QChess - new (old?) chess engine?!

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QChess - new (old?) chess engine?!

Postby Mihail Croitor » 01 Jun 2006, 14:14

Yesterday my wife maked a present me - gived a book named "How to program a chess game and other logic games" (Russian) and at +CD was a chess program by book's author Korniloff E. named QChess (ver. 1.02 (alpha) ; 2004). It have a graphical interface but support WB.
Link:
http://graycrow.narod.ru/qchess.rar
Is a new engine?! i cant find anithing about it on Internet.
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Re: QChess - new (old?) chess engine?!

Postby Guenther Simon » 01 Jun 2006, 16:28

Mihail Croitor wrote:Yesterday my wife maked a present me - gived a book named "How to program a chess game and other logic games" (Russian) and at +CD was a chess program by book's author Korniloff E. named QChess (ver. 1.02 (alpha) ; 2004). It have a graphical interface but support WB.
Link:
http://graycrow.narod.ru/qchess.rar
Is a new engine?! i cant find anithing about it on Internet.


Thanks for the tip! I have tried it and it works with no
problems in WB. It even does learn, has an implemented
book(which can be disabled), seems to have a decent time
management and minimizes its own GUI, when started
under WB.
It is called QChess 1.02 alpha demo, because there also
exists(existed?) a full version, which costed 25$ in 2004.
I have no idea though what the differences would be to the
full version.
Yet I have also no clue about its playing strength, but a very
rough first guess would be, it's not too weak.
A pity though it doesn't display its thinking under WB but
only in its own GUI.

Welcome to the league of WB/UCI program finders ;-)

Regards,
Guenther
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Re: QChess - new (old?) chess engine?!

Postby Mihail Croitor » 06 Jun 2006, 08:08

Hello Guenther,

Thank you, Guenther, for good words :)

tested somebody this engine?!

regards, Mihail
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Re: QChess - new (old?) chess engine?!

Postby Vladimir Medvedev » 07 Jun 2006, 09:58

Mihail Croitor wrote:Yesterday my wife maked a present me - gived a book named "How to program a chess game and other logic games" (Russian) and at +CD was a chess program by book's author Korniloff E. named QChess (ver. 1.02 (alpha) ; 2004). It have a graphical interface but support WB.
Link:
http://graycrow.narod.ru/qchess.rar
Is a new engine?! i cant find anithing about it on Internet.


I have read this book in Russian. It looks like a bad translation of many English materials gathered from different internet forums... :(
Author did not even translate correctly the word "Queen" (in Russian it is "ферзь", not "королева")...

The book contains some interesting ideas on search (at least, they were new for me). But _nothing_ about evaluation :)
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