Release of Pharaon v3.3 (with Chess 960 support)

[Franck]

Hello !

The last version of Pharaon (v3.3) is available at :

http://www.fzibi.com/pharaon/pharaon.zip


Among the novelties, the support of Chess 960 (also known as Fischer Random Chess),
and a slightly stronger engine (30 elo points ?)

Best Regards+

Franck

[Peter Eizenhammer]

Hello !

The last version of Pharaon (v3.3) is available at :

http://www.fzibi.com/pharaon/pharaon.zip

Franck

Hello Franck,

very good news.
Many thx!

Peter

[Reinhard Scharnagl]

Hello Franck,

there has been a Pharaon Chess960 castling problem within Arena:

[Event "20 min/side + 5 sec/move"]
[Site "CHESSBOX"]
[Date "2005.06.18"]
[Time "15:43:34"]
[Round "Chess960 / 1"]
[White "Smirf-BC-065 (Smirf GUI)"]
[Black "Pharaon 3.3 (Arena GUI)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "R. Scharnagl"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "bbrnnkqr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BBRNNKQR w KQkq - 0 1"]

{The time limit has been passed. There has been NO ANSWER after castling was
entered in Arena GUI.} 1. c4 {(12.01) +0.092} c5 2. Nd3 {(11.15) +0.072} f6 3.
f3 {(11.02) +0.064} b6 4. a3 {(11.02) +0.007} Qf7 5. Ne3 {(11.01) +0.040} O-O
6. Qf2 {(11.00) +0.051} Qh5 7. b3 {(11.01) +0.119} Nc6 8. h4 {(10.29) +0.080}
Nd4 9. g4 {(10.34) +0.590} Qf7 10. Bxd4 {(10.37) +0.469} cxd4 11. Nf5 {(11.35)
+0.610} e5 12. O-O {(10.41) +0.533} 1-0

Regards, Reinhard.

[Franck]

Hi Reinhard,

I failed to reproduce the problem with Pharaon 3.3 under Arena 1.1,
do you have the pharaon log file (in the ./log directory) ?
Do you have noticed other problems with Pharaon in Chess 960 ?

Best regards+

Hello Franck,

there has been a Pharaon Chess960 castling problem within Arena:

[Event "20 min/side + 5 sec/move"]
[Site "CHESSBOX"]
[Date "2005.06.18"]
[Time "15:43:34"]
[Round "Chess960 / 1"]
[White "Smirf-BC-065 (Smirf GUI)"]
[Black "Pharaon 3.3 (Arena GUI)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "R. Scharnagl"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "bbrnnkqr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BBRNNKQR w KQkq - 0 1"]

{The time limit has been passed. There has been NO ANSWER after castling was
entered in Arena GUI.} 1. c4 {(12.01) +0.092} c5 2. Nd3 {(11.15) +0.072} f6 3.
f3 {(11.02) +0.064} b6 4. a3 {(11.02) +0.007} Qf7 5. Ne3 {(11.01) +0.040} O-O
6. Qf2 {(11.00) +0.051} Qh5 7. b3 {(11.01) +0.119} Nc6 8. h4 {(10.29) +0.080}
Nd4 9. g4 {(10.34) +0.590} Qf7 10. Bxd4 {(10.37) +0.469} cxd4 11. Nf5 {(11.35)
+0.610} e5 12. O-O {(10.41) +0.533} 1-0

Regards, Reinhard.

[Reinhard Scharnagl]

Hi Franck,

I merely can give hints, but I have no time left for a deeper beta testing, because I am very engaged in bringing Smirf on the way. Sorry.

Reinhard.

P.S.: I have found a log, here is its ending:

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13:57:15.609 10. ... c5d4
13:57:53.453 <time 95651
13:57:53.469 <otim 75010
13:57:53.469 <e3f5
13:57:53.469 956.5 s remaining for 40 moves => 28.41 s for choosing the next move
13:57:53.469 Setting the HashTables as Old
13:57:53.531 Done
13:57:53.531 0 learned positions added in the HashTables
13:57:53.531 bbr1nrk1/p2ppqpp/1p3p2/5N2/2Pp2PP/PP1N1P2/3PPQ2/1BR2K1R b KQ -
13:57:53.531 50Move in 99 half-moves,DRAW_SCORE:0,SIZE_HT:32,phase:89%,noise:6,Playing:COMPUTER,GUI:WINBOARD,Level:0 20 5,Time_Consumed:16.2%,
13:57:53.531  6.     67    0      277  e5 O-O
13:57:53.531  6->    67    0      311  e5 O-O
13:57:53.531  7.     67    0      313  e5 O-O
13:57:53.531  7->    67    0      347  e5 O-O
13:57:53.531  8.     67    0      349  e5 O-O
13:57:53.531  8->    67    0      383  e5 O-O
13:57:53.531  9.     67    0      385  e5 O-O
13:57:53.531  9->    67    0      419  e5 O-O
13:57:53.531 10.     67    0      421  e5 O-O
13:57:53.531 10->    67    0      455  e5 O-O
13:57:53.531 11.     67    0      457  e5 O-O
13:57:53.531 11->    67    0      491  e5 O-O
13:58:08.984 12.     64   15  7905855  e5 O-O Nd6 Nb2 Bc6 h5 Bc7 b4 a5 Bd3 Qe6 h6 Nxf5 Bxf5 gxh6
13:58:18.062 12->    64   25 12548618  e5 O-O Nd6 Nb2 Bc6 h5 Bc7 b4 a5 Bd3 Qe6 h6 Nxf5 Bxf5 gxh6
>time:24.53s, nodes:12548606, 511 Knps, evals:2480096 (19.8%)
>HT Fill:89.5%, HT Hit:7.8%, HT Cutoff:4.7%, HP Hit:95.3%, HK Hit:94.4%
>FH: 92.7%, CutoffPosition: 1.19, Moins1: 11.6% (1451571/12548606), NULLMOVE Succeed:75.8% (637001/840029)
13:58:18.062 11. ... e7e5
14:00:41.875 <time 93689
14:00:41.875 <otim 61168
14:00:41.875 <O-O
14:00:41.875 Illegal move (O-O)
14:31:17.066 <?
14:31:17.066 Illegal move (?)
14:31:17.097 <force
14:31:17.097 <quit
14:31:17.097 Leaving the program