BlackBishop is now also available

[Andreas Herrmann]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Andreas Herrmann at 16 April 2004 14:47:51:


i have now uploaded also BlackBishop 0.9.7i. It's about 40-45 ELO stronger than Holmes 0.8.29e.
have a nice weekend
Andreas
PS: There is also a new Parsimony forum inside wbholmes.de for all questions and remarks to the contents of wbholmes.de (e.g. BlackBishop, Holmes, computer chess, chess programming etc).



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[Kurt Utzinger]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Kurt Utzinger at 16 April 2004 15:37:28:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: BlackBishop is now also available geschrieben von:/posted by: Andreas Herrmann at 16 April 2004 14:47:51:

i have now uploaded also BlackBishop 0.9.7i. It's about 40-45 ELO stronger than Holmes 0.8.29e.
have a nice weekend
Andreas
PS: There is also a new Parsimony forum inside wbholmes.de for all questions and remarks to the contents of wbholmes.de (e.g. BlackBishop, Holmes, computer chess, chess programming etc).

Hi Andreas
That's very fine, many thanks. BTW: why BlackBishop
instead of Holmes?
Kurt

[Olivier Deville]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Olivier Deville at 16 April 2004 15:43:54:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: BlackBishop is now also available geschrieben von:/posted by: Andreas Herrmann at 16 April 2004 14:47:51:

i have now uploaded also BlackBishop 0.9.7i. It's about 40-45 ELO stronger than Holmes 0.8.29e.
have a nice weekend
Andreas
PS: There is also a new Parsimony forum inside wbholmes.de for all questions and remarks to the contents of wbholmes.de (e.g. BlackBishop, Holmes, computer chess, chess programming etc).

Andreas, should we consider BlackBishop and Holmes as two distinct engines, or did you keep the same project with another name ?
Olivier


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[Andreas Herrmann]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Andreas Herrmann at 16 April 2004 16:47:03:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: BlackBishop is now also available geschrieben von:/posted by: Kurt Utzinger at 16 April 2004 15:37:28:

i have now uploaded also BlackBishop 0.9.7i. It's about 40-45 ELO stronger than Holmes 0.8.29e.
have a nice weekend
Andreas
PS: There is also a new Parsimony forum inside wbholmes.de for all questions and remarks to the contents of wbholmes.de (e.g. BlackBishop, Holmes, computer chess, chess programming etc).

Hi Andreas
That's very fine, many thanks. BTW: why BlackBishop
instead of Holmes?
Kurt

Hi Kurt,
because BlackBishop sounds better .
Andreas



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[Andreas Herrmann]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Andreas Herrmann at 16 April 2004 16:57:30:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Re: BlackBishop is now also available geschrieben von:/posted by: Olivier Deville at 16 April 2004 15:43:54:

Hi Olivier,

..., should we consider BlackBishop and Holmes as two distinct engines,
or did you keep the same project with another name ?

between BlackBishop and the last version of Holmes, there has been a lot of changes and extensions inside the engine. And the playing style should be also differ in many positions. So you can take it, like you want.
Fact is, that Holmes won't be updated in the future.
have a nice weekend
Andreas




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[Telmo Escobar]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Telmo Escobar at 16 April 2004 17:49:06:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: BlackBishop is now also available geschrieben von:/posted by: Andreas Herrmann at 16 April 2004 14:47:51:

[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "Athlon-1200"]
[Date "2004.04.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Escobar,T"]
[Black "BlackBishop 0.9.7i"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "300"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Be3 Be7
8. Qe2 O-O 9. Bb3 a6 10. O-O-O Qc7 11. Rhg1 Nd7 12. f4 Nc5 13. Kb1 Bf6 14.
g4 Nxb3 15. axb3 Nb4 16. g5 Bd8 17. f5 Qa5 18. f6 g6 19. h4 Bd7 20. Qg2 Bc7
21. h5 d5 22. hxg6 hxg6 23. Qh3 Bb6 24. Qh6 Qa1+ 25. Kxa1 Nxc2+ 26. Kb1
Na3+ 27. bxa3 e5 28. Qg7#
{BlackBishop says white mates} 1-0
Actually this was the second test game- in the first one BlackBishop beat Holmes 0.84k. I decided to try myself. In blitz I never was a good player (but nowadays I'd presumably play bad in any time control)- yet I had a drink during the game and apparently it helped me.
Question: do you think I should adjust some parameter in the configuration (.cfg) file in order to give BlackBishop more concern about king safety? A move like 22...hxg6?? should not be made.
Anyway, in my computer, BlackBishop is still undefeated against other engines

Telmo

[Andreas Herrmann]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Andreas Herrmann at 16 April 2004 19:09:43:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: First game with BlackBishop geschrieben von:/posted by: Telmo Escobar at 16 April 2004 17:49:06:

[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "Athlon-1200"]
[Date "2004.04.16"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Escobar,T"]
[Black "BlackBishop 0.9.7i"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "300"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Be3 Be7
8. Qe2 O-O 9. Bb3 a6 10. O-O-O Qc7 11. Rhg1 Nd7 12. f4 Nc5 13. Kb1 Bf6 14.
g4 Nxb3 15. axb3 Nb4 16. g5 Bd8 17. f5 Qa5 18. f6 g6 19. h4 Bd7 20. Qg2 Bc7
21. h5 d5 22. hxg6 hxg6 23. Qh3 Bb6 24. Qh6 Qa1+ 25. Kxa1 Nxc2+ 26. Kb1
Na3+ 27. bxa3 e5 28. Qg7#
{BlackBishop says white mates} 1-0
Actually this was the second test game- in the first one BlackBishop beat Holmes 0.84k. I decided to try myself. In blitz I never was a good player (but nowadays I'd presumably play bad in any time control)- yet I had a drink during the game and apparently it helped me.
Question: do you think I should adjust some parameter in the configuration (.cfg) file in order to give BlackBishop more concern about king safety? A move like 22...hxg6?? should not be made.
Anyway, in my computer, BlackBishop is still undefeated against other engines

Telmo

Hi Telmo,
nice king attack from you . It's a lot to do in BB, especially pawn storms against the king . Thanks for the game, it should help me to optimize here something in BB.
And adjusting here values in BlackBishop.cfg will not help, because king attacks with only pawns will be nearby ignored in the search.
But isn't the game anyway lost, some moves before 22...hxg6?
best wishes
Andreas



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