Sam Trenholme wrote on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 04:37 PM UTC:
I have been playing around with Joker80 and the corresponding Winboard program; I am very pleased with Joker80's performance. In my initial testing, the only program I could get to beat Joker80 was Smirf, and I needed to give Smirf over a minute to make a move while making Joker80 make all of its moves in under 5 minutes.
Joker80 soundly defeated ChessV 0.9.3 and Zillions of Games, even with a time handicap in both cases.
Anyway, some issues:
I can't set up a custom opening setup in Winboard, save the opening setup, and have Winboard read the setup without complaining the file is unreadable
It would be nice if Joker80 had support for the 'free' castling used by Grotesque and Univers Chess (not to mention my own humble contribution to 10x8 chess, Schoolbook)
Joker80 soundly defeated ChessV 0.9.3 and Zillions of Games, even with a time handicap in both cases.
Anyway, some issues: