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lkaufman wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:50 pm Komodo 12.2 has been released at komodochess.com. As usual it is free for subscribers and discounted 20% for purchasers of Komodo 11 or higher. It includes both the normal and MCTS versions. This is a rather major release, for several reasons.

mbabigian wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 5:07 pm Larry, in your opinion, which version scales best with time and which with cores?

Mike

lkaufman wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:50 pm We are considering splitting normal and MCTS Komodo into two separate engines in the future, but if so subscribers will be eligible to receive both. As to whether the MCTS version will surpass the normal one and become our main (or even only) version, only time will tell. Now that the gap is down to about 100 elo, it is at least a realistic possibility.

lkaufman wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:50 pm Komodo 12.2 has been released at komodochess.com. As usual it is free for subscribers and discounted 20% for purchasers of Komodo 11 or higher. It includes both the normal and MCTS versions. This is a rather major release, for several reasons.

The strength of the MCTS version is vastly improved, up around 200 elo points at blitz levels, perhaps 150 at much longer time controls. Our predicted ratings for it on the CCRL 40/4 scale are 3320 on 1 thread, 3350 on 2, and 3380 on 4 threads. We now believe that the MCTS version is stronger than the normal one when both are using MultiPV = 3 or more, and would rank in the top five independent engines if substituted for normal Komodo.

The low thread limit for MCTS is gone, we believe it can benefit from up to 64 threads, although this has not yet been proven beyond 30 threads.
The many-years old slow startup of Komodo on big machines with big hash tables is solved! Also Komodo is now able to make better use of big hardware with more than one “NUMA Node”. These are important for major tournaments like CCC and TCEC, and most people with 12 or more cores should see some benefits.

The playing strength of normal Komodo has been improved about 10 elo on four threads at blitz time controls, somewhat less on single thread. In general MP play has been improved noticeably since last (12.1.1) release.
Several minor bugs have been fixed.

We are considering splitting normal and MCTS Komodo into two separate engines in the future, but if so subscribers will be eligible to receive both. As to whether the MCTS version will surpass the normal one and become our main (or even only) version, only time will tell. Now that the gap is down to about 100 elo, it is at least a realistic possibility.

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Guenther wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 7:26 pm

lkaufman wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:50 pm We are considering splitting normal and MCTS Komodo into two separate engines in the future, but if so subscribers will be eligible to receive both. As to whether the MCTS version will surpass the normal one and become our main (or even only) version, only time will tell. Now that the gap is down to about 100 elo, it is at least a realistic possibility.

Is the version number for the MCTS version currently the same as for the normal version?
I am asking for the entries in my XB/UCI chronology.