Cheese 1.9

[Patrice Duhamel]

I released Cheese 1.9 :
http://cheesechess.free.fr/en/download.html

Changes :

- fix possible crash : not initialized variable for castling
- fix rare crash in very long games
- reduce pawn hashtable structure size
- change main hash table structure
- remove early queen move penality
- remove lost castling penality
- more reduction in LMR based on move count and depth
- null moves pruning reduction based on depth
- use config.ini for default values in UCI mode
- add logfile option
- rewrite move ordering and generation
- reorganize search code
- release armv8 version

I made many simplifications in my code before starting to add SMP, but it's not easy and I didn't have enough time to work on it.

Now I start generating positions to try the "Texel tuning method".

[SzG]

Thank you very much, Patrice. It is so good to see you try new things with the old enthusiasm.
I'm going to test it as soon as a get the opportunity.

[Graham Banks]

Thanks Patrice.

[supersharp77]

Bonjour My Friend......Bravo Pour Cheese!

[Jamal Bubker]

Merci beaucoup Patrice pour la sortie de cette nouvelle mouture