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Damir wrote:Thanks a lot for the new version Mr Schultz. I hope you continue to improve it. Can you tell use the estimated strength of your engine in terms of elo ?

Damir,

Currently tucano is about 2750 in CCRL. I hope it breaks the 2800 mark now

Hello, Tucano 7.00 is available for download at https://sites.google.com/site/tucanochess This is the parallel search version (shared hash table implementation). This version should be much stronger than 6.00, about 90 elo on fast time controls. Main improvement come from evaluation tuning using Tex...

Thanks to all contributors. Learned a lot from chess wiki !

I think one reason is what many mentioned, it is a escape from work. I've done few programming currently, I am more on a system analyst role, so in chess programming I can do at my own pace, test ideas, learn, and take breaks. But i think the main reason for me is the "wow" moment, when your "creati...

Thanks Graham for running the series! Much appreciated!

Condolences to family and friends.

I'd like to participate too with Tucano.

Thanks

Thanks for sharing Daniel, and good luck at TCEC!

Hey Peter, it seems you did a very sophisticated tablebase implementation. I am planning to implement egtb in my engine and I was planning to implement syzygy support. Since I am not familiar with egtb implementation I was wondering why you need to complement with gaviota. In other words what I wil...

Hey Peter, it seems you did a very sophisticated tablebase implementation. I am planning to implement egtb in my engine and I was planning to implement syzygy support. Since I am not familiar with egtb implementation I was wondering why you need to complement with gaviota. In other words what I will...