Official release of Ethereal8.16

[AndrewGrant]

Hello all,

I am excited to make my first major update in a long while, now that University has ended for the time being.

The official release can be found here : https://github.com/AndyGrant/Ethereal/r ... /tag/V8.16

Summary of the major changes (copied from the release page)

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    Added UCI option for setting the Transposition Table size
    Added PV Tracking and corresponding UCI output
    Added a Benchmarking utility (Uses some positions from StockFish)
    Reorganized some structs to be more cache friendly
    Began tracking the 50 move rule (+ Checking for draws)
    Saving Move History as [colour][from][to] instead of [uint16_t (move)]
    Swapped out some Magic Numbers with better ones from CPW
    Added Staged Move Selection / Generation
    Added a series of tests to verify the new move selection
    Many changes to improve code readability and documentation

The biggest change is the way moves are ordered and selected during search. All of my (self) testing shows huge gains from the most recent change. Hopefully this will hold true against other engines as well.

Also, if anyone could create a MAC compile for me, I will add it to the release files.

Thanks,
Andrew Grant

[Wolfgang]

Thanks Andrew!

I'll soon start a test, coordination here:
http://cegt.forumieren.com/t822-testing-ethereal-8-16

[Graham Banks]

Sounds promising. Thanks Andrew.

[AndrewGrant]

Thanks, looking forward to the results.

[MikeB]

Hello all,

I am excited to make my first major update in a long while, now that University has ended for the time being.

The official release can be found here : https://github.com/AndyGrant/Ethereal/r ... /tag/V8.16

Summary of the major changes (copied from the release page)

Code: Select all

    
    Added UCI option for setting the Transposition Table size
    Added PV Tracking and corresponding UCI output
    Added a Benchmarking utility (Uses some positions from StockFish)
    Reorganized some structs to be more cache friendly
    Began tracking the 50 move rule (+ Checking for draws)
    Saving Move History as [colour][from][to] instead of [uint16_t (move)]
    Swapped out some Magic Numbers with better ones from CPW
    Added Staged Move Selection / Generation
    Added a series of tests to verify the new move selection
    Many changes to improve code readability and documentation

The biggest change is the way moves are ordered and selected during search. All of my (self) testing shows huge gains from the most recent change. Hopefully this will hold true against other engines as well.

Also, if anyone could create a MAC compile for me, I will add it to the release files.

Thanks,
Andrew Grant

Hi Andrew, very nice engine,
here's a macOS compile: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9xica6iy0ngv ... 6.zip?dl=1

[AndrewGrant]

Thanks. It has been added to the release.