Delfi
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Delfi is a Winboard/UCI chess engine written in Pascal designed by Italian chess programmer Fabio Cavicchio. It is designed to emulate a human playing style and is rated 2627 on the CEGT . The latest released version is 5.4. Source code for version 5.1 is available.

Technical details

From its release page, Delfi does not use bitboards like Crafty
Crafty
Crafty is a chess program written by UAB professor Dr. Robert Hyatt. It is directly derived from Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships....

, but uses 16 x 16 array of bytes for board presentation. It uses capture history heuristic & smart thinking time allocation, from 50% to 400% of the average time. When some moves seem equal in its evaluation, it makes random moves.

External links

  • http://www.msbsoftware.it/delfi/
  • http://www.msbsoftware.it/delfi/delfirel.htm
  • http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details/Delfi.html
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