WyldChess 1.5 released

[mkchan]

You can find it here: https://github.com/Mk-Chan/WyldChess/releases/tag/v1.5

Changes:
-> Added Syzygy EGTB support
-> Improved LMR (in part thanks to Ed Schroeder!)
-> Added history heuristic
-> Fixed TT mate-score bugs
-> Better futility pruning
-> Begun switching to c++ for easier coding(and possibly smaller binaries for windows)
This version I mainly modified search without changing evaluation much. Self testing shows significant(100+) elo gains at 40moves/90s and a little less at 40moves/10s+0.1s but I doubt it will work out better than ~50elo going by the CCRL list.

I've been compiling Windows releases using the x86-64-w64-mingw suite for linux and the resulting binaries seem a bit large(i know it's a static compile but still). Will shifting to c++ really remove the need for pthread and therefore reduce the binary size?

Any advice/bug reports/suggestions appreciated.

[Graham Banks]

Thanks Manik.

[Dann Corbit]

Party time!
Excellent!

Be excellent to each other.

[mkchan]

I've added an Android/Raspberry Pi release to the same page(https://github.com/Mk-Chan/WyldChess/releases/tag/v1.5).
Works well for me with Chess for Android and Droidfish