Pandix
Authors
| Person | Role |
|---|---|
| Gyula Horváth | engine programmer |
Participations
| Version | Tournament | Title | Participants | Score | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chess, 2013, Yokohama | Third Place | 6 | 5.5 | 10 | |
| Chess (Software), 2013, Yokohama | Second Place | 6 | 6.5 | 10 | |
| Chess (Blitz), 2013, Yokohama | Third Place | 4 | 2.5 | 3 | |
| Chess, 2011, Tilburg | 9 | 5.0 | 8 | ||
| Chess (Software), 2011, Tilburg | 5 | 3.5 | 8 | ||
| Chess (Blitz), 2011, Tilburg | 6 | 4.5 | |||
| Pandix Breakthrough | Chess, 2010, Kanazawa | 10 | 5.0 | 9 | |
| Pandix Breakthrough | Chess (Software), 2010, Kanazawa | 9 | 5.0 | 8 | |
| Pandix 2009 | Chess, 2009, Pamplona | 10 | 1.5 | 9 | |
| Chess (no hardware limit), 2009, Pamplona | 6 | 1.5 | 5 | ||
| Chess (Blitz), 2009, Pamplona | 9 | 3.5 | 8 | ||
| Chess, 1996, Jakarta | 27 | 5.0 | 11 | ||
| Chess, 1995, Shatin | 24 | 2.0 | 5 | ||
| Chess, 1993, Munich | 28 | 5.5 | 9 | ||
| Chess, 1992, Madrid | 22 | 2.5 | 5 | ||
| Chess, 1989, Portorož | 9 | 4.5 | 8 | ||
| Chess, 1989, London | 9 | 4.5 | 8 | ||
| Chess, 1989, Edmonton | 24 | 2.0 | 5 | ||
| Chess (Software), 1988, Almeria | World PC Champion | 7 | 2.5 | 6 | |
| Chess, 1987, Rome | Amateur World Microcomputer Chess Champion | 7 | 1.5 | 6 |
Descriptions
- Description given in 2010:
Between 1984-1995 I was developing Pandix.Then I stopped working on it. I just participated on the Hungarian computer chess tournaments for fun. (with tiny modifications on the code) Since 2006 I develop Pandix again as a strong hobby. My aim is to create a new algorithm what is radically different from all the published sources. Eventually it seems that the invested efforts are paying back, and Pandix starts to be extremely strong.Currently it is single thread, but for the Kanazawa tournament I'll make it multi thread + egtb will be used there. (It'll be done for summer, and by the tournament it'll be well tested.) Pandix is a Windows UCI application.
- Description given in 1995:
Gyula Horvath started writing chess programs in 1985. His program won the Amateur World Chess Championship in 1987 and the Personal Computer Chess Champion title in 1988 and 1989. His wife, Szuzsa, joined the development in 1986. She is mainly active in testing the program and in designing and programming the graphics of the commercial versions of the program. Both of them pursue chess programming as a hobby - Gyula works as a marketing researcher and Zsuzsa works as a telemarketing assistant. They have participated in various computer chess events since 1986. In 1993 their team increased to three members when Csaba Szues began to implement a new 100,000 moves opening book. The program is written in C and uses a 400KB hash table. It measures the move interestingness and incrementally updates the attack map. The program uses principal variation search, advanced time control and special limited quiescence search.
- Description given in 1988:
Besides the WORLD PC Champion title, Pandix won the Amateur Micro World Championtitle as well.