Mediocre v0.4 released

[Zlaire]

I've released a new version of Mediocre, first one in two years.

Mediocre is now UCI only (I removed the semi-working xboard support).

Main changes include finally having ponder implemented and I looked over the search, finding quite a few bugs and weird behaviour.

This version should be significantly stronger than the previous version.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/medioc ... t/download

[skalde]

very good news, thanks!

[Graham Banks]

I've released a new version of Mediocre, first one in two years.......

Thanks.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Thanks

Mediocre 0.34 is 2295 Elo chess engine in my private rating list....

Here is one of my games against Mediocre 0.34 which I played in one of my tournaments....


[Event "Zzzz_0_2"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2011.05.15"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Mediocre 0.34"]
[Black "Dr.Deeb"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B49"]
[Annotator "Deep Rybka 4.1 w32 (20m)"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[Source "Chess Informant"]

{B49: Sicilian: Taimanov: 5 Nc3 Qc7 6 Be3 a6 7 Be2} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4
cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be2 a6 7. O-O Nf6 8. Be3 Bb4 9. Nxc6 bxc6 10.
Na4 Be7 11. Nb6 Rb8 12. Nxc8 Qxc8 13. Bd4 O-O 14. e5 Nd5 15. c4 Nf4 16. g3
Nxe2+ 17. Qxe2 Qc7 {last book move} 18. Rfd1 f5 19. c5 Qa7 20. Qe3 Rb5 {
The pressure on c5 grows} 21. f4 Rd8 22. Rac1 Rf8 23. Kh1 Kh8 24. b3 Kg8 25.
Qd3 Rfb8 26. Be3 Rd8 27. Rc3 Kh8 28. Kg2 Kg8 29. Qc4 g6 30. a4 {
White threatens to win material: a4xb5} Rbb8 31. Rcd3 Rb7 32. b4 Kg7 33. Kh1
Kh8 {Black king safety improved} 34. Bd4 Kg7 {Black king safety dropped} 35.
R3d2 Kh8 {Black king safety improved} 36. Ra1 Kg7 {Black king safety dropped}
37. Rb1 Rdb8 38. h3 h6 {Black has a cramped position} 39. Kh2 Kh7 1/2-1/2

Dr.D

[Zlaire]

I managed to forget to update the internal version number. So it'll still say 0.34 instead of 0.4.

Switched the download file, so if you're annoyed with that just download again.

[Zlaire]

I managed to forget to update the internal version number. So it'll still say 0.34 instead of 0.4.

Switched the download file, so if you're annoyed with that just download again.

Mine now says it is v1.0...

EDIT: OK now, but you must have changed other things too as the file size increased considerably.

Ah yes, the old file would say v1.0, was my development version, but decided to go to 0.4 instead.

Did the size increase? Strange. Well I'm doing some manual cleaning when creating the file, might've missed something, won't make make a difference though.

[Mincho Georgiev]

Thanks! You once had one of the most attractive chess programming blogs.
Are you still maintain it?

[Zlaire]

Thanks! You once had one of the most attractive chess programming blogs.
Are you still maintain it?

Yes, my blog has been up and running again for the passed two months.

http://mediocrechess.blogspot.com

[Amstaff]

Hello, which file to I run as the .exe file when using Arena?
Many thanks,
Gerald

[Zlaire]

Hello, which file to I run as the .exe file when using Arena?
Many thanks,
Gerald

Use Mediocre.bat. When adding an engine in Arena it defaults to looking for .exe files, but you can change that to .bat instead.