atomictheory
commented
9 years ago As far as the Chenard code is concerned I used it solely for Xboard compatibility. Since Chenard is both Xboard compatible and easily compiles under MSVC, it seemed a good shortcut instead of trying to develop Xboard compatibility from scratch.
By now I reached Xboard compatiblity on my own. In the 'project' directory you can find my latest version of Simplemente which is:
- fully Xboard compatible on its own ( no Chenard code involved )
- compiles both under MSVC and G++
- in deep search it supports POSIX standard multi-threading and can make use of arbitrary number of cores
- it understands san notation and can parse pgn
I have a running Windows-64 compile of Atomkraft but it crashes too often to be great fun.
Hello atomictheory,
it seems that Simplemente crashes suddenly on Windows 7 32-bit if it plays with the black pieces. cf. details about the game http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55660
Mike Adams, author of Pulsar, said: http://www.lanternchess.com/pulsar/pulsarscoop2.html fics use the fics program argument to tell pulsar to play atomic by fics rules, i.e. no castle in check.
I've never noticed any en passant bugs in pulsar.
by program argument it means you start it like
winboard.exe -fcp "pulsar.exe fics" -sgf pulsargames.pgn
If i recall right.
Don Cross, aauthor of Chenard, said: http://cosinekitty.com/chenard/ This is all news to me. I was not aware of Simplemente, so I'm not sure what it is doing. No, Chenard does not play anything but standard chess. That's cool if somebody wants to take the Chenard code and experiment with it, because I make it freely available to the public.
However, I looked through the source code, and yes, there is some Chenard code in a subdirectory in this GitHub project, but it does not look like the Simplemente code uses it for anything. Have you tried asking the author of Simplemente? Sorry I could not be more help.
Current WinBoard 4.8.0 is here available: http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51528
By the way: could you make a Windows 32/64 bit compile of atomkraft https://github.com/golmman/atomkraft please?
Best wishes, Norbert