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With permission of Anthony Cozzie I'm proud to offer a public beta release of his engine Zappa.

Release Notes:

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Release notes, Zappa 0.8 public beta:

1. Zappa should support both Winboard (v2 only) and UCI.

2. Parallel search is available, but must be specified in the config
file.  >2 CPUs will almost certainly fail, and while the parallel search
is working fine under Linux, I haven't tested it that much under
Windows.  On Linux Zappa gets a speedup of 1.85 (test set: 3 positions).

3. Extensions are all there to be modified.  Singular Extensions are
enabled more to test them then because of their strength.

4. The executable runs on processors with SSE2 instruction support only
(Pentium 4, Athlon 64, Opteron, and Pentium M).  I don't know why, but
my compiler (Visual Studio 7.1) refuses to create a file without them.

5. No book is included, so you are free to use any book you like.

6.  If you are reporting test results, please report which book and any
changes you made to the search parameters.

7. This is definitely a beta; I would very surprised if quite a few bugs
did not come out.  So email me (acozzie (AT) verizon.net) with bug reports
&/| feature requests.  Please include the log file (zappa_log.txt) in
any bug reports.


You can find the program here: http://volker-pittlik.name/wbdownload.html

Thanks to Anthony Cozzie!

Regards

Volker

Any chances to also make available a non-SSE executable that will run on 32 bit Athlon machines (i.e. Athlon XP and Athlon TB) as well as Pentium 3 and the likes?

Robert

Robert Allgeuer wrote:Any chances to also make available a non-SSE executable that will run on 32 bit Athlon machines (i.e. Athlon XP and Athlon TB) as well as Pentium 3 and the likes?

Robert

I hope one of the compiler gurus knows the appropriate options? Wild guessing: /G6?

Volker

Hi,

I make a little tournament with 84 games vs UCI Engines:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/lefouduroi/tournois/tournois.htm

Inofficial first Ruel: 2499

I can not used Zappa with Shredder Classic or CB GUI.

Regards,
Patrick

Hi all

I could run Zappa as UCI engine under Fritz8 (Athlon64 3000+), but got some losses on time (40/5).

More tests later.

Olivier