Their name comes from two words, Dana of Daniela and Sah that it means chess in Romanian.

Thank you to Miguel Izquierdo (Popochin) with whom I interchange email and for his advice on programming and all the organizers and participants in computer chess.

Pedro Castro (pecastro@msn.com)

Basque Country.  Spain.

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To run DanaSah you will need to make first in GUI:

• Unde Winboard: in file winboard.ini -> /firstChessProgramNames={DanaSahxxx   "danasahXXX_WB.exe xboard"
• Under ARENA: Engines -> New Engine -> Winboard -> danasahXXX_WB.exe
• Under ChessPartner: Extra -> Engine Import Wizard -> Winboard engines -> Install  -> danasahXXX_WB.exe
• Under Chessmaster: Game -> Import Winboard Engine -> danasahXXX_WB.exe
• Under Chessbase: Engine -> New UCI engine -> Browse -> danasahXXX_UCI.exe

Files:

• danasahXXX_WB.exe --> exe for Arena, Winboard ... (winboard protocol).
• danasahXXX_UCI.exe --> exe for gui Fritz and other uci (wb2uci).
• danasah.ini -- > configuration file for danasah (winboard & uci).
• Wb2Uci.eng --> configuration file for uci protocol.
• mainbook.bin --> the big mainbook.
• tourbook.bin --> Selection of favoured opening lines called the Tournament Book.
• random1.bin --> necessary for the operation of the book.
• random2.bin --> necessary for the operation of the book.
• danasahXXX_WB.jpg --> logo Jim Ablett for Arena.
• danasahXXX_UCI.bmp --> Logo by Jim Ablett for Fritz.
• euskadi.gif --> flag for Basque Country.

Features:

• Opening book of Prodeo/Rebel. Thanks to Ed Shröeder and Jeroen Noomen.
• Bitbases of Scorpio. Thanks to Daniel Shawul.
• Board representation: array of 64, it is based on Firstchess (Pham Hong Nguyen).
• Aspiration search, window 15 and 150.
• PVS search and quiescent. Thanks to Bruce Moreland for his Web page.
• Transposition tables. Thanks to Miguel Izquierdo (Popochin).
• Adaptive Null move prunning, R = 2-5.
• (Internal) Iterative Deepening.
• Search extensions (check, pawn in seventh, recapture, endgame of pawns).
• Late move reduction.
• Razoring.
• Edit mode (setboard), Move now, Ponder and Analyze.
• Move ordering (hash, followpv, captures, promotion, killer moves, heuristic history).
• Eval with lazy eval and evaluation cache. Eval of material, piece-square tables, pawns structure, open files, mobility, king safety ...

 

Todo:

•  SEE (Static Exchange Evaluator).
•  Resign.
•  Learn.