Yea Chess....is....Fantastic!!

[supersharp77]

Internet sensation Yea Chess Continues to amaze the public.......small strong and free.....if only it was winboard compatible....otherwise this program is a revelation!

[http://free-zd.t-com.hr/drazen/Games/YeaChess.zip

[MMoisan]

Great program to play against, though I wonder why it would amaze the public.

I manage to beat it with the default setting:

[pgn][Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2014.07.27"]
[Round "?"]
[White "MM"]
[Black "Yea Chess"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C47"]
[PlyCount "131"]

1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 e5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nd5 Nxe4 6. Bc4 Bc5 (6... Be7 7.
O-O O-O 8. Re1 Nf6 9. Nxe7+ Nxe7 10. Qxd4 d6 11. Bg5 Nc6) 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 Nf6
9. Bg5 d6 (9... Be7 10. Rxe7 Nxe7 11. Nxf6+ gxf6 12. Bxf6) (9... Nb4) 10. Qd2
Be6 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. Qh6 Ne5 13. Nxe5 ({Houdini 3 w32:} 13. Nxf6+ Qxf6 14.
Qxf6 Nxc4 15. Rxe6 fxe6 16. Qxe6+ Kg7 17. Qxc4 Rae8 18. Qb5 Re7 19. b4 c6 20.
Qd3 Bb6 21. Nxd4 Re5 22. Nf3 Re6 23. Qc3+ Rff6 24. Re1 Rxe1+ 25. Qxe1 Rf7 26.
Qe6 d5 27. Qe5+ Kg8 28. a4 Bc7 29. Qe6 Bb6 30. a5 Bd8 31. Ne5 {[%eval 830,18]})
13... fxe5 14. Nf6+ Qxf6 15. Qxf6 Bxc4 16. Re4 Rfd8 17. Rg4+ Kf8 18. Rg7 Ke8
19. Re1 h5 20. f4 Kd7 21. fxe5 Kc6 22. Kh1 Bd5 23. Rxf7 Rg8 24. Rg7 Rxg7 25.
Qxg7 Rg8 26. Qxg8 Bxg8 27. e6 d5 28. e7 Bxe7 29. Rxe7 Kd6 30. Rg7 Be6 31. h3
Bf5 32. Kg1 Bxc2 33. Kf2 Bb1 34. a3 Be4 35. g4 ({Stockfish 240714:} 35. g4 hxg4
36. Rxg4 Bf5 37. Rg3 a5 38. h4 c5 39. h5 c4 40. Rf3 Be4 41. h6 b5 42. Ke2 b4
43. axb4 axb4 44. Rf7 c3 45. h7 d3+ 46. Ke3 Bxh7 47. Rxh7 d2 48. Rh1 d4+ 49.
Kd3 Ke5 50. Kc2 Kf4 51. bxc3 bxc3 {[%eval 113,35]}) 35... hxg4 36. h4 d3 37.
Ke3 c5 38. h5 Ke6 39. h6 d4+ 40. Kd2 g3 41. Rxg3 a5 42. Rg4 Bf5 43. Rg5 Bh7 44.
Rg7 Be4 45. h7 Bxh7 46. Rxh7 b5 47. Kxd3 Kd5 48. Rh5+ Kc6 49. Ke4 d3 50. Rh6+
Kd7 51. Kxd3 Ke7 52. Ke4 b4 53. a4 c4 54. Kd4 c3 55. bxc3 bxc3 56. Kxc3 Kd7 57.
Kc4 Ke8 58. Rh7 Kf8 59. Kb5 Kg8 60. Rb7 Kf8 61. Kxa5 Ke8 62. Kb6 Kd8 63. a5 Kc8
64. a6 Kd8 65. a7 Ke8 66. a8=Q# 1-0 [/pgn]

and draw against the strongest settings (level 15 - 5 seconds):

[pgn][Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2014.07.28"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Yea Chess"]
[Black "MM"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B08"]
[PlyCount "121"]

1. Nc3 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Be2 a6 6. O-O O-O 7. e5 dxe5 8. Nxe5
Nbd7 9. Bg5 c5 10. Nc4 b5 11. Bf3 Ra7 12. Ne3 cxd4 13. Qxd4 Qb6 14. Qf4 Bb7 15.
Bxb7 Qxb7 16. Rfd1 Qb8 17. Qh4 Nb6 18. Rd3 Rd8 19. Rxd8+ Qxd8 20. a4 bxa4 21.
Nxa4 Nxa4 22. Qxa4 h6 23. Bxf6 Bxf6 24. Rd1 Qb8 25. b3 Qb5 26. Qa3 e6 27. c4
Qb8 28. b4 Rb7 29. Nc2 Qa7 30. Qa4 Kg7 31. g3 h5 32. Rd6 Rb6 33. Rd7 Rb7 34.
Rd3 h4 35. Ra3 h3 36. Qxa6 Rd7 37. Ne3 Qd4 38. Qa4 Bg5 39. Qc2 Bxe3 40. fxe3
Qd1+ 41. Qxd1 Rxd1+ 42. Kf2 Rd2+ 43. Kg1 Rg2+ 44. Kh1 Rb2 45. Kg1 Rxb4 46. Rc3
Kf6 47. c5 Ke7 48. c6 Kd8 49. Rd3+ Kc7 50. Rd7+ Kxc6 51. Rxf7 Kd5 52. Rh7 Rb1+
53. Kf2 Rb2+ 54. Kg1 Ke4 55. Rxh3 Kxe3 56. Rh7 e5 57. Rf7 Rb1+ 58. Kg2 Rb2+ 59.
Kg1 Rb1+ 60. Kg2 Rb2+ 61. Kg1 1/2-1/2[/pgn]

Thank you for mentionning it. I had never heard of Yea Chess.

