There is no release version yet because I called it a beta and prerelease. There were mainly some changes made in the default settings so that you would not have to change the settings yourself, many people do not want to do that. But other than that little was changed in this version, it is just a Beta. It is possible that because of changes in the King Safety in the Beta 4 version (not released, because it is so untested and Beta 3 is being tested by Shaun) this is now too high again but I'm leaving it as it is because I would also like to make some changes in the passed pawn scoring. If I am lucky then maybe I could restore the balance that way because the changes in King Safety also have to do with pawn attacks.George Tsavdaris wrote:Yes good questions, i'm confused too about all the situation.Jouni wrote:I find situation really confusing. We need overview of all developments
under way. I remember to read 2007, that Thomas Gaksch is stopped to
work with Toga, but that's was happily preliminary info. But who has written Cluster Toga and 3.1.2 SE? Is Fruit under development also?
Are programmers working in co-operation?
Anyone care to show me a link from this Toga Checkov release? I mean an official one, the latest and the strongest.
Toga II 1.4 beta5c, is coming!
Fruit 2.3.x is coming!
Rybka 3.0 is coming!
Deep Fritz 11 is coming!
Hiarcs 12 is coming!
Intel Quad QX9770 is coming.
Great Chess days are coming....
I hope Junior, Chess Tiger, Shredder,Glaurung,Crafty, etc too will arise....
Anyway as you can see the Beta 4 would be too unfinished and Beta 3 is I think very close to just a change of settings. But with WinMerge you can see exactly what was changed and most changes I described elsewhere in some scattered posts.
But the Beta 3 does have an official rating! I did not think that with the increased King Safety, which notwithstanding the risks against a good defending program, will remain the basis of Toga Checkov, it could still perform so well especially against Rybka 2.3.2a, it still scored about 25% !
Denis Mendoza has made several compiles of Beta 3:
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/discussi ... f=7&t=2992
And Shaun has published results here:
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/discussi ... 77265d7c6c
Regards, Eelco