Re: Visual C

[Simon Waters]

> address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm download 5.02 version of chess and can't find information about
> what is new in current release?

Between 4 and 5 the code base was replaced.

Between 5.00 and 5.02 the opening book code was substantially changed.

The evaluation function had some values tuned and some incorrect code
removed, plus some minor tweaks.

Some corrections to the tree handling were also submitted.

I'm afraid at the moment beyond this you'd have to try diff.

> In some earlier version I'm was make all modifications needed for
> compilation in VC 6.0
> If there is somebody interested in this, please let me know.
> I'm ask you for permission to make and public modified code.

We have had a number of enquiries on how to build with VC. So people are
definitely interested. My understanding is that the optimisations done
by VC are better than GCC - although of course only for x86.
 
The code is distributed under the GPL - so your welcome to modify it.

Stuart Cracraft collects and merges modifications to the source.
Probably best to get the latest copy of the sources from Stuart if the
modifications are spread all over the code.

> Main changes are _int64 type instead long long int and changed << and
> >> bitvise operaors
> Some modifications are needed in enum Square (VC has its own idea
> about A1 as function parameter)
> 
> I will try o make compiler dependant code.

Good luck with the changes,

        Simon
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