Amifish_MorphOS 2.2

Chess program UCI compatible

Short:        Chess program UCI compatible
Author:       Domenico Lattanzi
Uploader:     domenico lattanzi mailfence com
Type:         game/board
Version:      2.2
Replaces:     game/board/Amifish_MorphOS.lha
Architecture: ppc-morphos
Distribution: Aminet

Amifish is a chess program made to play chess with the Amiga-like systems,
exploiting the power of one of the most powerful chess engines of the world:
Stockfish, developed by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski and Gary
Linscott. A chess engine is a console program who play chess, receiving
strings as commands and producing strings in output as result of computation.
Stockfish and much others engines are compatible with a standard named UCI
(Universal Chess Interface). The name Amifish is obtained by joining the words
'Amiga' and 'Stockfish' (although, however, the project is open to all engines
compliant with the UCI standard), is a light program for amateurs, is made to
have fun with chess, with only the most important options implemented. 

To play against the computer, a chess engine is needed, to be downloaded from
another location.

Features:
- UCI chess engines support
- Ask hint from computer
- Show played opening's name
- Draw cases automatically detected
- Resign option for both human and computer
- Start from a specific position if needed
- Engines who exploits Polyglot opening books (BIN format) are supported 
- Set computer's strenght by choosing between time per move, fixed depth or
difficulty level
- Loading / saving games in PGN format, supporting multiple games into files
- Engine's output expressive, showing which color is in advantage, the nodes
computed per second and the main line
- Engines who exploits Tablebases (Gaviota and Syzygy) are supported 
- Multithreaded engines are supported
- Customisable graphics and sounds

Amifish is released as freeware and can be distributed in every non-commercial
form.