.1/

[Sedat Canbaz]

I suggest these 3 below.

TSCP by Tom Kerrigan http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/TSCP
(maybe latest compile here) http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... lett/TSCP/

MSCP Marcel Simple Chess Program by Marcel van Kervinck (MarcelK)
http://marcelk.net/mscp/
(JA Binary) http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... lett/MSCP/

Feuerstein by Fritz Grau http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... 200.4.6.1/

Thanks for the links...

I will include them too

[Evert]

I think "written from scratch" is ill-defined.

It's certainly a term that needs to be defined, because people have different interpretations of the term. To me, it means "I wrote all the code", but it seems that the definition here is more restricted.

Crafty was based on Cray Blitz. It was not written "from scratch".

By the same author though, and the code had to be written from scratch in the sense that it had to be typed in an editor by the programmer, since Cray Blitz is written in FORTRAN and Crafty is C.

Pro Deo might be based in part on Rebel (I don't know).

I thought it was basically the current version of Rebel and the name-change is because of Ed's formal retirement (personally I prefer the name Rebel).

My private engine is a rewrite of an earlier engine, so it was not written "from scratch".

Evidently, the current version of Jazz is based on an earlier version of Jazz Where do you draw the line? When all earlier versions of the program had the same name?