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 5.1 which includes the source code.

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[edit] Technical Details

From its release page, Delfi does not use bitboards like Crafty, 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.

[edit] Achievements

Delfi is Italian Computer Chess Champion 2006

[edit] 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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