Zevra v2.0 r146 beta

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sovaz1997
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Zevra v2.0 r146 beta

Post by sovaz1997 »

Zevra 2.0 is new engine. It's beta version for now.

Completely new;
Movegen 2x-faster (perft: 20000 knps in i7-860);
Reduced the size of tt entry;
Initialization speed-up;
Code size does not exceed 3000 lines;

Source: https://gitlab.com/sovaz1997/zevra2/
Binary: https://gitlab.com/sovaz1997/zevra2/tags/v2.0_r146_beta

Test results:

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tc=60s+0.6s
Hash=16mb

Zevra v2.0 beta vs. Zevra v1.8.6:
Score: 200 - 87 - 134  [0.634] 421
Elo difference: 95.60 +/- 27.96
Now it's ~2380-2400 elo in CCRL 40/4.
Zevra 2 is my chess engine. Binary, source and description here: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2
Zevra v2.5 is last version of Zevra: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2/releases
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Re: Zevra v2.0 r146 beta

Post by Graham Banks »

Sounds like a nice improvement. :)
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Re: Zevra v2.0 r146 beta

Post by CMCanavessi »

Nice !!! Hope you release the non-beta soon :D
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Re: Zevra v2.0 r146 beta

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Zevra 2.0 now plays in Graham Tournament (71st Amateur Division 8).
One game from this tournament:

[pgn] [Site "GrahamCCRL.dyndns.org\71st Amateur D8.e1e"] [Date "11-06-2018"] [White "EveAnn 1.72 "] [Black "Zevra v2.0 r146 beta "] [Result "0-1"] [TimeControl "4025:000 "] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 dxc4 6. e4 h6 7. Bxf6 Qxf6 8. Bxc4 O-O 9. e5 Qg6 10. O-O Nc6 11. h3 a6 12. Bd3 f5 13. Qb3 Qf7 14. a3 Ba5 15. Rfd1 Kh8 16. Qa2 g5 17. d5 g4 18. dxc6 gxf3 19. cxb7 Qg7 20. g3 Bb6 21. Kf1 Bxb7 22. Qxe6 Rae8 23. Qc4 f4 24. Be4 fxg3 25. Bxb7 g2 26. Kg1 Qg3 27. Ne4 Qxh3 28. Ng3 Qxg3 29. Rd4 Bxd4 30. Qxd4 0-1 [/pgn]
Zevra 2 is my chess engine. Binary, source and description here: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2
Zevra v2.5 is last version of Zevra: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2/releases
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Re: Zevra v2.0 r146 beta

Post by sovaz1997 »

Correction of problems of the previous version (output lowerbound and upperbound evals, fix time manager).

https://gitlab.com/sovaz1997/zevra2/tags/v2.0_r165_beta
Zevra 2 is my chess engine. Binary, source and description here: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2
Zevra v2.5 is last version of Zevra: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2/releases
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Re: Zevra v2.0 r146 beta

Post by sovaz1997 »

Zevra v2.0 release!

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tc=10s+0.1s
Hash=16mb
Score of Zevra v2.0 r172 vs Zevra v2.0 beta: 225 - 126 - 202  [0.590] 553
Elo difference: 62.88 +/- 23.23
https://gitlab.com/sovaz1997/zevra2/tags/v2.0_r172
Zevra 2 is my chess engine. Binary, source and description here: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2
Zevra v2.5 is last version of Zevra: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2/releases
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Re: Zevra v2.0 r146 beta

Post by Sergio Martinez »

Hi Zevra lost on time most of games under Arena in my i7 6700k time control: 40/2. I have tested versions r146 and r172
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Re: Zevra v2.0 r146 beta

Post by sovaz1997 »

Sergio Martinez wrote: Wed Nov 07, 2018 9:33 am Hi Zevra lost on time most of games under Arena in my i7 6700k time control: 40/2. I have tested versions r146 and r172
40 moves in 2 seconds or minutes? Today-tomorrow I will try to fix all the problems found and release 2.0.1. Thanks for testing!
Is it time loses?
Zevra 2 is my chess engine. Binary, source and description here: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2
Zevra v2.5 is last version of Zevra: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2/releases
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Re: Zevra v2.0 r146 beta

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40 moves in 2 minutes.

there are time loses. Zevra spent all time without move (appears engine crashes)
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Re: Zevra v2.0 r146 beta

Post by sovaz1997 »

Sergio Martinez wrote: Wed Nov 07, 2018 10:02 am 40 moves in 2 minutes.

there are time loses. Zevra spent all time without move (appears engine crashes)
I make update binaries, you can check it
Zevra 2 is my chess engine. Binary, source and description here: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2
Zevra v2.5 is last version of Zevra: https://github.com/sovaz1997/Zevra2/releases