After a VERY long absence from server play, the rewrite of my chess engine Prophet is finally far enough along to play some games online. The engine itself has been capable of play for a little while now, but I’ve establishing a testing routine and wanted to get an opening book.

Previous versions of Prophet had a custom book format, using fseek() and the like on a binary file. I may go back to that at some point but right now Prophet 3 uses SQLite to query the book built for chess4j.

Anyway, the engine has been online ICC most of the day:

67: + 1632 W 1469 brittabeast [ br 5 3] D11 Res Nov 30 16 15:29
66: + 1622 B 1479 brittabeast [ br 5 3] B03 Mat Nov 30 16 15:23
65: + 1611 W 1466 ituchesstech [ br 5 3] D08 Mat Nov 30 16 15:13
64: + 1600 B 1533 Knipshun [ br 5 3] A00 Res Nov 30 16 14:56
63: + 1586 W 1547 Knipshun [ br 5 3] C00 Res Nov 30 16 14:53
62: + 1570 B 1563 Knipshun [ br 5 3] A00 Res Nov 30 16 14:49
61: + 1553 W 1092 Darkpower [ br 5 3] A04 Res Nov 30 16 14:42
60: + 1551 B 1094 Darkpower [ br 5 3] B00 Res Nov 30 16 14:37
59: + 1549 W 1096 Darkpower [ br 5 3] D35 Res Nov 30 16 14:33
58: + 1547 B 1098 Darkpower [ br 5 3] B02 Res Nov 30 16 14:29
57: + 1545 W 1100 Darkpower [ br 5 3] C41 Res Nov 30 16 14:23
56: + 1543 B 1102 Darkpower [ br 5 3] B07 Res Nov 30 16 14:16
55: + 1541 W 1104 Darkpower [ br 5 3] D31 Res Nov 30 16 14:14
54: + 1539 B 1106 Darkpower [ br 5 3] B06 Res Nov 30 16 14:04
53: + 1537 W 1108 Darkpower [ br 5 3] D37 Res Nov 30 16 13:59
52: + 1534 B 1111 Darkpower [ br 5 3] B01 Res Nov 30 16 13:53
51: + 1531 B 1520 zalk [ br 5 3] A00 Res Nov 30 16 13:50
50: + 1514 W 1537 zalk [ br 5 3] B06 Res Nov 30 16 13:45
49: + 1495 W 1233 TT [ br 5 3] A04 Fla Nov 30 16 13:33
48: + 1695 B 1431 amr [ Br 2 1] B00 Mat Nov 30 16 13:28

20/20 isn’t too bad! Granted, it helps that it was vastly underrated, but still…what fun 🙂