SmarThink 1.98 is out

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SmarThink 1.98 is out

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SmarThink v1.98 — January 2018 release of the engine. Major changes:

— massive eval end search tuning;
— king attack evaluation improved;
— several optimizations;
— Linux (Ubuntu) version included.

Elo estimate: +50

Link: http://smarthink.ru/index_en.html
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Re: SmarThink 1.98 is out

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Just in time for Season 2 8-)
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Re: SmarThink 1.98 is out

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Thank you very much for the update. By the way, 32bit is working fine. But the 64bit is looking for a libmmd.dll and svml_dispmd.dll. My desktop OS is Win10 Ent.

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Ray Bongalon wrote:Thank you very much for the update. By the way, 32bit is working fine. But the 64bit is looking for a libmmd.dll and svml_dispmd.dll. My desktop OS is Win10 Ent.

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Same problem here.
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Re: SmarThink 1.98 is out

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Ray Bongalon wrote:Thank you very much for the update. By the way, 32bit is working fine. But the 64bit is looking for a libmmd.dll and svml_dispmd.dll. My desktop OS is Win10 Ent.

Regards,
Ray
Sorry, that's Intel compiler again :(

You can download and install Intel redistributable DLLs package from here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articl ... or-windows
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Re: SmarThink 1.98 is out

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CMCanavessi wrote:
Ray Bongalon wrote:Thank you very much for the update. By the way, 32bit is working fine. But the 64bit is looking for a libmmd.dll and svml_dispmd.dll. My desktop OS is Win10 Ent.

Regards,
Ray
Same problem here.

Sorry, that's Intel compiler again :(

You can download and install Intel redistributable DLLs package from here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articl ... or-windows
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Re: SmarThink 1.98 is out

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Which binary should one use with a Ryzen processor, AVX2 ?
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Re: SmarThink 1.98 is out

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Sergei S. Markoff wrote:SmarThink v1.98 — January 2018 release of the engine. Major changes:

— massive eval end search tuning;
— king attack evaluation improved;
— several optimizations;
— Linux (Ubuntu) version included.

Elo estimate: +50

Link: http://smarthink.ru/index_en.html
Thanks Sergei. A nice improvement by the sounds of it. :)
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Re: SmarThink 1.98 is out

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AVX2 is the best if your CPU fits it, then SSE3, then plain _x64 and then _x32.
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Re: SmarThink 1.98 is out

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Sergei - is there a link to download the necessary dll files?
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