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Fizbo 1.9 has just been released.
It can be downloaded from https://sites.google.com/site/fizbochessengine/

Here are changes from version 1.8:

1. minor bug fixes: Fizbo 1.8 sometimes crashed when using 6-piece syzygy tables; that should not happen any more.
2. minor changes to search.
3. extensive changes to evaluation.

Expected playing strength is approximately +70 ELO vs Fizbo 1.8. Mostly due to new evaluation features.

Youri.

Thank you very much Youri..will be tested!

Happy New Year 2017

JP.

I'm getting this error message from both command line and Arena gui:

info string I have a big problem!!!
info string Time elapsed is 15 My time is 0 Timeout is 5

Thanks Youri, much appreciated. Happy New Year

Congratulations!! And happy new year!!

i put this message for diagnostic purposes (and totally forgot about it). It should be printed in case of timeout, and should not impact anything. So just ignore it, and i will take it out in the next version.

Youri.

Thanks Youri.

Fizbo is an exciting engine.

that was fast - thanks!

ymatioun wrote:i put this message for diagnostic purposes (and totally forgot about it). It should be printed in case of timeout, and should not impact anything. So just ignore it, and i will take it out in the next version.

Youri.

ah I see. This is what I get when I let it search to depth 26:

uci
id name Fizbo 1.9
id author Youri Matiounine
option name Threads type spin default 1 min 1 max 56
option name Hash type spin default 128 min 1 max 65536
option name Ponder type check default false
option name SyzygyPath type string default <empty>
option name UseEGTBInsideSearch type check default true
option name EGTBProbeLimit type spin default 5 min 0 max 6
uciok
go depth 26
info depth 1 seldepth 1 score cp 86 time 1 nodes 20 nps 20000 tbhits 0 pv e2e4
bestmove e2e4
info string I have a big problem!!!
info string Time elapsed is 1 My time is 0 Timeout is 10

Thank you very much... and a Happy New Year