Booot 6.0 released

[IanO]

Up to 150 Elo stronger than the previous version.

If he is still programming it in Delphi, this should guarantee that Booot remains the strongest non-C engine for quite a while to come!

[booot]

Thank you Graham!
Finally i have got access to this forum.
Big thanks for all chess community - you help me to make my engine better. This version i have completely rewritten, so one more time i have had several not safe Delphi I/O functions with some bugs. I have fixed them now and can introduce you Booot 6.0.1 version.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ist2toswbsc12 ... e.rar?dl=0

[Gregory Owett]

Thank You, it works fine now !

[Sylwy]

Thank you Graham!
Finally i have got access to this forum.
Big thanks for all chess community - you help me to make my engine better. This version i have completely rewritten, so one more time i have had several not safe Delphi I/O functions with some bugs. I have fixed them now and can introduce you Booot 6.0.1 version.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ist2toswbsc12 ... e.rar?dl=0

Booot 6 series doesn't work under Windows XP. It is possible a new binary (at least for the 32-bit version) ?

[Guenther]

Thank you Graham!
Finally i have got access to this forum.
Big thanks for all chess community - you help me to make my engine better. This version i have completely rewritten, so one more time i have had several not safe Delphi I/O functions with some bugs. I have fixed them now and can introduce you Booot 6.0.1 version.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ist2toswbsc12 ... e.rar?dl=0

Booot 6 series doesn't work under Windows XP. It is possible a new binary (at least for the 32-bit version) ?

Note that the 32 bit version also does not work under Win 7 Ultimate 64,
Quadcore from 2009. The 64 bit version w/o ppcnt works.

Guenther

[ThatsIt]

Note that the 32 bit version also does not work under Win 7 Ultimate 64,
Quadcore from 2009. The 64 bit version w/o ppcnt works.
Guenther

On an Intel i5-2400 @3.10GHz / 4GB RAM under Windows 7 Professional
the 32-bit version of Booot 6.0.1 works fine:

Code: Select all

Booot 6.0.1_x32
uci
id name Booot 6.0.1_x32
id author Alex Morozov (booot76@gmail.com)
option name Hash type spin default 128 min 16 max 8192
option name Ponder type check default false
uciok
isready
readyok
go depth 16
info depth 10 score cp 40 time 500 nodes 10001 nps 20002 pv
bestmove d2d4

Best wishes,
G.S.
(CEGT team)

[booot]

Thank you! I have only comps with modern hardware to test. I try to find another hardware and will check what's wrong with 32-bit compiler.

[Sylwy]

Thank you! I have only comps with modern hardware to test. I try to find another hardware and will check what's wrong with 32-bit compiler.

It would be so nice ! I planned to do some tests together with Stockfish 7, Chiron 3, Andscacs 0.871, Texel 1.05, Fritz 15, iCE 3.0 and some other top chess engines. All have 32-bit versions working on Windows XP !
THANK YOU !

[booot]

You do not need to create dropbox account! Just click on the link and then the button "download" must appear somewhere in up-right corner of the screen.

[drj4759]

Estimated ELO for Booot 6.0.1 is 3053, an increase of 135 . Rank went up from 35 to 20 compared to last version

See the gauntlet matches here: http://chessowl.blogspot.com/2016/07/bo ... gines.html[/url]