Caligula 0.3

[Pedro Castro]

Caligula is in the shoutbox of:

http://danasah.googlepages.com

README.TXT

Caligula is a winboard compatible chess engine.

Caligula is freeware.

Caligula is based in TSCP initially.
Many thanks to Tom Kerrigan for your source code.
Many thanks to Miguel Izquierdo (Popochin) with whom I interchange email and for his advice on programming.
Many thanks to Ed Shröeder, Fonzy and Jeroen Noomen for the opening book of Prodeo/Rebel.
Many thanks to Daniel Shawul for bitbases.

Differences between Caligula and DanaSah:
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1. The starting point for DanaSah was Firtschess, DanaSah uses as firstchess a board with an array of 64 elements. The starting point of Caligula is TSCP and Caligula as TSCP is used a board with mailbox 12x10.
2. The source code of Caligula is more compact, 116k instead of the 189k of DanaSah.
3. The search for Caligula is more aggressive that the search for DanaSah.
4. The evaluation of Caligua seems to be a little worse than that of DanaSah.
5. Caligula has a opening book more varied.

Caligula is not a substitute for DanaSah, I will continue to develop DanaSah.

[George Speight]

Caligula is in the shoutbox of:

http://danasah.googlepages.com

README.TXT

Caligula is a winboard compatible chess engine.

Caligula is freeware.

Caligula is based in TSCP initially.
Many thanks to Tom Kerrigan for your source code.
Many thanks to Miguel Izquierdo (Popochin) with whom I interchange email and for his advice on programming.
Many thanks to Ed Shröeder, Fonzy and Jeroen Noomen for the opening book of Prodeo/Rebel.
Many thanks to Daniel Shawul for bitbases.

Differences between Caligula and DanaSah:
--------------------------------------------------
1. The starting point for DanaSah was Firtschess, DanaSah uses as firstchess a board with an array of 64 elements. The starting point of Caligula is TSCP and Caligula as TSCP is used a board with mailbox 12x10.
2. The source code of Caligula is more compact, 116k instead of the 189k of DanaSah.
3. The search for Caligula is more aggressive that the search for DanaSah.
4. The evaluation of Caligua seems to be a little worse than that of DanaSah.
5. Caligula has a opening book more varied.

Caligula is not a substitute for DanaSah, I will continue to develop DanaSah.

Hi Pedro. Im guessing that at this time you dont really have a firm idea of its elo rating. Or do you?

Best,

[Pedro Castro]

ELO caligula 0.3 = ELO danasah 3.63 - 50 ?

[Olivier Deville]

Caligula 0.2 got a rating of 2204 in ChessWar (last rating of DanaSah is 2402). But I trust Caligula 0.3 is improved compared to 0.2.

Olivier