Maverick 1.0 Released

[ThatsIt]

ELO 2352 out of 1300 games + 165

Best wishes,
G.S.
(CEGT team)

[Steve Maughan]

Gerhard,

ELO 2352 out of 1300 games + 165

Best wishes,
G.S.
(CEGT team)

Great! Thanks for testing,

Best regards,

Steve

[zd3nik]

Hi,

I just downloaded Maverick 1.0 and will be using it for future gauntlet testing of my engines. Thanks!

Did you do any isolated testing with beta pruning? Do you think it was an essential part of the ELO boost? I've tried beta pruning before with very mixed results. And I haven't looked recently but I think stockfish used to do this (labelled as "static null move pruning") and it has been removed in recent versions.

Thanks,
STC

[Steve Maughan]

Hi Shawn,

I haven't tested beta pruning extensively. I don't think it's adding too much of the strength improvement. I'd estimate maybe 20 ELO - but that's just a guess.

The reason I added it was it was super simple to implement. It did decrease Maverick's tactical ability so I may take it out as I add more aggressive LMR or other selective search schemes.

Thanks for testing,

Steve

[Steve Maughan]

Congrats on the new version, Steve. I figured once you added reductions and pruning, you'd close in on 2500.

Thanks Erik - looking forward to sparing with MadChess 2.0!

Steve