SlowChess 2.960
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Is based on SlowChess 2.96 by Jonathan Kreuzer: http://www.3dkingdoms.com/chess/slow.htm

Many thanks to Jonathan Kreuzer for sharing his wonderful engine and the clear and easy to understand source code.


Modifications:
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UCI_ELO feature: It is possible to set ELO values between 1200 and 2700. They are very good tuned compared to the old SSDF values which are supposed to be very close to the human values. Thousands of testgames where played against emulations of dedicated computers between ELO 1400 and 2400, please take also a look at Results.txt.  

Chess960: Chess960 should work as Winboard and as UCI engine under ChessGUI, Arena, Shredder and Fritz, as Winboard Engine under Winboard. Under ChessGUI chose the AHah_KxR option. As Winboard Engine you can set the hash size in megabytes from the command line: SlowChess2960.exe -H48. Supported values are 6, 12, 24(default), 48, 96, 192. Anything in between is set to the closest lower value.

The evaluation is exactly the same as the original version, and I am happy that I didn't slow it down, in fact the new version is even slightly faster because of a few simplifications.


Bugs
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SlowChess2.960 is completely bugfree. If something is going wrong it is your own fault or a it is a bug of the UI. Feel free to contact me if you want to prove me wrong.

Source Code
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I decided not to release the source code, this is fine with the original Copyright notice. If you want to see the sources or have questions about my changes feel free contact me.


Copyright
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You are allowed to distribute this program as freeware as long as the original files remain unchanged. Any commercial utilisation is not allowed without written permission of the authors. There is no warranty of any kind given or implied. The usage of Slowchess 2.960 is completely at your own risk. Please note also the Copyright notice of SlowChess 2.96.

(C) 2013 Alexander Schmidt
