BigLion
BigLion,
a Chess Engine Communication Protocol aka WinBoard and UCI compliant chess engine by Matthias Gemuh, written in C++ using Borland C++Builder 5.0, first released in April 2002 as announced by Frank Quisinsky [3]. Since 2.23w in fall 2005, BigLion is able to play Chess960 [4].
Contents
Features
Board Representation
Search
Evaluation
- Material
- Pawn Structure
- Bishop Pair
- Rook on Open File
- Rook (Queen) on 7th
- Center Control
- Mobility
- Trapped Bishop
- Connectivity
- Early Queen
- King Safety
- Forks
- Pins
Hash Tables
- Two-tier Transposition Table in Main Search
- Always Replace Transposition Table in Quiescence Search
- Evaluation Hash Table
- Pawn Hash Table
- Move Lists [6]
See also
Forum Posts
2002 ...
- WB/UCI BigLion by Matthias Gemuh is available! by Frank Quisinsky, Winboard Forum, April 23, 2002
- BigLion 0.3 by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, April 27, 2002
- BigLion now has Homepage by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, April 30, 2002
- BigLion 0.5 by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, May 02, 2002
- BigLion 1.0 by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, July 13, 2002
- BigLion against world elite by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, August 04, 2002
- BigLion 1.3 by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, October 11, 2002
- BigLion and Tournaments by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, October 31, 2002
- BigLion and fine 70 by Sune Fischer, Winboard Forum, December 09, 2002 » Lasker-Reichhelm Position
2003
- BigLion says Good Bye by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, March 01, 2003
- BigLion: Now he too can cheat ! by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, May 07, 2003
- BigLion+Taktix : no more updates by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, June 09, 2003
- For Matthias: a question about Big Lion/Taktix by Telmo Escobar, Winboard Forum, June 21, 2003
- BigLion loses 100 Elo points and also 50% speed by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, August 01, 2003
2004
- About BigLion 2.23n (and AEGT) by Matthias Gemuh, Winboard Forum, July 28, 2004
2005 ...
- Chess960 in Fritz9GUI and Winboard_frc by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, November 24, 2005
- BigLion 2.23w and Taktix 2.23w by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, November 24, 2005
- BigLion 2.23x : 2017 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, October 06, 2007
- BigLion80 by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, January 16, 2008
- BigLion and burn out by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, July 17, 2009
- CCC Forum vs BigLion chess960 by Spock, CCC, September 14, 2009
2010 ...
- BigLion and his clan have moved by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, July 14, 2014
External Links
Chess Engine
Misc
- Lion from Wikipedia
- Barbary lion from Wikipedia
- Lion (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- Manu Dibango - Lion of Africa, at the Barbican Centre, London, March 2007, YouTube Video
References
- ↑ Sultan the Barbary Lion, Bronx Zoo , 1899, Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ According to an article from the February 01, 1903 issue of the New York Times, Sultan and a female named Bedouin Maid were gifts to the zoo from Nelson Robinson. “Sultan,” the article states, “is four years old and is considered to be as handsome and perfect a specimen as ever trod a cage floor. He is also unusually good tempered.” from Sultan: A King Among Lions by Vicki Croke, WBUR's The Wild Life, February 17, 2016
- ↑ WB/UCI BigLion by Matthias Gemuh is available! by Frank Quisinsky, Winboard Forum, April 23, 2002
- ↑ BigLion 2.23w and Taktix 2.23w by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, November 24, 2005
- ↑ ChessGUI4Stick.zip\ChessGUI4Stick\Portable_Engines\UCI\BigLion_223\readme.txt
- ↑ BigLion and Tournaments by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, October 31, 2002