Wasp chess engine
Wasp chess engine by John Stanback , author of Zarkovn. Wasp UCi is approx 400 elo stronger than the best version of Zarkov and plays " human like " chess ... test review so far ... June 21st, 2016: After 50% of my test-run ...
It's absolutely clear: Wasp 1.01 x64 is very strong in endgames without using endgame databases. The playing style is great because all is totally "human like". Not easy to beat the engine after opening book moves. Sometimes very danger after opening book moves. Weak point is the late middlegame / transition into endgame. Same weak points humans have if we compared with the strongest available chess programs today. Often in endgames Wasp have problems with draw detection (can be see in eval). So I have at first good material / ideas for my beta test. Elo is very stable with ~ 2730 - 2740. now After 1.225 games no "lost on time" or other technically problems. In my humble opinion the perfect program for self-playing and much more important ... no other engine have such a style!! d/l ... beta test version ...
Download Link: http://www.amateurschach.de/download/wasp_101-x64.zip