Ktulu (28 December 2003)

Free chess program Copyright (C) 2002-2003 by Rahman Paidar.
No part of this program may be sold or reproduced for earning purposes in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the author. 
Warning : Any commercial use of this program, copying or distributing is prohibited .

About the Hash Tables:

Before setting up the hash tables, I should emphasize that HASH table is of more important than PAWNHASH or EVALHASH tables. For setting up the hash tables you should follow one of two following schemes:

      (Assuming 128 MB maximum  is allowed, for 64 MB divide the numbers by 2)
      HASH 64
      PAWNHASH 48
      EVALHASH   12      

      (Assuming 128 MB maximum  is allowed plus 8 MB as an extra, for 64 MB divide the numbers by 2)
      HASH 128
      PAWNHASH 6
      EVALHASH   2

Note: The latter setting is preferable.
After each setting, run the exe file and verify the amount of RAM taken as hash tables. If the differences are more than 4MB, something is WRONG.      

Note 1: For adjusting the strength of the program, change in option.txt STRENGTH parameter. It is measured in percent.
For example STRENGTH 50, means that Ktulu uses 50% of its positional knowledge.

Note 2: For those analyses that needs finding the best move in shortest time, please enable ANALYSE MODE. For tournaments
and all other cases, disable it.

Acknowledgement: 
    Special thanks to Wilhelm Hudetz  for creating the Logo,
   Slobodan R. Stojanovic and Jan Kiwitter : for testing the program.        

    I'd like to offer my thanks to :

     Tim Mann,
     Prof. Robert Hyatt,
     Leo Dijksman
    
For updating the engine, visit: 
http://rahman85.tripod.com/rahman.html        

Email me        

Any comment or bug report are welcome.
Amirkabir university of Tehran.