New chess engine

[Pallav Nawani]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Pallav Nawani at 16 March 2004 19:22:19:

Hi all,
This is my first post to this forum. I have written a very simple winboard chess engine called Natwarlal. It is partially derived from Mscp, and is a weak engine.
It comes with source code and prebuilt Linux (Redhat8) and Windows executables. It can be downloaded here:
http://www.ironcode.com/data/natwarlal.zip
Pallav

[Olivier Deville]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Olivier Deville at 16 March 2004 19:57:33:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: New chess engine geschrieben von: / posted by: Pallav Nawani at 16 March 2004 19:22:19:

Hi all,
This is my first post to this forum. I have written a very simple winboard chess engine called Natwarlal. It is partially derived from Mscp, and is a weak engine.
It comes with source code and prebuilt Linux (Redhat8) and Windows executables. It can be downloaded here:
http://www.ironcode.com/data/natwarlal.zip
Pallav

Hi Pallav ! I love the subject of this post .
It seems that information about the author is missing in the readme file, though. We want to know more about you !
Olivier


ChessWar

[Leo Dijksman]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Leo Dijksman at 16 March 2004 20:14:14:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: New chess engine geschrieben von: / posted by: Olivier Deville at 16 March 2004 19:57:33:

Hi all,
This is my first post to this forum. I have written a very simple winboard chess engine called Natwarlal. It is partially derived from Mscp, and is a weak engine.
It comes with source code and prebuilt Linux (Redhat8) and Windows executables. It can be downloaded here:
http://www.ironcode.com/data/natwarlal.zip
Pallav

Hi Pallav ! I love the subject of this post .
It seems that information about the author is missing in the readme file, though. We want to know more about you !
Olivier

Console says:
-------------------------
Natwarlal v0.01
Copyright (C)2004-2005 Pallav Nawani
This program is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
(See file COPYING for details.)
Type 'help' for a list of commands
Natwarlal>
------------------------
And he is from India
Best wishes,
Leo.


Natwarlal

[Olivier Deville]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Olivier Deville at 16 March 2004 20:35:01:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: New chess engine geschrieben von: / posted by: Leo Dijksman at 16 March 2004 20:14:14:




ChessWar

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Dann Corbit at 17 March 2004 04:20:36:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: New chess engine geschrieben von: / posted by: Pallav Nawani at 16 March 2004 19:22:19:

Hi all,
This is my first post to this forum. I have written a very simple winboard chess engine called Natwarlal. It is partially derived from Mscp, and is a weak engine.
It comes with source code and prebuilt Linux (Redhat8) and Windows executables. It can be downloaded here:
http://www.ironcode.com/data/natwarlal.zip
Pallav

Suggestions:
1. Add time control to it.
2. Recognize 50 non-reversible move draws.
3. Recognize 3-time repeat draws.
4. Report a result when the game ends.



my ftp site {remove http:// unless you like error messages}

[Pallav Nawani]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Pallav Nawani at 17 March 2004 19:47:21:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: New chess engine geschrieben von: / posted by: Olivier Deville at 16 March 2004 19:57:33:

Hi all,
This is my first post to this forum. I have written a very simple winboard chess engine called Natwarlal. It is partially derived from Mscp, and is a weak engine.
It comes with source code and prebuilt Linux (Redhat8) and Windows executables. It can be downloaded here:
http://www.ironcode.com/data/natwarlal.zip
Pallav

Hi Pallav ! I love the subject of this post .
It seems that information about the author is missing in the readme file, though. We want to know more about you !
Olivier

Hi,
As already noted, I am from Bangalore, India. I love playing pc games, and Now I am trying to make a living by making & selling them. I used to work as a video codecs programmer before this.
I've always been interested in chess, although I am a bad chess player! Back in 1999, When I was a student, I came across programs like Phalanx & Skaki. That kindled an interest in chess programming, and I started writing a bitboard based program. All I managed to do was design the data structures, and I did not get the time to finish it.
This time however, I decided to keep it simple, and actually finish it!
Dan:
Thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely get around to adding those features.
Pallav

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Dann Corbit at 17 March 2004 20:51:24:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: New chess engine geschrieben von: / posted by: Pallav Nawani at 17 March 2004 19:47:21:

Hi all,
This is my first post to this forum. I have written a very simple winboard chess engine called Natwarlal. It is partially derived from Mscp, and is a weak engine.
It comes with source code and prebuilt Linux (Redhat8) and Windows executables. It can be downloaded here:
http://www.ironcode.com/data/natwarlal.zip
Pallav

Hi Pallav ! I love the subject of this post .
It seems that information about the author is missing in the readme file, though. We want to know more about you !
Olivier

Hi,
As already noted, I am from Bangalore, India. I love playing pc games, and Now I am trying to make a living by making & selling them. I used to work as a video codecs programmer before this.
I've always been interested in chess, although I am a bad chess player! Back in 1999, When I was a student, I came across programs like Phalanx & Skaki. That kindled an interest in chess programming, and I started writing a bitboard based program. All I managed to do was design the data structures, and I did not get the time to finish it.
This time however, I decided to keep it simple, and actually finish it!
Dan:
Thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely get around to adding those features.

