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title: Sinobyl
Sinobyl,
initially called Latista and in 2008 renamed to Sinobyl due to trademark issues [1], is a WinBoard compliant chess engine by Eric Oldre, written in C++, and first released in 2004 [2]. Sinobyl, aka Latista 1.4, was one of the first engines besides Scorpio and Gambit Fruit, to use Daniel Shawul's Scorpio Bitbases. Sinobyl was later ported to C#, with rotated bitboards replaced by magics [3], released in 2014 as NoraGrace, dedicated to Nora Grace Oldre who was taken from Eric and his wife unexpectedly a few days before she was due to be born [4].
Board Representation
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To avoid standing pat in quiescence where pieces of the side to move were just attacked and en prise, Eric Oldre introduced Horizon Threat Extensions in Latista 1.4 [6].
Evaluation
See also
Forum Posts
- Bitboard board representation by Eric Oldre, CCC, January 13, 2005
- An interesting bug i found tonight in latista by Eric Oldre, CCC, January 16, 2005
- Idea i'm been using to help tune latista by Eric Oldre, CCC, January 24, 2005
- Latista 1.3 released by Eric Oldre, CCC, July 02, 2005
- Latista 1.4 released. (Rybka killer edition!) by Eric Oldre, CCC, December 23, 2005
- Latista 1.5 by Eric Oldre, CCC, January 13, 2006
- Re: new/updated engines: 2008/11/28-29 by Eric Oldre, Winboard Forum, December 01, 2008
- New open source engine in C# - NoraGrace by Eric Oldre, CCC, June 20, 2014
External Links
Chess Engine
- Index of /chess/engines/Norbert's Collection/Sinobyl 1.5 release 29.11.2008 by Norbert Raimund Leisner, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
- Latista (Sinobyl) 1.5 in CCRL 40/4
- Latista (Sinobyl) 1.5 in KCEC
- trunk/Sinobyl | SVN | Assembla (NoraGrace)
Misc
- Sino- - Wiktionary
- Wordlist sinobyl... | Welsh Prose 1300-1425
- Chernobyl - Name origin | byllia (Π±ΠΈΠ»Π»Ρ, grass blades or stalks)
References
- β Re: new/updated engines: 2008/11/28-29 by Eric Oldre, Winboard Forum, December 01, 2008
- β Latista from WBEC Ridderkerk
- β trunk/Sinobyl | SVN | Assembla
- β New open source engine in C# - NoraGrace by Eric Oldre, CCC, June 20, 2014
- β Latista 1.5 by Eric Oldre, CCC, January 13, 2006
- β Latista 1.4 released. (Rybka killer edition!) by Eric Oldre, CCC, December 23, 2005