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@crybot crybot released this 28 Jun 16:15
· 33 commits to master since this release

napoleon-rosso

  • Implemented a form of static null move pruning;
  • Added PVS search at root nodes;
  • Improved late move reduction;
  • Implemented Pondering;
  • Implemented basic passed pawn and king security evaluation;
  • Other small improvements and refactoring;

Results:
Test results show an improvement of about 130 elo with pondering disabled.
The new testing framework requires 2400 games at TC 15"+0.3" for each functional change.

Includes statically linked PGO optimized windows binaries and Fauzi's opening book used for testing.

NOTES: Current version only works with bmi2-compliant Intel cpus, which means at least Haswell. I'm working to provide cross platform/architecture binaries.