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Thanks Graham!

Thank you! I look forward to seeing what 1.9 can do!

Ah yes sorry, I should have made that clear. You can also see the latest release on this page https://github.com/louism33/Axolotl , just click on axolotl_v1.9.jar

axolotl 1.9 is out, https://github.com/louism33/Axolotl/releases
possibly 100 elo stronger, in self test

Hi Necromancer, Thank you so much for taking the time! And thank you also for your really good ideas. How would you go about evaluating your King Safety and Passed Pawn eval? At the moment I mainly use the Strategic test suite, and some Texel Tuning. Many thanks again, and I will post some more prec...

Hi Necromancer, thanks for the quick reply. Yes, unfortunately you will need at least Java 11 to run axolotl, which is easily available online : https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/11/ or https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk11-downloads-5066655.html I ran the STS suite at 5...

Hello, axolotl v1.8 has been released. https://github.com/louism33/Axolotl The main changes are bugfixes, but these have made the engine a bit stronger than before. I roughly estimate the elo rating to be about 2400, and I would be grateful to anyone who can give me a more precise number. The code i...

hello,

axolotl 1.8 released

https://github.com/louism33/Axolotl

thanks,
Louis

Hello, When my engine searches from the starting position, I noticed that it considers board positions which are completely terrible, such as rnb1k1nr/pppp1ppp/8/2K5/4q3/8/PPP3PP/RNBQ1B1R b kq - 1 15 or rnbq2nr/pppp2pp/5k2/8/1b2P3/2N5/PPP2PPP/R1BQKBNR w KQ - 0 1 these are searched at a depth of 11, ...

Hi all, how do engines decide what the maximum number of allowed threads should be? I am limited to a 4 core machine, and using a large number of threads does not improve playing strength, and I do not know what would happen if my engine was run on something powerful. Same with hash sizes. So the qu...