Month: October 2012

I have renamed my chess program. Considering my family name is Madsen, I went with the obvious: MadChess. MadChess 1.0 is 150 Elo stronger than its predecessor, RumbleMinze 1.0.33. MadChess 1.0 is nearly equal in strength to MicroMax 4.8 and Roce 0.0390 in bullet chess (2 min / game + 1 sec / move). It is slightly weaker than Faile 1.4. Most of the strength increase is due to incremental move generation (using the C# yield statement) and an incrementally updated list of attackers for any rank, file, upward diagonal, or downward diagonal. This speeds up capture generation and check… Continue Reading