Floyd 0.8 released
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:41 am
Floyd is a simplistic chess engine I use for study purposes. I have just released revision 0.8 because after some eval modifications it is much stronger than the previous version.
Download here: https://marcelk.net/floyd/ (courtesy Joost for the win64 binary)
Sources on github: https://github.com/kervinck/floyd/commits/v0.8
Main changes:
- Gained approximately 150 elo at fast time controls
- More attractive playing style, mainly due to evaluation
- Improved timecontrol for very fast fames with zero increment
Under the hood:
- Recapture extension and single reply extension
- Saner evaluation for passers and king attacks
- Added pawn/king table to keep speed roughly unchanged
- 3x improved precision of built-in benchmark
- Removal of needless SAN parser
Download here: https://marcelk.net/floyd/ (courtesy Joost for the win64 binary)
Sources on github: https://github.com/kervinck/floyd/commits/v0.8
Main changes:
- Gained approximately 150 elo at fast time controls
- More attractive playing style, mainly due to evaluation
- Improved timecontrol for very fast fames with zero increment
Under the hood:
- Recapture extension and single reply extension
- Saner evaluation for passers and king attacks
- Added pawn/king table to keep speed roughly unchanged
- 3x improved precision of built-in benchmark
- Removal of needless SAN parser
What a good news ! 