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WyldChess  - winboard chess engine Author - Mk-Chan Rating JCER=2428 Overview A free chess engine in C. It does not provide a GUI (Graphical User Interface) but can be linked to one that supports the Xboard/Winboard protocol. WyldChess 1.51 - download

WyldChess  - winboard chess engine Author - Mk-Chan Rating JCER=2407 Overview A free chess engine in C. It does not provide a GUI (Graphical User Interface) but can be linked to one that supports the Xboard/Winboard protocol. The 32-bit and 64-bit executables are available in the binaries folder. Alternatively,  WyldChess  can be compiled using Cygwin or MinGW (Samples available in makefile). Changes: Added Syzygy EGTB support Improved LMR (in part thanks to Ed Schroeder!) Added history heuristic Fixed TT mate-score bugs Better futility pruning Begun switching to c++ for easier coding(and possibly smaller binaries for windows) This version I mainly modified search without changing evaluation much. Self testing shows significant(100+) elo gains at 40moves/90s and a little less at 40/10s+0.1s but I doubt it will work out better than ~50elo going by the CCRL list. Next version I intend to switch completely to C++, actually improve the evaluation and finally a...

WyldChess  - winboard chess engine Author - Mk-Chan Rating JCER=2288 Overview A free chess engine in C. It does not provide a GUI (Graphical User Interface) but can be linked to one that supports the Xboard/Winboard protocol. The 32-bit and 64-bit executables are available in the binaries folder. Alternatively,  WyldChess  can be compiled using Cygwin or MinGW (Samples available in makefile). Changes: Fixed time control bugs where the increment was greater than the total time left Reversed futility pruning(now in the move loop) Fixed check extension bug Improved(and simplified) passed pawn evaluation Refactored move ordering Reverted to old LMR formula(log-based formula missing crucial moves occasionally) Should be ~50 elo stronger and easier to tinker with WyldChess 1.4 - download

WyldChess  - winboard chess engine Author - Mk-Chan Rating JCER=2478 Overview A free chess engine in C. It does not provide a GUI (Graphical User Interface) but can be linked to one that supports the Xboard/Winboard protocol. The 32-bit and 64-bit executables are available in the binaries folder. Alternatively,  WyldChess  can be compiled using Cygwin or MinGW (Samples available in makefile). WyldChess 1.3 - download

WyldChess  - winboard chess engine Author - Mk-Chan Overview A free chess engine in C. It does not provide a GUI (Graphical User Interface) but can be linked to one that supports the Xboard/Winboard protocol. The 32-bit and 64-bit executables are available in the binaries folder. Alternatively, WyldChess can be compiled using Cygwin or MinGW (Samples available in makefile). WyldChess 1.2 - download

P Engine Jcer Score Wyldch Bobcat EXches Sjaak Zevra Galjoe Chg 1: Wyldchess 13.11.2016 2200 20.5 / 30 XXXXXX 010001 000=11 ==1111 111111 =111=1 +84 2: Bobcat 8.0 2789 19.5 / 30 101110 XXXXXX 01=111 111011 000000 111111 -57 3: EXchess 7.92b x64 2776 19.0 / 30 111=00 10=000 XXXXXX 110111 110100 111111 -63 4: Sjaak II 1.4.0 2104 13.0 / 30 ==0000 000100 001000 XXXXXX 111111 110101 +39 5: Zevra 1.2.1 r290 2200 9.0 / 30 000000 111111 001011 000000 XXXXXX 000000 -30 6: Galjoen 0.34 1957 9.0 / 30 =000=0 000000 000000 001010 111111 XXXXXX +39 Temp 3' + 3" Hardware: Intel Core i3-3217U CPU @ 1.80GHz with 3,9 GB Memory , Windows 10 64-bit ⏯  90 tournament games download , GUI-Fritz 14 ,   157.832 JCER games download ,  Book:  Perfect 2016 , Table created -  Scid vs PC

WyldChess  - winboard chess engine Author - Mk-Chan Overview A free chess engine in C. It does not provide a GUI (Graphical User Interface) but can be linked to one that supports the Xboard/Winboard protocol. The 32-bit and 64-bit executables are available in the binaries folder. Alternatively, WyldChess can be compiled using Cygwin or MinGW (Samples available in makefile). WyldChess 13.11.2016 - download

WyldChess  - winboard chess engine Author - Mk-Chan Overview A free chess engine in C. It does not provide a GUI (Graphical User Interface) but can be linked to one that supports the Xboard/Winboard protocol. The 32-bit and 64-bit executables are available in the binaries folder. Alternatively, WyldChess can be compiled using Cygwin or MinGW (Samples available in makefile). WyldChess 04.11.2016 - download

WyldChess  - winboard chess engine Author - Mk-Chan Overview A free chess engine in C. It does not provide a GUI (Graphical User Interface) but can be linked to one that supports the Xboard/Winboard protocol. The 32-bit and 64-bit executables are available in the binaries folder. Alternatively, WyldChess can be compiled using Cygwin or MinGW (Samples available in makefile). WyldChess 22.10.2016 - download

WyldChess  - winboard chess engine Author - Mk-Chan Overview A free chess engine in C. It does not provide a GUI (Graphical User Interface) but can be linked to one that supports the Xboard/Winboard protocol. The 32-bit and 64-bit executables are available in the binaries folder. Alternatively, WyldChess can be compiled using Cygwin or MinGW (Samples available in makefile). WyldChess 13.10.2016 - download

WyldChess - winboard chess engine Author - Mk-Chan Overview A free chess engine in C. It does not provide a GUI (Graphical User Interface) but can be linked to one that supports the Xboard/Winboard protocol. The 32-bit and 64-bit executables are available in the binaries folder. Alternatively, WyldChess can be compiled using Cygwin or MinGW (Samples available in makefile). WyldChess 06.10.2016 - download