Darmenios (ICGA Torneos)

Darmenios

Persona	Role
Dariusz Czechowski	engine programmer

Torneo	Participantes	Resultado	Juego
Chess, 2010, Kanazawa	10	2.0	9
Chess (Software), 2010, Kanazawa	9	2.0	8

Description given in 2010:

first version 0.1 released in January 2010
supporting winboard protocol
latest stable version: 0.3 (ELO about 2390), available at http://darczech.ovh.org/lpps/
latest version: 0.5 (ELO about 2560) - currently testing
version 1.0 release planning at August 2010
written in c++, all source code was implemented by myself (not based by any other authors)
alpha-beta searching with null-move prunning, quiescence search and history based move ordering
bitboard-based legal moves generator
opening book generated from grandmaster games (about 4.6M positions)
hash table with special replacement algorithm
simple evaluation function (mobility, piece-square and free pawns only), will be improve in near future