I am sure that you will succeed.
I am somewhat surprised that there are not more engines from India, since there are a lot of good programmers from that country, and many good chess players also.
I saw another one as a university project, but I do not think it has been released yet.



my ftp site {remove http:// unless you like error messages}

[Tord Romstad]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Tord Romstad at 18 March 2004 10:57:01:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: New chess engine geschrieben von: / posted by: Dann Corbit at 17 March 2004 20:51:24:

I am sure that you will succeed.
I am somewhat surprised that there are not more engines from India, since there are a lot of good programmers from that country, and many good chess players also.

So am I. Good luck, Pallav, and welcome to this forum! I hope you'll continue
posting here.
As you probably know, there is at least one very strong engine: Messchess by
Mridul Mulidharan. Unfortunately it is still private.
Tord

[Uri Blass]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Uri Blass at 18 March 2004 11:24:28:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: New chess engine geschrieben von: / posted by: Tord Romstad at 18 March 2004 10:57:01:

I am sure that you will succeed.
I am somewhat surprised that there are not more engines from India, since there are a lot of good programmers from that country, and many good chess players also.

So am I. Good luck, Pallav, and welcome to this forum! I hope you'll continue
posting here.
As you probably know, there is at least one very strong engine: Messchess by
Mridul Mulidharan. Unfortunately it is still private.
Tord

Based on what do you say that it is very strong?
I know only about one tournament CCT6 when it played without success.
Maybe it improved significantly but I do not know and I prefer not to play or watch games on chess servers.
I think that playing there is a waste of time when people already play a lot of games with free chess engines.
I am not going to play in author only tournaments in ICC because
it is better to use the same time for developing my engine and if I want to look for games of my engine then there are enough nunn games of movei that I never looked at them and I think that it is better if I do not look at them now and use the same time to work on my engine.
Uri

[Tord Romstad]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Tord Romstad at 18 March 2004 18:07:14:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: New chess engine geschrieben von: / posted by: Uri Blass at 18 March 2004 11:24:28:

As you probably know, there is at least one very strong engine: Messchess by
Mridul Mulidharan. Unfortunately it is still private.

Based on what do you say that it is very strong?
I know only about one tournament CCT6 when it played without success.
Maybe it improved significantly but I do not know and I prefer not to play or watch games on chess servers.
I think that playing there is a waste of time when people already play a lot of games with free chess engines.
I am not going to play in author only tournaments in ICC because
it is better to use the same time for developing my engine and if I want to look for games of my engine then there are enough nunn games of movei that I never looked at them and I think that it is better if I do not look at them now and use the same time to work on my engine.

Sorry for misspelling your name, Mridul! The correct name is of course
Mridul Muralidharan.
Based on playing against it many times on the ICC. It is not even close to
being a new Shredder or Ruffian, but it is stronger than the majority of
amateur engines, and almost certainly stronger than mine.
I play there in order to see the latest experimental versions of other ameteur
engines in action, and most of all in order to chat with other engine authors
during the games.
If all I wanted was to improve my engine as rapidly as possible, I would have
done a lot of things very differently.
Tord

[Uri Blass]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Uri Blass at 18 March 2004 19:14:42:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: New chess engine geschrieben von: / posted by: Tord Romstad at 18 March 2004 18:07:14:

As you probably know, there is at least one very strong engine: Messchess by
Mridul Mulidharan. Unfortunately it is still private.

Based on what do you say that it is very strong?
I know only about one tournament CCT6 when it played without success.
Maybe it improved significantly but I do not know and I prefer not to play or watch games on chess servers.
I think that playing there is a waste of time when people already play a lot of games with free chess engines.
I am not going to play in author only tournaments in ICC because
it is better to use the same time for developing my engine and if I want to look for games of my engine then there are enough nunn games of movei that I never looked at them and I think that it is better if I do not look at them now and use the same time to work on my engine.

Sorry for misspelling your name, Mridul! The correct name is of course
Mridul Muralidharan.
Based on playing against it many times on the ICC. It is not even close to
being a new Shredder or Ruffian, but it is stronger than the majority of
amateur engines, and almost certainly stronger than mine.
I play there in order to see the latest experimental versions of other ameteur
engines in action, and most of all in order to chat with other engine authors
during the games.
If all I wanted was to improve my engine as rapidly as possible, I would have
done a lot of things very differently.
Tord

Same for me but I have enough discussions with other people in the internet.
Uri