Shashchess is a Stockfish derivative that implements the theory of Alexander Shashin detailed in his book ― “Best Play: A New Method for Discovering the Strongest Move.” (Best Play: A New Method For Discovering The Strongest Move: Shashin, Alexander: 9781936277469: Amazon.com: Books)
Testing shows Shashchess draws with Stockfish in head to head engine matches, but significantly outperforms Stockfish in puzzle solving and mate-finding.
Its author created it for Correspondence Chess, and I can attest that it is an interesting and powerful analysis tool. Now in version 16 it is also well-honed.
looking strong long game can you tell me the engine setting? book move false or true? default its false
I use all the default settings.
shash 17 released check it
shash setting ;thread put equel number your system core and tal and calpanica true
“Tal” means the search for the strongest chess move when attacking.
“Capablanca” means searching for the strongest move in strategic play.
“Petrosian” covers the search for the strongest move in defense.
Together, the three algorithms (T, C, and P) encompass the whole,
undivided spectrum of all chess attacks and defenses.
This is a great idea, although there would have to be more effort put in to impliment this.
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I know this is a bump, but I strongly want to throw my support behind this.
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Done! Sorry for the delay. I’ve added the 4 most recent versions of ShashChess: 21.1, 21, 20.1, 20.
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When using Shashcess engine, after couple of moves, it keeps saying “installing engine” . Kindly check the same.
Yes – that’s actually expected. I just recently added ShashChess version 22, so a lot of the back-end servers don’t have that version installed yet. So when you see “installing engine” it just means that the engine isn’t installed on whatever backend server your request landed on, and that the server is downloading it. Eventually all servers will have the engine and you won’t see the message / incur the delay anymore.
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