Crafty 23.5 has been released

[Peter Skinner]

Hello everyone,

Crafty 23.5 has been released, and you can find Win64 builds as well as the source at http://www.kikrtech.com.

I will have 32 bit builds up shortly.

Peter

[LucenaTheLucid]

Hi Peter,

Maybe you can comment on improvements, changes, etc...? Thanks

[Peter Skinner]

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*    23.5   Several pieces of code cleanup, both for readability and speed.   *
 *           We are now using stdint.h, which lets us specific the exact size  *
 *           of an integer value which gets rid of the int vs long issues that *
 *           exist between MSVC and the rest of the world on X86_64.  We still *
 *           use things like "int" if we want to let the compiler choose the   *
 *           most efficient size, but when we need a specific number of bits,  *
 *           such as 64, we use a specific type (uint64_t for 64 bits).  Minor *
 *           change to forward pruning that does not toss out passed pawn      *
 *           moves if they are advanced enough (compared to remaining depth)   *
 *           that they might be worth searching.  Cleanup to passed pawn eval  *
 *           code to help efficiency and readability.  New options to the      *
 *           display command.  "display nothing" turns all output off except   *
 *           for the move Crafty chooses to play.  "display everything" will   *
 *           produce a veritable flood of information before it makes a move.  *
 *           Cleanup of personality code to fix some values that were not      *
 *           included, as well as clean up the formatting for simplicity.      *
 *                                                                             *
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[Graham Banks]

Hello everyone,

Crafty 23.5 has been released, and you can find Win64 builds as well as the source at http://www.kikrtech.com.

I will have 32 bit builds up shortly.

Peter

Thanks to the Crafty team.

[Bram Visser]

Great. Looking forward to the 32 bit version.

[Sean Evans]

Hello everyone,

Crafty 23.5 has been released, and you can find Win64 builds as well as the source at http://www.kikrtech.com.

I will have 32 bit builds up shortly.

Peter

Thanks to the Crafty team.

Team?

[geots]

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*    23.5   Several pieces of code cleanup, both for readability and speed.   *
 *           We are now using stdint.h, which lets us specific the exact size  *
 *           of an integer value which gets rid of the int vs long issues that *
 *           exist between MSVC and the rest of the world on X86_64.  We still *
 *           use things like "int" if we want to let the compiler choose the   *
 *           most efficient size, but when we need a specific number of bits,  *
 *           such as 64, we use a specific type (uint64_t for 64 bits).  Minor *
 *           change to forward pruning that does not toss out passed pawn      *
 *           moves if they are advanced enough (compared to remaining depth)   *
 *           that they might be worth searching.  Cleanup to passed pawn eval  *
 *           code to help efficiency and readability.  New options to the      *
 *           display command.  "display nothing" turns all output off except   *
 *           for the move Crafty chooses to play.  "display everything" will   *
 *           produce a veritable flood of information before it makes a move.  *
 *           Cleanup of personality code to fix some values that were not      *
 *           included, as well as clean up the formatting for simplicity.      *
 *                                                                             *
 *******************************************************************************

Pete, it is important for me to know if you are going to offer a 64bit and 32bit for 23.5 that has no popcnt or sse- so that I can run it on my XP quad. My intel i5, of course, is happy either way. And thanks for your efforts. (Wish you would call or email sometimes. Have missed your company.)


george

[skoony]

great news,
thanks peter.

mike

[zullil]

Hello everyone,

Crafty 23.5 has been released, and you can find Win64 builds as well as the source at http://www.kikrtech.com.

I will have 32 bit builds up shortly.

Peter

Thanks to the Crafty team.

Team?

I suppose you were expecting "oligarchy."

[Jouni]

I find it amusing, that crafty.rc is zipped as it's whole 191 bytes and unzipped 84 bytes But thanks for new version.