Mediocre
Mediocre, (Mediocre Chess)
an UCI compliant chess engine by Jonatan Pettersson, written entirely in Java. Mediocre is the result of a chess programming blog, which describes aspects of the engine in detail 1. Mediocre played the WCRCC 2007 and gained 7½ out of 14.
Contents
Features
Board Representation
Search
- Iterative Deepening
- Fractional Plies
- Aspiration Windows
- Principal Variation Search
- Transposition Table
- Selectivity
- Move Ordering
Evaluation
- Evaluation Hash Table
- Tapered Eval
- Piece-Square Tables
- Pawn Structure
- Pawn Hash Table
- King Tropism
- Rook on Seventh
- Knight Outposts
- Hanging Pieces
Misc
Forum Posts
2007 ...
- Mediocre 0.31 : 2127 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, April 07, 2007
- Mediocre 0.32 : 2146 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, May 01, 2007
- Mediocre 0.33 : 2184 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, May 18, 2007
- Mediocre has a new home by Jonatan Pettersson, CCC, December 09, 2008
- Mediocre 0.334 : 2126 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, December 25, 2008
- Mediocre 0.34 : 2191 by Patrick Buchmann, CCC, January 24, 2009
2010 ...
- Blog back on track (Mediocre engine) by Jonatan Pettersson, CCC, October 07, 2011
- Mediocre v0.4 released by Jonatan Pettersson, CCC, November 26, 2011
- Mediocre Chess 0.4 for Fritzy (and not only) ! by Sylwy, CCC, November 29, 2011
- The progress of Mediocre Chess (of Mr.Jonatan Pettersson) by Sylwy, CCC, December 09, 2011
- Mediocre v0.5 released by Jonatan Pettersson, CCC, July 30, 2012
- Mediocre 0.5 EXE? by Steve Maughan, CCC, September 06, 2013
External Links
Chess Engine
- Mediocre Chess Blog
- Mediocre on Souceforge
- Mediocre website
- Index of /chess/engines/Jim Ablett/Mediocre Chess by Jim Ablett, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
- Mediocre in CCRL 40/15
Misc
- mediocre - Wiktionary
- Chick Corea and Friends - Mediocre, Remembering Bud Powell (1997), YouTube Video
feat.: Wallace Roney, Joshua Redman, Christian McBride and Roy Haynes
References
Features based on readme.txt of Mediocre v0.5↩︎