KnightX engine released

[chrjly]

v2.8, May 2021
Tree searching improvements
Positional evaluation improvements
Fixed a crash that occured when the "logfile" option was activated
The incremental time setting can be expressed now in 1/10th of seconds when using the UCI protocol

http://technochess.free.fr

[Gabor Szots]

Thank you Christophe.

[supersharp77]

v2.8, May 2021
Tree searching improvements
Positional evaluation improvements
Fixed a crash that occured when the "logfile" option was activated
The incremental time setting can be expressed now in 1/10th of seconds when using the UCI protocol

http://technochess.free.fr

Sir your chess engine no longer work for many/most of the machines out there....I think they are popcnt only compiles...therefore unable to use/test them.since version 1.98...Thx AR

[CMCanavessi]

v2.8, May 2021
Tree searching improvements
Positional evaluation improvements
Fixed a crash that occured when the "logfile" option was activated
The incremental time setting can be expressed now in 1/10th of seconds when using the UCI protocol

http://technochess.free.fr

Any idea of the strength or improvement over previous version?

[chrjly]

Sir your chess engine no longer work for many/most of the machines out there....I think they are popcnt only compiles...therefore unable to use/test them.since version 1.98...Thx AR

I don't use any particular compiler option concerning the processor type.
I use the msvc 19.28 microsoft compiler (vs2019).
I also use the winmm.lib library (multimedia). I will check this.

[chrjly]

Any idea of the strength or improvement over previous version?

Maybe 50 elo points or more. It varies between opponents and I have not made a lot of games.