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hi all!
A new italian engine called Chaturanga is out!

http://www.geocities.com/mallox02

Greetings, Ciro

Ciro Vignotto wrote:hi all!
A new italian engine called Chaturanga is out!

http://www.geocities.com/mallox02

Greetings, Ciro

Is it a Winboard engine?

I believe that the name 'Chaturanga' must be changed because it's already in use by a commercial program. Take a look at the Chaturanga site.

Ron

Telmo wrote:

Ciro Vignotto wrote:hi all!
A new italian engine called Chaturanga is out!

http://www.geocities.com/mallox02

Greetings, Ciro

Is it a Winboard engine?

I only had a quick look at it and also don't understand Italian, unfortunately. But the program can load a file with a fen-string and analyze this position.
Don't know if the winboard or uci protocol are implemented but I wasn't able to talk to it that way (maybe someone who speaks Italian can ask the author about the details).

Roman

Chaturanga is indeed a Winboard engine. I was successful to have it playing a game after adding the following lines to my winboard.ini file:

"Chaturanga xboard"/fd=d:\whatever_chaturanga_folder
"Chaturanga xboard"/sd=d:\samefolder

Actually I don't know if the suffix "xboard" is necessary, I still don't experiment without it.

Chaturanga plays pretty bad and is prone to lost in time.

Also it stays in memory after the games!

Telmo

Telmo
I have Windows98SE.
I tried in my PC the winboard.ini command line with xboard and/or -xboard and without xboard, but Chaturanga do not make any move and stay in memory. I tried also with winboard conventional and incremental clock without result.
Pablo Urzua

Chaturanga is indeed a Winboard engine. I was successful to have it playing a game after adding the following lines to my winboard.ini file:

"Chaturanga xboard"/fd=d:\whatever_chaturanga_folder
"Chaturanga xboard"/sd=d:\samefolder

Actually I don't know if the suffix "xboard" is necessary, I still don't experiment without it.

Chaturanga plays pretty bad and is prone to lost in time.

Also it stays in memory after the games!

Telmo[/quote]

pug wrote:Telmo
I have Windows98SE.
I tried in my PC the winboard.ini command line with xboard and/or -xboard and without xboard, but Chaturanga do not make any move and stay in memory. I tried also with winboard conventional and incremental clock without result.

I forgot to address another apparent problem. Read my file Chaturanga.ini:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
[General]
Profondita=5
CanCastle=3

[Log]
Level=1
Enabled=0

[Print]
Position=N
[Time]
Enabled=0
[Book]
Enabled=1
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Nota Bene the line "Profondita=5" (that is depth 5). This engine is very very slow. If, for example, you have "Profondita=10" in your Chaturanga.ini file, Chaturanga probably will lose on time before making any moves. Also it seems that Chaturanga doesn't understand about time controls at all, it just calculates to the assignated depth.

I also have W98.

Regards

Telmo

Hola Telmo
Thanks for your advises.
I have an opening book for Chaturanga.
If you do not have it, please let me know.
Pablo

Telmo wrote:

pug wrote:Telmo
I have Windows98SE.
I tried in my PC the winboard.ini command line with xboard and/or -xboard and without xboard, but Chaturanga do not make any move and stay in memory. I tried also with winboard conventional and incremental clock without result.

I forgot to address another apparent problem. Read my file Chaturanga.ini:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
[General]
Profondita=5
CanCastle=3

[Log]
Level=1
Enabled=0

[Print]
Position=N
[Time]
Enabled=0
[Book]
Enabled=1
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Nota Bene the line "Profondita=5" (that is depth 5). This engine is very very slow. If, for example, you have "Profondita=10" in your Chaturanga.ini file, Chaturanga probably will lose on time before making any moves. Also it seems that Chaturanga doesn't understand about time controls at all, it just calculates to the assignated depth.

I also have W98.

Regards

Telmo

pug wrote:Hola Telmo
Thanks for your advises.
I have an opening book for Chaturanga.
If you do not have it, please let me know.
Pablo

No, I don't have the opening book for Chaturanga. Is that a plain text file? Till now, I have paid no attention to the question of the opening book. A file called book.txt has been automatically created by the engine after playing a game, but it has 0 bites.

regards

Telmo