Month: January 2013

I’ve made many changes to MadChess, detailed below. I tested at my usual bullet time control (2 min + 1 sec / move) and found only a 30 Elo gain, a bit disappointing for so many changes. However, informal testing at 40 moves in 4 min shows a much larger gain- potentially 60 Elo. This makes sense because my engine is a relatively slow searcher. Perhaps the CCRL testers can verify? I removed 174 lines of code and gained 30 Elo. At this rate, if I remove all the code my engine will play with super Grandmaster strength, ha ha!… Continue Reading