After several days of intensive testing I decided to finish the testing of this version of Armageddon, and to fully devote myself to developing a new version!

Final test results are encouraging but also I need to have in mind the disastrous results against Rybka and Houdini, but also the bad result ...

Armegeddon 1.0 tests:

I decided to test Armageddon against new version of Deep Rybka 4.1

Test conditions:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7300
Time: 4'+2". Hash 128. Ponder off. GUI Fritz 12. Tablebases 5 pieces NO Robbo TripleBases. book: Rybka 4.

Armageddon 1.0 vs Deep Rybka 4.1 44:56 (+19 -31 =50)
U can ...

Uly wrote:Firegeddon would seem like a compromise.

Uly genial idea as usual

just keep them going guys maybe I choose one

Matthias Gemuh wrote:

BB+ wrote:

Firebird and Firefly are of course bad choices.

FireBrat? FireFish?

RobboFire, FireRobbo

Thanks guys for the names but I will stick to this one for now

Second its based on Fire because I love that engine and I think there is a potential that can be used to create interesting and strong engine!
http://www.chess2u.com/t1504-armageddon-10-based-on-fire-131#8227
why you love Fire ? it's a weak, or maybe you are Kranium with another name ? ;)

First ...

I will probably do that in next version of my program for now it's Armageddon , and I still believe that old Armageddon was inactive for a long period of time so I can use that name.
I will also try to contact author of old Armageddon and hear his opinion about this subject!

After short time of testing I'm decided to release my first chess engine Armageddon 1.0! Armageddon 1.0 is is free for non-commercial use based on Fire 1.31, and it can be downloaded, installed and freely used for playing chess and analysing chess games.
I changed several things in this version in ...

After short time of testing I'm decided to release my first chess engine Armageddon 1.0! Armageddon 1.0 is is free for non-commercial use based on Fire 1.31, and it can be downloaded, installed and freely used for playing chess and analysing chess games.
I changed several things in this version in ...