This is the website for the Phalanx chess engine. It was created by a young Czech student, Dusan Dobes, but he vanished from the Internet around the year 2000. Luckily, he released Phalanx under the GPL license, so his work won't be forgotten; on the contrary, I hope that the community will help improve it and make it a worthy opponent to other chess engines.
Phalanx's playing style is quite human-like; when it plays at full strength, it may be compared to a intermediate-to-strong club player; beginners will be right at home with it, too.
I made some very little changes on Dobes's latest version of Phalanx so it could compile and run on any modern GNU/Linux system. The GCC compiler is required, as it uses some of its extensions. I plan to change that.
You can download, report bugs, and discuss Phalanx on the Project page, or make any requests to me directly, espinafre at users dot sourceforge dot net.
2006-02-15 22:13 GMT -3:00 Windows version has a problem with Arena: phalanx seems to hang after the book moves. Currently known workaround is to pass the option '-o -' to Phalanx's command line. Thanks to Dario Zucco for reporting this!