17th WCCC and the 14th Computer Olympiad

[MattieShoes]

Haha, it shows "Deep Sjreng" on the front page.

I wonder if Gnejs would be upset

[AdminX]

its not an UNKNOWN program. it also made a title (maybe amateur-title or stuff like this) but that was long time ago. long before the idea of UCI was born. therefore it is maybe not remembered in OUR days.
as far as i remember it was quite good in positional play, played often closed and passive variations. and was not so good in tactical play.

but ... that was long time ago. maybe today it has all been changed.
i remember a year ago or so it also played good in the hungarian championships.

the pandix family was also at the AEGON tournament in the hague.

Its IMO an interesting program and i would like to buy/test it.

therefore i am looking forward for the games.

I guess trapped pieces code is the next thing the programmer will implement

Description given in 1995:
Gyula Horvath started writing chess programs in 1985. His program won the Amateur World Chess Championship in 1987 and the Personal Computer Chess Champion title in 1988 and 1989. His wife, Szuzsa, joined the development in 1986. She is mainly active in testing the program and in designing and programming the graphics of the commercial versions of the program. Both of them pursue chess programming as a hobby - Gyula works as a marketing researcher and Zsuzsa works as a telemarketing assistant. They have participated in various computer chess events since 1986. In 1993 their team increased to three members when Csaba Szues began to implement a new 100,000 moves opening book. The program is written in C and uses a 400KB hash table. It measures the move interestingness and incrementally updates the attack map. The program uses principal variation search, advanced time control and special limited quiescence search.
Description given in 1988:
Besides the WORLD PC Champion title, Pandix won the Amateur Micro World Championtitle as well.

source:
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/p ... php?id=190

the program is as far as i remember in the CXG Legend dedicated chess computer and maybe in few others too.

Here is a old Pandix game from 1993

[Event "12th World Microcomputer World"]
[Site "12th World Microcomputer Worl"]
[Date "1993.??.??"]
[EventDate "1993.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "The King (Computer)"]
[Black "Pandix (Computer)"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "73"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. d4 d6
7. Nd3 Nxe4 8. Bxf4 Bg7 9. c3 O-O 10. Nd2 Re8 11. Nxe4 Rxe4+
12. Kf2 Qf6 13. g3 Bh6 14. Qd2 Nc6 15. Kg1 Bf8 16. Bg5 Qg7
17. Bg2 Re8 18. Nf4 Be7 19. Re1 Bd7 20. Bxc6 Bxg5 21. Bxd7
Rxe1+ 22. Qxe1 Bxf4 23. gxf4 h5 24. Qe7 Qg6 25. Qg5 Kg7
26. Kf2 Qxg5 27. hxg5 Rh8 28. Kg3 c5 29. f5 Kf8 30. f6 Kg8
31. Re1 Rh6 32. Re8+ Kh7 33. Bf5+ Rg6 34. Kf4 a5 35. Bxg6+
fxg6 36. f7 b5 37. f8=Q 1-0