[supersharp77]

Well what is your rating? AAR

[Sylwy]

Well what is your rating? AAR

Hello man !

Yea Chess is a well-known chess app. coming from years. Its origins were disscussed in a well-known chess forum years ago. The conclusion : a native transcription (with GUI) of a well- known chess engine ! Plays very strong, of course. Any wonder to post here Yea vs.various utra-strong chess engines games and to edit the .pgn files !

Regards,
Blue-rose-bombon IGM SilvianR

[Ajedrecista]

Hello Silvian:

Hello man !

Yea Chess is a well-known chess app. coming from years. Its origins were disscussed in a well-known chess forum years ago. The conclusion : a native transcription (with GUI) of a well- known chess engine ! Plays very strong, of course. Any wonder to post here Yea vs.various utra-strong chess engines games and to edit the .pgn files !

Regards,
Blue-rose-bombon IGM SilvianR

Are you referring to this post by yourself?

Does anybody know the rating of this little engine?

Seems a Croatian replica to Serbian Naum !

Or do you refer to other discussion? Links, please. Thanks in advance.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

[Sylwy]

Hello Silvian:

Hello man !

Yea Chess is a well-known chess app. coming from years. Its origins were disscussed in a well-known chess forum years ago. The conclusion : a native transcription (with GUI) of a well- known chess engine ! Plays very strong, of course. Any wonder to post here Yea vs.various utra-strong chess engines games and to edit the .pgn files !

Regards,
Blue-rose-bombon IGM SilvianR

Are you referring to this post by yourself?

Does anybody know the rating of this little engine?

Seems a Croatian replica to Serbian Naum !

Or do you refer to other discussion? Links, please. Thanks in advance.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

Hi Ajedrecista !

Was a disscussion in mylivepages.com epoch chess forums. I remember also a disscussion in immortal forum (the old one , not the actual blue forum). The old members (in both ) know very well !
And Mr.Alex Naumov still works in Canada (Toronto). Sounds familiar ?

Cheers,
SilvianR

[Ajedrecista]

Hi Ajedrecista !

Was a disscussion in mylivepages.com epoch chess forums. I remember also a disscussion in immortal forum (the old one , not the actual blue forum).

I have not found anything of mylivepages.com; OTOH I only found the following info of 28th June, 2009 (no discussion) at immortal223 (the old ImmortalChess):

Ваши ссылки / Chess stuff (продолжение) (Raw view).

Ваши ссылки / Chess stuff (продолжение) (Normal view).

Программка Yea Chess 1.0 Yea Chess is a chess versus computer. It has a simple interface and powerful and quick artificial intelligence. You can adjust the skill of the computer and save games. Size : 1.7 MB Ссылки: http://www.uploading.com/files/PS5101IG ... 2.rar.html http://www.easy-share.com/1905274356/Yea.Chess1.02.rar

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The old members (in both ) know very well !
And Mr.Alex Naumov still works in Canada (Toronto). Sounds familiar ?

Cheers,
SilvianR

AFAIK Naumov is Serbian but Naum played/plays under Canadian flag. Sorry but I fear I do not fully understand you.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

[mar]

Very nice indeed, just played three games against my engine and the result was 1.5-1.5
Since the second game I compensated for the fact that Yea (4.84 is the version I tried) automatically uses all available cores, both games were 5 sec/move,
ponder off, 64MB hash (guessed from YeaChess' memory usage), Yea played two games with black, one with white.
Unfortunetely it was difficult to play with black due to wrong board mirroring.
Can't tell much from just three games of course (a pity it's not available as standalone uci/xboard engine),
but my guess is if you have 4 cores you are facing an opponent of around 2900 CCRL (+- a lot

[Sylwy]

AFAIK Naumov is Serbian but Naum played/plays under Canadian flag. Sorry but I fear I do not fully understand you.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

Ajedrecista,
I have some very good friends (not much ) here ! They know well what' s about !

SilvianR

[styx]

Internet sensation Yea Chess Continues to amaze the public.......small strong and free.....if only it was winboard compatible....otherwise this program is a revelation!

[http://free-zd.t-com.hr/drazen/Games/YeaChess.zip

of course it is fun. it plays chess at different difficult levels (which is fun). but what makes it a sensation or even a revelation? I like that the program is very small but that's it. maybe it is the mystery of its sudden appearance some years ago?

there are some things I dislike about this program: the GUI is very (very, very) simple and it does not recognize 50 move- oder threefold repetition draws. furthermore it is not winboard or UCI compatible.

but maybe i'm just a little spoiled by all these high class engines an GUIs some awesome people offer us for free today