Purple Haze v2.0.3 released

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vincent
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Purple Haze v2.0.3 released

Post by vincent »

This is the first version backed up by serious testing.

Purple Haze is still a weak engine but this release brings a nice strength improvement, mostly due to better pruning heuristics (futility and null move).

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$ git diff v2.0.2 v2.0.3 --shortstat
 42 files changed, 1299 insertions(+), 817 deletions(-)
To download and compile Purple Haze:

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$ git clone git://github.com/vinc/purplehaze
$ cd purplehaze
$ make