Rhetoric 1.4.3 Released

[asanjuan]

It's been a hard year for me and I could only do minor changes and corrections. But these changes added 40 elo points in self test.

You can download the new version from
www.chessrhetoric.com (page in spanish)

Dedicated for those players who want an "almost human" engine and play interesting games.

[jpqy]

Thanks Alberto

A little question..is it possible to compile a bmi2 compile?!

JP.

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi Alberto,

good News!
At the moment a lot to do in testing engines but you can be sure ... I will test it (wait of it).

Best
Frank

[asanjuan]

Thanks Alberto

A little question..is it possible to compile a bmi2 compile?!

JP.

Not yet. Actually this is the first version that adds a popcount compile. My code is still not ready to add this extension.
Sorry.

Looks like it affects to mobility calculation. Do you know how much does it improve the performance? Popcount was a relatively poor speedup (5% or so).
At the moment I'm interested in improving the algorithm, so hardware speedups of 4-5% are not in the pipeline. Anyway, I will consider it for future versions.

[cdani]

¡Gracias! Thanks!

[MikeB]

Do you have a Mac compile?

[asanjuan]

Hi Alberto,

Thanks for the updated engine. Are you sure it is only 40 Elos better than 1.4.1? The size suggests you've made a lot of changes.

Yes, I am quite sure. The reason of the size is because
I changed the compiler. This is the first versión built with Mingw. Version 1.4.1 was built using an old VS2005

[carldaman]

It's been a hard year for me and I could only do minor changes and corrections. But these changes added 40 elo points in self test.

You can download the new version from
www.chessrhetoric.com (page in spanish)

Dedicated for those players who want an "almost human" engine and play interesting games.

Good news, this is much appreciated, Alberto!

Thanks,
CL

[asanjuan]

Do you have a Mac compile?

Last week I was looking for a cross compiler targetting Mac, but I couldn't find any.

It would be nice to find someone who can build the binary for me.
I can send him the sources by mail.

[Jorge Garcia]

Congratulations Alberto!
Keep on the good work