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General Chess Discussion - Beginner friendly chess engine#33

SCE v1.2.2 is now available. This version fixes a bug in hash calculation function that could lead to suboptimal moves in certain positions.


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Lichess Feedback - Highlight color#1

Is there a way to change move highlight color? I selected the darkgray theme, and the salad color highlight does not go well with it. Maybe there can be a 'hue' slider or something? It's cheap to impl…


alexnic
General Chess Discussion - Beginner friendly chess engine#32

There's a lengthy list of chess engines on computer-chess.org and nobody asks why they aren't all clones of Stockfish 5.


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General Chess Discussion - Beginner friendly chess engine#30

Version 1.2.1 of the engine is now available in which a small bug was fixed: promotion piece was missing from engine's output, which most GUIs treat as default promotion to Queen.


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General Chess Discussion - Beginner friendly chess engine#29

Just tested SCE v1.2 with Jose Database and it worked fine. This GUI has one of the widest choice of piece sets and board backgrounds. It may solve your problems for now. Good luck in your chess play!


alexnic
General Chess Discussion - Beginner friendly chess engine#28

If you don't like Arena's GUI you might try 'jose chess database'. It has nice visual styles, including wood and marble, but has not been updated in ages. It still has a number of bugs which makes it …


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General Chess Discussion - Beginner friendly chess engine#26

A little note about the depth setting. If it seems too low, don't be confused by it, because it only affects the main depth, and not capture test depth, and also the evaluation function adds the equiv…


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General Chess Discussion - Beginner friendly chess engine#25

chunkymonkey, nice to hear you got it working. I updated the program to version 1.2. Now you can choose the analysis depth in engine parameters and the default is set to 4. Set depth to 3 for most eas…


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General Chess Discussion - Beginner friendly chess engine#23

Also, if you downloaded the 'SCE.exe' file from Sourceforge, I recommend that you re-download the 'SCE.zip' file instead. The zip file contains the original executable without any data injected by the…


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General Chess Discussion - Beginner friendly chess engine#22

This is the console window you are getting, which awaits UCI commands. That's what you get by running any UCI-compatible chess engine, including Stockfish for example. In order to get the board view y…


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