Personal Notes

pulsar chess program. operator and author Mike (mike adams)

running on Xboard on a mac mini 2015 model dual core though pulsar just uses one core

As of Janaury 2019 Pulsar is now on Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lantern.michaeladams.pulsarchessengine

we are also on ios for iPhone and iPad https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pulsar-chess-engine/id839640447?mt=8

the mobile apps have 8 difficulty levels before full strenght to choose from in the new game selector. variants offered by the mobile apps is Chess, Crazyhouse, Atomic, Loser's, Giveaway, and Three Checks

for mac linux and windows binaries see http://www.lanternchess.com/pulsar/

Additonally Pulsar is the built in engine for Lantern Chess an ICC Interface on both Android and iOS. Search Lantern Chess in App Store or Google Play Store to find it if interested. The Pulsar computer play option is available on each Apps board menu both on and offline.

Account first used: 11-Dec-1998, start of the pulsar chess engine. Development started maybe 6 weeks earlier after i purchased visual c/c++ 6.0 in maybe October 1998.

Our first online rating was in the 1500s. It was a challenge to get a basic engine online written from scratch. Thanks tol all the chess programers in channel 64 at the time willing to chat. Over time between 98-2009 the engine was written including knowledg of variants starting in 2002.

Server Ratings Details

Type Wild Rating 2159 Best 2294 (18/Mar/2003)
Type Blitz Rating 2449 Best 2641 (02/Jul/2009)
Type Standard Rating 2130 Best 2130 (01/Jul/2019)
Type Bullet Rating 2480 Best 2551 (18/Nov/2002)
Type Loser's Rating 1829 Best 1829 (27/Mar/2019)
Type Crazyhouse Rating 1756 Best

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