Pos 1.9 review

Pos is an experimental chess program based not on the Shannon algorithm, but on several others

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 35K Developer: Folkert van Heusden

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Pos is an experimental chess program based not on the Shannon algorithm, but on several others. Pos is not a brute force system.

The algorithm used is determined by a genetic (evolutionary) algorithm.

How to run it?

In a terminal

When using the SUN Java 5.0 runtime environment, start it with "java -Xmx384M -jar pos.jar".

Xboard/WinBoard

The program should now fully support xboard/winboard. Start it with commandline "java -Xmx384M -jar pos.jar --io-mode xboard".

For example: xboard -firstChessProgram "java -Xmx384M -jar pos.jar --io-mode xboard"

Requirements:
Java 1.5

What's New in This Release:
added PGN-output (--pgnfile), less popups (hopefully), algorithm improvements