Thursday, April 26, 2012

Interview on a webpage

 Last summer I had an interview for an spanish online demo magazine, it can be read it at

http://escena.org/wiki/page/eszine__entrevista_le_festy/ (in spanish)

I don't know why I didn't mention it before.

Friday, April 20, 2012

ChessKISS 1.6

The new version of ChessKISS is ready to be downloaded, this version easily beats version 1.5b.

What's new?


20/04/12, 1.6 Some enhancements

-General
  Asserts added (only in debug version)
  Renaming...

-Endgame
  New KN vs KP
  Fixed error in KB vs KP

-See
  Fixed an Enpassant issue

-Bitboards
  New class TBitboardHelper
  New steps to include some kind of magic bitboards

-Board
  IsPinned() now handles two variants of attacks

-Definitions
  New hash type htNone

-Search
  Avoid check explosion
  Now killers work by play rather than by depth
  History and killers not updated when in check
  Fixed a silly bug in the dynamic aspiration window >=2 should be > 2
  Changes in extension: check only extended when non bad captures or in PV, added winning captures in PV
  Pruning of non capture evasions

-Move
  New SetType()

-PV
  Minor changes...

-See
  Early exit

New version of the framework BB 1.3b

 There is a new version of the BB framework, it is neede4d if you want to compile ChessKISS, HBF or any demo project.

What's new?

  • Colorkey issues fixed
  • Files handled correctly in maps when they are in different folders than main executable
  • Fixed really nasty collision bug via UpdateCollider()
  • Fixed some memory leaks
  • Swap the way KeyPress() is handled  in Input
  • Some bugs fixed
  • Some little improvements



Jilon is now HBF

 I've change the name of this experiment, the binaries and sources are already available. What's new?

  • If you "finish" the game there is a highscore table with time and coins
  • Some bugs fixed
  • Some little improvements here and there
  • INI file

Sunday, April 15, 2012

New version of Jilon

 There is a new version of Jiloff ready to be downloaded, let me know what do you think. I've improved the gameplay, fixed several bugs, clean the file structure, modified the scroll in order to be more parallax, added animated tiles and added some level...


Monday, April 9, 2012

WBEC Ridderkerk 5th division group C test results

 Test at Dual core Phenom 3100 at 40/3, ponder=on
AMD-PHENOM-3100, 2012.04.06 - 2012.04.08
                           Score     I T B C B K C M F G R M W R T S Y J J V D Z C N N M
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 1: Ifrit m1.5-x64-JA    24.0 / 25   X 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 2: TJchess 1.1-x64      22.0 / 25   0 X = 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 = 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 3: BikJump 2.01-x64     20.5 / 25   0 = X 1 0 0 1 = 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 4: ChessKISS 1.5b-x64   19.0 / 25   0 0 0 X 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 = 0 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 5: BigLion 2.23w        19.0 / 25   0 0 1 0 X = 0 1 0 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 6: KMTchess-121-x64-JA  18.5 / 25   0 = 1 0 = X 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 = 1 1 1
 7: Capivara LK 0.08a09  18.5 / 25   0 0 0 0 1 1 X = 1 = 0 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 8: Matant 5.04          18.0 / 25   0 0 = 0 0 0 = X 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
 9: FrankWalter 1.08     17.0 / 25   0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 X 1 0 = 1 0 1 1 = 1 1 = 1 1 = 1 1 1
10: Gerbil 0.2           16.5 / 25   0 0 0 0 = 1 = 0 0 X 1 = 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
11: RivalChess 1.18      14.5 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 X 0 = = 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
12: Mustang 4.97         14.0 / 25   = 0 = = 0 0 0 0 = = 1 X 1 1 1 = 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1
13: Warrior 1.0.3        13.5 / 25   0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 X = 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
14: Roce 0.0390          11.5 / 25   0 = 0 = 0 0 0 0 1 0 = 0 = X = 0 1 0 1 = 1 = 1 1 1 1
15: TSCP 1.81            11.0 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 1 0 0 0 = X = = 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
16: Surprise 4.3-b13JA   11.0 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = = = 1 = X 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
17: Yoda 2.09            10.0 / 25   = = 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 X 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
18: Jabba 1032012        10.0 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 X 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1
19: J.S.BAM 0.52          9.0 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 X 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
20: Vapor 0.01-r12        6.5 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 = 1 0 0 0 0 X 1 0 1 1 = 1
21: Dimitri 2.01          5.5 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 1 1 = 1 1
22: Zadrexsaurus 0.41     5.0 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 = 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 X 0 = 1 0
23: CMCChess 2.27-uci     3.0 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 X 1 0 0
24: Nanook 1.6            3.0 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = = 0 X 1 1
25: Numpty Omega          2.5 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 1 0 X 1
26: Marquis 0.1.6         2.0 / 25   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 X
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325 games: +159 =35 -131