./games/knightcap, Chess engine with 3D OpenGL-rendered chessboard

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 3.6nb9, Package name: knightcap-3.6nb9, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

KnightCap is a chess program written for the Fujitsu AP1000+ parallel
computer (running AP/Linux).

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.

KnightCap now beats gnuchess consistently and is within "coo-ee" of
crafty, although I think it needs deeper search or some more dramatic
selective search to be truly competitive with the best micro
programs.


Required to run:
[graphics/MesaLib] [graphics/freeglut] [graphics/glu]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/x11-links] [x11/xcb-proto] [x11/fixesproto4] [pkgtools/cwrappers] [x11/xorgproto]

Master sites:

Filesize: 154.241 KB

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   2023-07-10 00:09:29 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
knightcap: Avoid potentially incompatible declarations of libc/libm functions
   2022-08-11 07:09:36 by David H. Gutteridge | Files touched by this commit (999) 
Log message:
Bump all dependent packages of wayland (belatedly)

The package changed with the addition of its libepoll-shim dependency.
Otherwise, we can get:
ERROR: libepoll-shim>=0.0.20210418 is not installed; can't buildlink files.
   2021-12-08 17:07:18 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3063) 
Log message:
revbump for icu and libffi
   2021-10-26 12:44:37 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (466) 
Log message:
games: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
   2021-10-07 16:08:04 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (466) 
Log message:
games: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2021-04-21 17:37:12 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
*: remove dead download sites
   2020-03-08 17:51:54 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2833) 
Log message:
*: recursive bump for libffi
   2020-02-18 17:50:43 by Joerg Sonnenberger | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
Fix dependencies exposed by recent Mesa changes.