New engine releases 2019

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Minic 0.57 https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/Minic/releases

[xr_a_y]

Minic 0.57 https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/Minic/releases

Not really any improvement since 0.53 ... A SMP/TC bug fix (thanks Graham ) and some evaluation features but those last gives nothing against other engines while giving nearly +50elo in self test ... I was hoping that adding evaluation feature will give great elo boost but that's not the case ...

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   1 redqueen-1.1.98.linux64             88      27     505   62.4%   22.2%
   2 minic_0.57_linux_x64_avx2_bmi2      46      25     504   56.5%   32.9%
   3 minic_0.53_linux_x64_avx2_bmi2      38      25     506   55.4%   33.4%
   4 minic_0.55_linux_x64_avx2_bmi2      38      25     506   55.4%   32.6%
   5 minic_dev_linux_x64                 22      25     505   53.2%   34.3%
   6 GreKo-Linux-64                       1      27     506   50.1%   19.6%
   7 igel-x64_popcnt_1.4.2              -35      27     506   45.0%   19.2%
   8 Fridolin310                        -43      27     505   43.9%   21.2%
   9 asymptote-v0.4.2                  -163      31     505   28.1%   14.3%
 

[voffka]

Hey xr_a_y,

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   7 igel-x64_popcnt_1.4.2              -35      27     506   45.0%   19.2%
[...]
 

Please use 1.5.1 in your tests, as there is a significant elo difference between 1.4.2 and 1.5.1

[voffka]

Hello Everyone,

Graham found a few bugs in Igel 1.5.1 and I had to re-upload the package 1.5.1 that fixes them. The bugs were happening on the old cpus that do not have popcnt instruction and when testing the smp version of Igel. Since most of the people don't have old cpus and most of the people don't test Igel with lazy SMP I decided to substitute the binaries with the same version.

Igel 1.5.1 at https://github.com/vshcherbyna/igel/releases/tag/1.5.1 (binaries for Linux and Windows)

What's new:

- Improving time management

This version is around strength of GreKo 2018.08 (2716) in my CCRL 40/4 tests:

Score of Igel 1.5.1 64 POPCNT vs GreKo 2018.08: 315 - 315 - 311 [0.500] 941
Elo difference: 0.00 +/- 18.15

[AxolotlFever]

hello,

axolotl 1.8 released

https://github.com/louism33/Axolotl

thanks,
Louis

[Guenther]

I was ready to post my updates to Tunguska, so it's nice someone already did it, thanks!

It still pretty weak, but certainly ~100 ELO stronger than the previous version.

https://github.com/fernandotenorio/Tunguska

I;m sure it will keep improving. :)

Analysing seems not yet implemented?
(at least it does not work here.)

[Guenther]

PyTuroChamp comes now with precompiled binaries for WIN/MAC and LINUX.
(You have to scroll to the end of the main github page to find them)

https://github.com/mdoege/PyTuroChamp

Rodent III 0.281 released
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/nescitu ... /artifacts

James Swaffords site missconfigured currently (too old php as Arenas website)
last working wayback archives for Chess4j and Prophet:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171006204 ... m/chess4j/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180821081 ... m/prophet/

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

SparkChess 12 release, a shareware from Romania https://www.sparkchess.com/ - differences between the free and premium version are mentioned on https://www.sparkchess.com/download.html

[ljgw]

I've released FrankWalter 2.4.0 - https://github.com/ljgw/frankwalter/releases/tag/v2.4.0

the singlecore are smp versions are now in the same engine, using the standard name - and also I've implemented a bit of king-safety.

Should be better than 2.3.5, I finished at an amazing 5th place in the CSVN tournament in Amersfoort this weekend:-)

--Laurens

[tpoppins]

Sapeli 1.11 POPCNT and SSE3 bins:

sapeli-111-tp.zip