Guys,

I've never been far from you. I've been reading every comment and all your shares all the time.

Indeed i'm late recovering from the hiatus of the blog. But note that i'll be coming back very soon. I'm alive and kicking!

Keep up following.

The return will be good enough for you to forgive the long lasting silence.

Best wishes to all.

Android UCI engine update: armFish 2018.02.11 to 2018.02.19

ArmFish is a project based on the assembly code to achieve the highest speed with Stockfish engine. A lot of updates have rained during February, so frequently that i thought it would be easier to share them all together, in a single post.

ArmFish and MateFish are provided side by side, bearing in mind that MateFish is a specific version of ArmFish, dedicated to find mating attacks quicker rather than breaking ELO records.

GET armFish 2018.02.11.LA for arm8
GET armFish 2018.02.11.CP for arm8
GET mateFish 2018.02.11.LA for arm8
GET mateFish 2018.02.11.CP for arm8

GET armFish 2018.02.13 for arm8
GET mateFish 2018.02.13 for arm8

GET armFish 2018.02.14 for arm8
GET mateFish 2018.02.14 for arm8
GET armFish 2018.02.15 for arm8
GET mateFish 2018.02.15 for arm8

GET armFish 2018.02.19 for arm8
GET mateFish 2018.02.19 for arm8

In case of trouble dowloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: CT800 1.20

CT800 is an average level engine released by Ratmus Althoff who recently concentrated on compiling for Android and finally managed to obtain working binaries.

CT800, in fact, was born as a dedicated chess computer idea and it was designed by Rasmus Althoff.  The original CT800 featured an ARM Cortex M4 microcontroller of an Olimex H405 board that operates up to 168 Mhz, with 1 MB of flash memory, 192+4 kB of SRAM, and multiple I/O and USB connectors, with a 4x20 character text display, two leds, and a 4x4 + 1 keypad as peripherals aka user interface. Voltage source is due to four NiMH rechargeable AA batteries or external 5 V DC power supply.

The "chess computer" CT800

CT800's firmware is developed by Rasmus Althoff, released under the GPL Version 3. The chess playing software is an ARM port of George Georgopoulos' open source engine NG-play including a KPK bitbase by Marcel van Kervinck.

GET CT800 1.20 for arm7 and arm8

Previous stable version was:
GET CT800 1.12 for arm7

Development versions from 1.12 to 1.20 were:
GET CT800 1.20p11 for arm7 and arm8
GET CT800 1.20p13 for arm7 and arm8
GET CT800 1.20p14 for arm7 and arm8
GET CT800 1.20p15 for arm7 and arm8

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Cheese 1.9.2

Another bugfix update by the author, Patrice Duhamel. No ELO change expected.

WHAT'S NEW (17-Feb-2018):
Version 1.9.2
- fix engine not responding in pondering mode since version 1.9
- fix illegal moves in pondering when the search ends before receiving message from the interface
- fix an error with Arena/UCI when pondering is enable, always return a move to ponder (if possible)
- fix a problem when starting next tournament game in Fritz GUI

GET Cheese 1.9.2 for arm7 and arm8

You can also visit CHEESE HOMEPAGE for more info.

Android UCI engine update: Cichess 2.0.2018021.ACH

For the followers of the Stockfish derivatives.

GET Cichess 2.0.20180216.ACH for arm7 and arm8

In case of trouble dowloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Cfish 2018.02.15

I fear that the day when SF and Cfish will get hourly updates that we will try to share in time. We would probably be dying of hunger because no time would be left to eat.

GET Cfish 9.0.2018.02.15.ACH for arm7 and arm8

In case of trouble downloading from PC, use your mobile or refer to THIS POST.

Android UCI engine update: Stockfish Matefinder 9.0.ACH

Matefinder is a Stockfish fork maintained by Joseph Ellis and dedicated to solve puzzles rather than hitting the highest possible ELO. Like many other derivatives, Matefinder is now updated to a new version based on Stockfish 9 code too. Enjoy!

Joseph Ellis

GET Stockfish Matefinder 9.0 for arm7 and arm8

In case of trouble downloading from your PC, use your mobile device or refer to THIS POST.