Phalanx has 4 new freechess.org accounts, it only had pikozrout and rusalka before.
The current set of accounts and their setup is:
pikozrout - 8000 NPS (nodes per second)
konozrout - 2000 NPS
kamenozrout - 500 NPS
hastrman - easy level 20
hejkal - easy level 50
rusalka - easy level 80
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61817
[Site "GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org\61st Amateur D4.e1e"]
[Date "11-12-2016"]
[White "Phalanx XXV "]
[Black "Arminius 2015-08-06 "]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "4025:000 "]
The Gambit Festival is an engine-engine tournament organized by Ed Schröder. The engines play from 20 carefuly selected gambit lines by Jeroen Noomen. Some wild games ahead, just have a look at the lines, these have been disclosed today on the website ... The games can be watched online at
Phalanx XXV is now playing the CCLR 40/40 gauntlet.
The games can be watched live move by move, using Tom's live chess viewer:
http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/client.zip
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16075
XXV has several search improvements and static eval bugfixes. Special thanks go to Fabrice Lecouvey, who studied the static evaluation and caught and reported several well-hidden bugs.
Both source code package and Win32 build is now available in the Files section.
The old Phalanx computer accounts on freechess.org (FICS) have been resurrected.
Account rusalka plays on a very easy level (-e 80) and the blitz rating is around 1000. http://www.ficsgames.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?player=rusalka&action=Finger
Account pikozrout was originally a full strength one, but now I've decided to limit the nodes per seconds to 10000, so that it's strong enough, but still can be beaten by humans in blitz. Also see http://www.ficsgames.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?player=pikozrout&action=Finger
The new version played 272 games against various opponents and the 40/40 rating is 2540 (+179 points to the current rating of version XXIII)
Version XXIV is now playing the CCLR 40/40 gauntlet.
The games can be watched live move by move, using Tom's live chess viewer:
http://home.pacific.net.au/~tommyinoz/client.zip
Host - GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org Port - 16073
CEGT: XXIV played 1000 games with 10 engines and the current 40/4 rating is 2370 (+139 to XXIII 2231)
http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/40_4_Ratinglist/40_4_AllVersion/1050.html
CCRL: XXIV played 509 games with 16 opponent engines and the current 40/4 rating is 2601 (+166 to XXIII 2435)
http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Phalanx%20XXIV#Phalanx_XXIV... read more
Here is a few weeks old article published on the chess.com forums by a chess.com user nicknamed EscherehcsE. The article discusses the new easy levels as introduced in Phalanx XXIII and even suggests creating stronger non-blundering easy levels using combinations of values of the new commandline options -z (randomization) and -n (nodes per second limit).
Jim Ablett graciously made a windows version of Phalanx-XXII. The package contains both a Windows executable and the modified sources to be build with MS Visual C++.
He also reports that his version is competing in Olivier Deville's Chesswar on Category C: http://loirechecs.chez-alice.fr/chesswar
If you use Windows, go grab your copy of Phalanx now: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phalanx
Of course, the old Unix only release is still available. I haven't yet tested Jim Ablett's build on Linux or BSD, stay tuned for that.