Chess program BBChess

BBChess is a computer chess engine by Borko Bošković. BBChess version 0.99 had a rating of 2200.

Technical details

The program is written in ANSI C programming language with glib library and has the following implemented concepts:

• Game representation
• Bitboard
• Zobrist keys
• Move representation
• Move generator
• Search algorithms
• Transposition Table
• History Heuristic
• Evaluation function
• Collecting the Principal Variations
• Universal Chess Interface
• Parameters Tuning
• Architecture of Chess Program

Events

• Researches in Europe 2006

Program

• 2.0: in development and accessible: svn co https://labraj.uni-mb.si/svn/chess/trunk bbchess,
  • you are invited to join this project (for authorisation contact borko.boskovic@uni-mb.si),
• 0.99b: Windows, Linux, Linux 64, programska koda (12.10.2006)
  • Fifty moves rule bug fixed

• 0.99: Windows, Linux, Linux 64, source (30.09.2006)

You can play against our chess program here.

Installation

Download and extract zip file in specific folder. In graphical user interface choose file bbchess.exe (bbchess). Then select engine BBChess as an active engine.

Test results

• EPD test 03.08.2005

Links

• superchessengine.com
• Regensburg Winboard Circuit
• Le Fou numérique
• Arena
• Jose
• Computer chess
• A short history of computer chess
• Programming Topics
• Chess Programming
• DarkThought
• Computer Chess Programming Theory
• Strategy and board game programming
• Hydra

Bibliography

B. Bošković, S. Greiner, J. Brest, V. Žumer. A differential evolution for the tuning of a chess evaluation function. 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2006, pp. 6742-6747.

B. Bošković, J. Brest, V. Žumer. Objektno orientirano načrtovanje in implementacija računalniškega šaha. Elektroteh. vestn., 2006, vol. 1, no. 73, pp. 31-37.

B. Bošković, S. Greiner, J. Brest, V. Žumer. Adaptivni algoritem diferencialne evolucije za uglaševanje parametrov ocenitve funkcije računalniškega šaha. Zbornik petnajste mednarodne Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK, 2006, pp. 83-86.

B. Bošković, S. Greiner, J. Brest, V. Žumer. The representation of chess game. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, 2005, pp. 381-386.

B. Bošković, S. Greiner, J. Brest, V. Žumer. Učenje računalniškega šaha z uporabo algoritma diferencialne evolucije. Zbornik štirinajste mednarodne Elektrotehniške in računalniške konference ERK, 2005, pp. 71-74.

B. Bošković. Analiza algoritma za igranje šaha. Univerza v Mariboru, Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko, 2005, pp. 1-23.

B. Bošković. Implementacija računalniškega šaha: diplomska naloga univerzitetnega študijskega programa. Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko, 2004.