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Chess engine: KnightX 4.11 (Windows and Linux)




KnightX - winboard chess engine
Author- Christophe Jolly  Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=2825

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).

v4.11:
King safety changed to favor castling
Compiled with gcc version 12.2.0
The regression tests give +30 Elo, but it should be less.



Knightx 4.0 - results:
MadChess 3.2.23/5+15 Games
DoctorB 1.2.1 JA4/4+44 Games
Javelin 1.0.04/4+44 Games
Princhess 0.17.01/4-24 Games
Throttle 3.2.22.5/3+23 Games
Drosophila 1.6 JA2/3+13 Games
Monty 1.0.01.5/3+03 Games
Motor 0.5.00.5/3-23 Games
Bagatur 5.00/3-33 Games
Vault 0.4.1 JA0/3-33 Games
Marvin 6.3.00/3-33 Games
Starzix 5.00/3-33 Games
Lizard 10.40/3-33 Games
Stash 35.26 JA0/3-33 Games
Obsidian 12.290/3-33 Games
Sloth 1.82/2+22 Games
Lishex 1.1.12/2+22 Games
Akira CE 1.1.12/2+22 Games
Zevra 2.52/2+22 Games
ShenYu 2.0.12/2+22 Games
Akira CE 1.122/2+22 Games



KnightX 4.11 - download
homepage:http://technochess.free.fr/index.html

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