Chess Engine Roque	Español

What is Roque?

Roque is a chess engine based on the xboard protocol.

Technical features:

• Xboard protocol based.
• Board representation: array of 64 integers.
• Move generation: simple, based on board of 8x8 and with move shorting by MVV/LVA technique. 
• Search function: Alfa-Beta algorithm based with Principal Variation Search (PVS).
• Evaluation function: quiescence search based with material and position of pawns, knights and bishop evaluation. 
• End of game detection.
• Game modes: time control (conventional and incremental) and fixed depth.
• Edit command.
• Programming language: C

Engine: Roque			Author: F. Javier Salido Gómez, Spain
	Move Now	Edit Mode	Analyze Mode	Opening Book	Create book	Ponder On/Off	Hash Tables	Table Bases
v.1.1	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Draw claim	Resign	Force and go	Program language	Source available	Learn	XBoard	UCI	Frist release
Yes	No	Yes	C	No	No	Yes	No	04/02/2006

Downloads

Roque 1.1 (08/02/2006). Windows version.

An error in the detection of the end of game by triple repetition and in the 50 moves rule has been corrected. In addition, by technical reasons, the aspiration window has been eliminated.

• Download engine only (19 KB).
• Download engine and Winboard interface in spanish (500 KB) (recommended).

Roque 1.0 (04/02/2006). Windows version.

• Download engine only (19 KB).