A New Gaviota Release

[Miguel A. Ballicora]

Finally, after a long time... version 0.74 for Win32 (other versions later, particularly for Linux).

http://sites.google.com/site/gaviotachessengine/

I may move the site to google sites from the previous one, but I am not sure yet. Do not cast in stone the links.

What is new:
A gazillion changes since 0.33 (6.5 years ago).
It is SMP
It has its own tablebases. It come with 3-pc tbs as an example.
You can generate 4 or 5-pc after opening the engine in console mode and typing tbgen 4 or tbgen 5 (the last one may take a couple of days on a fast dual).
I comes with a new book (~10 Mb), but it still can use the old one.
It may be 200 or 250 elo points stronger than the previous version and apparently has a very agressive style of play.
It supports all the new winboard features, AFAIK.
The documentation is non-existent. I will try to put something decent later.

Regards,
Miguel

[Roger Brown]

Finally, after a long time... version 0.74 for Win32 (other versions later, particularly for Linux).

http://sites.google.com/site/gaviotachessengine/

I may move the site to google sites from the previous one, but I am not sure yet. Do not cast in stone the links.

What is new:
A gazillion changes since 0.33 (6.5 years ago).
It is SMP
It has its own tablebases. It come with 3-pc tbs as an example.
You can generate 4 or 5-pc after opening the engine in console mode and typing tbgen 4 or tbgen 5 (the last one may take a couple of days on a fast dual).
I comes with a new book (~10 Mb), but it still can use the old one.
It may be 200 or 250 elo points stronger than the previous version and apparently has a very agressive style of play.
It supports all the new winboard features, AFAIK.
The documentation is non-existent. I will try to put something decent later.

Regards,
Miguel

Hello Miguel,

YAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

At last I can release my breath!

Thanks for all the good stuff..........and for free too.

Later.

[Tony Mokonen]

There's nothing better than to see a new version of a classic chess engine. Thanks, Miguel.