BSD Ports

games/KnightCap 3.6_9 DragonFly

Chess program with 3D interface for X Window System

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories
games
Package size
103.2 KiB, 242.1 KiB installed

Description

KnightCap is a chess program.

The principal differences between KnightCap and other chess programs are:

  • KnightCap has an optional fully rendered 3D interface, giving a feel much more like an "over the board" game.

  • KnightCap was developed to run on a parallel distributed memory machine, although it also runs on normal Unix boxes.

  • KnightCap does not have an opening book---instead it keeps a file (brain.dat) of losing moves and inserts them in the hash table at the start of each search. At present it has about 1500 entries, and this makes it a pretty competitive opening player.

  • KnightCap learns the parameters of its evaluation function as it plays. The most dramatic example of how this helps is an experiment we conducted on FICS in which KnightCap learnt from a 1650 player to a 2100 player in just 300 games. See http://cs.anu.edu.au/people/Lex.Weaver/pub_sem/publications/knightcap.pdf for more info on its learning algorithm.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlygames/KnightCap3.6_9
FreeBSDgames/KnightCap3.6_9
NetBSDgames/knightcap3.6nb9
HardenedBSDgames/KnightCap3.6_9
GhostBSDgames/KnightCap3.6_9

Install

Binary package:

pkg install knightcap

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/games/KnightCap && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 6

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The knightcap port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing