Delfi

This article is about a chess engine. For a web portal in Baltic States, see Delfi (web portal).

Delfi is a Winboard/UCI chess engine written in Pascal designed by Italian chess programmer Fabio Cavicchio. It is designed to emulate a human playing style and is rated 2627 on the CEGT . The latest released version is 5.4. Source code for version 5.1 is available.

Technical details

From its release page, Delfi does not use bitboards like Crafty, but uses 16 x 16 array of bytes for board presentation. It uses capture history heuristic & smart thinking time allocation, from 50% to 400% of the average time. When some moves seem equal in its evaluation, it makes random moves.

See also

• Chess engine
• Computer chess
• World Computer Speed Chess Championship

External links

• http://www.msbsoftware.it/delfi/
• http://www.msbsoftware.it/delfi/delfirel.htm
• http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details/Delfi.html