Has anyone compiled Colchess for windows? -nt-

[Andrew Tanner]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Andrew Tanner am 18 Januar 2000 23:19:10:

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Dann Corbit am 19 Januar 2000 01:50:17:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Has anyone compiled Colchess for windows? -nt- geschrieben von:/posted by: Andrew Tanner am 18 Januar 2000 23:19:10:
What's ColChess?
Is the source available?


My FTP site

[Andrew Tanner]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Andrew Tanner am 19 Januar 2000 05:36:58:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: Has anyone compiled Colchess for windows? -nt- geschrieben von:/posted by: Dann Corbit am 19 Januar 2000 01:50:17:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~cmf/chess/
from the web page: "ColChess is very much experimental at the moment and uses the brute force analysis method for tree searching, meaning that it analyses far more nodes per move than an ordinary chess program such as GNUChess or Crafty."

What's ColChess?
Is the source available?

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Dann Corbit am 19 Januar 2000 21:24:46:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: Has anyone compiled Colchess for windows? -nt- geschrieben von:/posted by: Andrew Tanner am 19 Januar 2000 05:36:58:

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~cmf/chess/
from the web page: "ColChess is very much experimental at the moment and uses the brute force analysis method for tree searching, meaning that it analyses far more nodes per move than an ordinary chess program such as GNUChess or Crafty."

One of the easiest ports I have ever done. Took about 2 minutes. I won't post anything until I get his permission.

[Andrew Tanner]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Andrew Tanner am 19 Januar 2000 23:33:52:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: Has anyone compiled Colchess for windows? -nt- geschrieben von:/posted by: Dann Corbit am 19 Januar 2000 21:24:46:
Thx Dann,

#ifdef xboard // Temporary hack to make sure it plays at a sensible level with xboard.
computer_side=2;
tlimit=5;
depth=4;
#endif
I'm not sure if this code in chess.c is supposed to be uncommented for proper functioning under winboard. Wouldn't this limit the depth to 4?

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~cmf/chess/
from the web page: "ColChess is very much experimental at the moment and uses the brute force analysis method for tree searching, meaning that it analyses far more nodes per move than an ordinary chess program such as GNUChess or Crafty."

One of the easiest ports I have ever done. Took about 2 minutes. I won't post anything until I get his permission.

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Dann Corbit am 20 Januar 2000 00:34:33:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Great News! geschrieben von:/posted by: Andrew Tanner am 19 Januar 2000 23:33:52:
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!
Come and get it!
ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/COLCHESS.ZIP


My FTP site

[Colin Frayn]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Colin Frayn am 20 Januar 2000 11:45:14:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Great News! geschrieben von:/posted by: Andrew Tanner am 19 Januar 2000 23:33:52:

#ifdef xboard // Temporary hack to make sure it plays at a sensible level > with xboard.
computer_side=2;
tlimit=5;
depth=4;
#endif
I'm not sure if this code in chess.c is supposed to be uncommented for
proper functioning under winboard. Wouldn't this limit the depth to 4?

That code section is not in the latest release. I've since found better ways of doing it. Hence 'temporary hack'
Try downloading V4.4.1
Depth simply sets the _minimum_ depth for the search.
Enjoy the game!
Cheers,
Colin

ColChess Homepage

[Jon Harrop]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Jon Harrop am 20 Januar 2000 16:26:52:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Great News! geschrieben von:/posted by: Andrew Tanner am 19 Januar 2000 23:33:52:

Thx Dann,

#ifdef xboard // Temporary hack to make sure it plays at a sensible level with xboard.

So it isn't even written in valid ANSI C? That's just poor. Looks a bit amateurish to me. Last time I played it I lost - it checkmated me with it's king.
I'm off to smoke some Parmesan...
Cheers,
A most unimpressed Jon.