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New version of Goyaz

PostPosted: 25 Aug 2007, 22:28
by Wander Ferreira Jr
Hi there,

There is a new version of Goyaz and it is already winning games from others engines!!! :D

It won against Geko 0.4.3, Xadreco 5.7 and Testina 2.2. :)

It also got even against Gedeone 1620 and Youk 1.05.

The changes were basically two:

- Don't reexamine the entire board to calculate the new value for the position, just erase the "from square", the "captured piece" and add the "to square". This is possible because I just have piece-square tables, nothing more. It did a nice 100% speed-up;

- Move ordering. It cuts 95% of the nodes that weren't cut in the previous version.

I didn't estimate it's new rating yet.

I have some of the games it played in this new version in my site (http://wferreirajr.googlepages.com/index-en.htm)

Just go to download section. You can see the games in your browser, no need to download!

Send me some comments on it!!!

Thanks!

Re: New version of Goyaz

PostPosted: 26 Aug 2007, 10:19
by Olivier Deville
Hi Wander !

This new version looks much improved compared to the first one.

I got your registration to OpenWar, Goyaz will be tested there very soon :)

Olivier