Month: July 2017

I have released version 2.2 of my chess engine. Source code and Windows binaries are available on the Downloads page. MadChess 2.2 is about 50 Elo stronger than version 2.1. It includes the following improvements. Added best move estimation. In principal variations where the cached position does not specify a best move, MadChess will search at reduced depth to obtain a best move. Then it completes the full depth search, searching the best move first. This is called Internal Iterative Deepening (IID) in other engines, though I find the name misleading. It’s recursive but not iterative. Added endgame piece location… Continue Reading