Chess program BBChess

BBChess is a computer chess engine by Borko Bošković. BBChess version 1.1 has a rating over 2300 ELO points.

BBchess is Free Open Source Software and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Technical details

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

• Representation of Chess Game
• Chess Search Algorithms
• Chess Evaluation Function
• Architecture of Chess Program
• Tuning of a Chess Evaluation Function
• Opening book
• End game database
• Graphical User Interface

Rating

• CCRL ratings 2496 (1.1)
• superchessengine.com 2297 (1.01)
• Regensburg Winboard Circuit 2339 (1.1)
• Le Fou numérique 2347 (1.1)
• Free Internet Chess Server 2412 (1.11)
• EPD library 2344 (1.1)

Tournaments

• OpenWar 2nd Edition
• ChessWar X
• Minime
• Cadet
• RWBC Rapid Rating Tourneys

Games

• BBChess 1.11 64 bit 2289 - Deep Shredder 10 64Bit 2509 1-0 C91 ICS rated blitz match (freechess.org) 07.05.2007
• Deep Shredder 10 64Bit 2497 - BBChess 1.11 64 bit 2307 0-1 C96 ICS rated blitz match (freechess.org) 07.05.2007
• BBChess1.10 games (CCRL 40/40)

Events

• Dan inovacij in tehnologije 2007
• Institutes and laboratories fair
• Hevreka!06
• 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)

• 1.1 (05.03.2007):
  • Linux 64-bit ( tar.bz, RPM)
  • Linux 32-bit ( tar.bz, RPM)
  • Win32 (dll)
  • Programski kod

• Older versions

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 22.02.2007
• EPD test 29.01.2007
• EPD test 14.12.2006
• EPD test 03.08.2005

Links

superchessengine.com Regensburg Winboard Circuit Le Fou numérique ChessWar Arena Jose Computer chess

A short history of computer chess DarkThought Computer Chess Programming Theory Strategy and board game programming Hydra Chessbase Chess engines

Programming Topics Chess Programming REBEL freechess.org Scorpio Rybka WBEC Ridderkerk

Mizar

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, J. Brest. Računalniški šah. Abakus, 2006, pp. 18.

B. Bošković, S. Greiner, J. Brest, V. Žumer. The Representation of Chees Ggame. 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.