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HeavyChess
http://ar.geocities.com/fedecorigliano/ ... eavychess/

I think it is written by Federico Andrés Corigliano, author of Chispa
The download has C++ source code with comments in Spanish
Heavychess 013 release date: April 22, 2007

Older versions are available for download.

Ron

It is indeed a new (old) engine. I noticed that he noticed both directories (chispa and Heavychess) on the same day. So may be heavychess is sort of a lobotomized version for beginners. I wish my computer was working properly, then I would have threw this new beast same opponents Chispa played against, and see how it fairs against them..

It's an interesting engine.

It searches *really* fast, but has no concept of king shelter and has real trouble with horizon problems (I guess it may lack a qsearch or something).

It has no opening book. It appears to have threading code, so it may be SMP, but I have not investigated that far yet.

Ron Murawski wrote:This engine does not appear on any lists.

HeavyChess
http://ar.geocities.com/fedecorigliano/ ... eavychess/

I think it is written by Federico Andrés Corigliano, author of Chispa
The download has C++ source code with comments in Spanish
Heavychess 013 release date: April 22, 2007

Older versions are available for download.

Ron

Well done Ron ! Yes this engine was unknown. Let's test it at once

Olivier

Dann Corbit wrote:It's an interesting engine.

It searches *really* fast, but has no concept of king shelter and has real trouble with horizon problems (I guess it may lack a qsearch or something).

It has no opening book. It appears to have threading code, so it may be SMP, but I have not investigated that far yet.

Hello Dann,
I tried HeavyChess 0.13 at Winboard but did not make any move. My OS is Windows XP.
Please your comments.
Pablo Urzua

Pablo wrote:

Dann Corbit wrote:It's an interesting engine.

It searches *really* fast, but has no concept of king shelter and has real trouble with horizon problems (I guess it may lack a qsearch or something).

It has no opening book. It appears to have threading code, so it may be SMP, but I have not investigated that far yet.

Hello Dann,
I tried HeavyChess 0.13 at Winboard but did not make any move. My OS is Windows XP.
Please your comments.
Pablo Urzua

Hola Pablo

It is because HeavyChess is an UCI engine Try it with polyglot, works fine here.

Olivier