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Chess engine: KnightX 3.9 (Windows and Linux)



KnightX - winboard chess engine
Author- Christophe Jolly  Rating JCER=2790

KnightXa Chess Engine Communication Protocol compliant chess engine by Christophe Jolly, written in C, and alias and successor of the native Windows program Techno Chess. KnightX, supporting WinBoard, was first published in December 1999, and since 2004, KnightX 1.86 runs under Linux via XBoard. KnightX played the Massy 2003 French Programmers Tournament, and the FCCC 2003 French Computer Chess Championship. After a long break from 2005 with KnightX 1.92, Christophe Jolly had his comeback in February 2019, when he released Knightx 1.93, continuing with subsequent versions. ( source: Chess Programming Wiki).

v3.9:
Fixed a limitation in the loading of a FEN position. The engine couldn't always set a position containing doubled pawns
Doesn't stop the search when a mate has been found
New search function at the root position
Tree searching parameters adjustment
Positional evaluation parameters adjusted with the Texel's tuning method



Knightx - rating CEDR progres
Pl Engine Rating Score Games %
1282 Knightx 3.6a 2790.9 110.00 359 30.64
1298 Knightx 3.3 2774.9 147.00 500 29.40
1300 Knightx 3.7b 2771.7 173.50 553 31.37
1315 Knightx 3.5 2758.5 52.00 207 25.12
1323 Knightx 3.8 2750.8 181.00 499 36.27
1337 Knightx 3.4 2732.7 49.50 202 24.50
1349 Knightx 3.2 2702.5 14.50 30 48.33
1354 Knightx 3.5.1 2690.5 4.50 28 16.07
1458 Knightx 2.1b 2524.7 40.50 114 35.53


KnightX 3.9 - download
homepage:http://technochess.free.fr/index.html

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