Playing Philidor, last DOS version

[Fernando]

In the package Chess-Dos-VM collection there are, between many other chess programs, two versions of Philidor. I have played several times the last of them at the rhythm of 30 moves per hour and I have the impression of being a very curious game because from time to time he plays great positional moves you do not expect from a program dated in 1982 or something, but also from time to time play absolutely vacuous moves proper of Boris or Chess challenger 3. I mean, moves like putting a piece in a square without reason, then coming back to the original square and then, again, to the unuseful square, and all this at the same time you are obviously preparing an attack on his king. It looks to me like a program that was not finished, that was left half-tested or half-checked.
Which is your impression?

Fern

[mclane]

Philidor is a B Strategy program.
Its the PC version of Scisys MKV and MKVI by David Broughton.

There is the possibility to increase the aggression faktor.
But i dont know if it changes much.

Jeff Rollason said to me that Philidor uses “interest search”.

http://aifactory.co.uk/newsletter/2014_ ... inimax.htm

He said he helped David in the development.
They met on tournaments and computerchess events in UK.