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mcostalba
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Stockfish 8 official

Post by mcostalba »

Stockfish 8 has been reelased few hours ago, you can download here:

https://stockfishchess.org/

This is the result of the effort of many people along many months: it has been a huge and hard effort and I would like to thank all the testers for their relentless patience, determination and creativity. I would like to thank all the people supporting us with CPU time (we don't ask nor accept donations so if you want to support us then donating CPU time through fishtest http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests is the way to go and we greatly appreciate that). I would like to thank Kiran Panditrao for the super fast binaries provided in record time and Daylen Yang for the amazingly fast update of the site: you guys are great!

SF 8 is the same version that will go for the TCEC superfinal, it will be exactly the same, so what else should I say? Just finger crossed for TCEC and have fun you all with this new SF 8 :-)
Modern Times
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Re: Stockfish 8 official

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The x64 popcount exe does not run on my AMD X6 1090t, and that CPU does have popcount support. The standard x64 exe does run.

The popcount exe does run on my AMD FX8350.
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whereagles
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Re: Stockfish 8 official

Post by whereagles »

no Mac bin/app yet.. any ETA?

great work :)
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Re: Stockfish 8 official

Post by h1a8 »

mcostalba wrote:Stockfish 8 has been reelased few hours ago, you can download here:

https://stockfishchess.org/

This is the result of the effort of many people along many months: it has been a huge and hard effort and I would like to thank all the testers for their relentless patience, determination and creativity. I would like to thank all the people supporting us with CPU time (we don't ask nor accept donations so if you want to support us then donating CPU time through fishtest http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests is the way to go and we greatly appreciate that). I would like to thank Kiran Panditrao for the super fast binaries provided in record time and Daylen Yang for the amazingly fast update of the site: you guys are great!

SF 8 is the same version that will go for the TCEC superfinal, it will be exactly the same, so what else should I say? Just finger crossed for TCEC and have fun you all with this new SF 8 :-)
Thanks so much!
I have an i7 (2nd generation i7-2630QM) laptop. Which compile would work best for me?
Modern Times
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Re: Stockfish 8 official

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Modern Times wrote:The x64 popcount exe does not run on my AMD X6 1090t, and that CPU does have popcount support. The standard x64 exe does run.

The popcount exe does run on my AMD FX8350.
The Stockfish modern exe "Stockfish 301016 64 POPCNT" from ultimaiq.net does work on the X6 1090t and that I believe is exactly Stockfish 8. So I have a popcnt version of SF8 for the X6 now :)

On the FX8350 the above popcnt exe is almost exactly the same speed as the official POPCNT Stockfish 8 version.
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Re: Stockfish ... and 5 compiles, bench!

Post by Frank Quisinsky »

Hi there,

at first, thanks to the SF team.
But I don't know which off all the versions I should test.

Here the results on my i7 5Gen. 4.0 Ghz PC.
ASM with a big "?"
BrainFish, SF 8 and the compile by ii u. ll is around the same!

ASMFish 17Oct2016 BMI2 x64
1866, 5.392.715, 2.889.986
https://github.com/tthsqe12/asm/find/master

BrainFish 30Oct2016 BMI2 x64
2546, 5.926.706, 2.327.849
http://zipproth.com/

StockFish 30Oct2016 BMI2 x64 ii u. ll
2555, 5.926.706, 2.319.650
http://chess.ultimaiq.net/stockfish.html

StockFish 8 BMI2 x64
2573, 5.926.706, 2.303.422
https://stockfishchess.org/

StockFish 30Oct2016 BMI2 x64
2721, 5.926.706, 2.178.135
http://abrok.eu/stockfish/

Best
Frank
Modern Times
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Re: Stockfish ... and 5 compiles, bench!

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Very fast machine Frank...
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Re: Stockfish ... and 5 compiles, bench!

Post by Frank Quisinsky »

Hi Ray,

yes, and around 300.000 45-minutes games played (40 moves in 10 minutes) with the same hardware.

My list ended and I like to have the version in my list the SF team like to see.

I am absolutely not sure, should I test ASM or the official SF 8 because the differents to Brainfish or the compile by ii u. ll are small.

Best
Frank
Modern Times
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Re: Stockfish ... and 5 compiles, bench!

Post by Modern Times »

If it was me I'd go for

StockFish 8 BMI2 x64
2573, 5.926.706, 2.303.422
https://stockfishchess.org/
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Re: Stockfish ... and 5 compiles, bench!

Post by Vinvin »

Modern Times wrote:If it was me I'd go for

StockFish 8 BMI2 x64
2573, 5.926.706, 2.303.422
https://stockfishchess.org/
Yes, the fastest Official !

(+1% speed means +1 Elo)