AdaChess
AdaChess,
an open source chess engine by Alessandro Iavicoli, written in Ada and released under the GPL license [3].
The development started in early 2012 and the first version has been released on January 21, 2013. Full compliant to the rules of chess, it also recognize draws by insufficient material.
AdaChess is a console application without own GUI, but supports the Chess Engine Communication Protocol aka WinBoard/XBoard protocol.
So far, AdaChess played the IGT 2014, IGT 2015, IGT 2016, IGT 2017 and IGT 2018 G 6 tournaments, and the PT 54 CSVN tournament [4] [5], all over the board.
Contents
Features
Board Representation
Search
- Iterative Deepening
- Aspiration Windows
- Principal Variation Search
- Transposition Table
- Move Ordering
- Selectivity
- Quiescence Search
Evaluation
- Tapered Eval
- Material
- Bishop Pair
- Piece-Square Tables
- Mobility
- Tempo
- Pawn Structure
- King Safety
- Castling Rights
- Open Files near the King
- Attacking King Zone
- Pawn Shield
- Pawn Storm
Forum Posts
- AdaChess v2.0 released by Alessandro Iavicoli, CCC, August 16, 2014
- AdaChess v2016.11.08-pre released, by Alessandro Iavicoli, CCC, November 08, 2016
- AdaChess v.30 releasedby Alessandro Iavicoli, CCC, October 29, 2018
- IGT 2018 - Man vs Machine by Alessandro Iavicoli, CCC, October 29, 2018
- Re: fast(er) movegen by Alessandro Iavicoli, CCC, December 10, 2018
- AdaChess release 3.6 available! by Alessandro Iavicoli, CCC, August 12, 2019
External Links
References
- ↑ Ada Lovelace by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, 1836, oil on canvas, Government Art Collection, Ada Lovelace from Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ The programming language Ada was named after Ada Lovelace, who has been credited as the first computer programmer, Ada (programming language) from Wikipedia
- ↑ The announced AdaChess by PreChess author José Lauro Strapasson is confirmed defunct
- ↑ AdaChess al Csvn, G 6
- ↑ Interview on g-sei, December 12, 2018
- ↑ Features based on AdaChess download, AdaChess-v3.1.zip\src\
- ↑ Re: fast(er) movegen by Alessandro Iavicoli, CCC, December 10, 2018