SF-McBrain 3.0 Release Delayed

[MikeB]

Current time management is not suitable for my tastes, working on a simple fix for now until Stockfish team decides to fix it the right away.

Also rebasing to current SF, release will be a delayed few days - will shoot for next weekend.

The match below has the current stockfish versus current stockfish with the time management fix using the magic 63 opening positions hand selected from Kai's openings.

time control 30 seconds with 0.5 second increment.

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126 rounds and 126 games completed...
time control: 30+.50 seconds
Date: 10/14/17 : 19:02:03
126 game(s) loaded
Rank Name                      Rating   Δ     +    -     #     Σ    Σ%     W    L    D   W%    =%   OppR 
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   1 Stockfish Time  64 POPCN   3107   0.0   12   12   126   66.0  52.4   17   11   98  13.5  77.8  3093 
   2 Stockfish 141017 64 POPC   3093  14.5   12   12   126   60.0  47.6   11   17   98   8.7  77.8  3107 
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  Σ = total score, 1 point for win, 1/2 point for draw

Even with just 126 games, I received an 87% confidence level that this is better:

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ResultSet-EloRating>los
                          St St
Stockfish Time  64 POPCN     87
Stockfish 141017 64 POPC  12  

Give the fact that the fix results in more conservative usage of time, I'm perfectly fine with it without further testing. Key word is simple.