New engine releases 2019

[supersharp77]

New Release tscp for rust v1.0

https://github.com/kristopherjohnson/tscp-rust/releases

[MikeB]

Minor update to McCain X2 , to fix some 'Play by Elo/Level" coding errors pointed out by Ferdy. Also includes 2 minor patches from Stockfish. New Release is "X2a"

Will post new exe's as soon I have them. It's the weekend , so I'm not sure one I will have them - but I would say the 24 to 48 hours at the latest and perhaps sooner.

Current X2a source can be obtained here:

https://github.com/MichaelB7/Stockfish/tree/McCain

Will post some exe's tomorrow AM - headed for some sleep right now.

[MikeB]

Some exe's are now available for McCain-X2a - minor update to fix some GUI issues with UCI Limit Strength - using levels and play by Elo.

https://github.com/MichaelB7/Stockfish/releases/tag/X2a

[Damir]

Ethereal 11.38: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k3ofejd7yk1o9 ... t.exe?dl=0

[Paloma]

@ MikeB

Lukas Monge McCaine-X2a zip-file contains all previous McCain-X2 Versions.

[Guenther]

I'm happy to announce FrankWalter 2.3.5 - https://github.com/ljgw/frankwalter/releases/tag/v2.3.5

Laurens, I have a question regarding the newest 2.35 smp release for the XB/UCI chronolgy?
What is the max cores number FrankWalter currently supports?

Kind regards,
Guenther

[ljgw]

Thank you for your question Günther!

I only have some 4 core AMD processors, so it's tested with 4,. (And it's an improvement with 4, to be sure) I didn't implement a limit though, so conceivably 128 might also work..

Because of your question I looked at the code to see if there is something to be said about a theoretical max, and I think I discovered a bug! I am unsure if there would be any improvement beyond 4 cores..

--Laurens

[voffka]

Igel 1.4.2 at https://github.com/vshcherbyna/igel/releases/tag/1.4.2 (binaries for macOS, Linux and Windows)

What's new:

- Texel tunning using Zurichess test positions (725k) taken from http://www.zurichess.xyz/blog/texels-tuning-method/
- Fixing a bug with evaluation of pair of the knights. The buggy code was evaluating the pair of black kings and the pair of white kings

Strength compared to Igel 1.4.1:

Igel 1.4.2 64 POPCNT vs 1.4.1 64 POPCNT
tc=all/10+0.1
threads=1
hash=1024
book=up to 12 moves for both engines
EGTB=3-4-5 piece
Score of Igel 1.4.2 64 POPCNT vs Igel 1.4.1 64 POPCNT: 1656 - 1236 - 725 [0.558] 3617
Elo difference: 40.53 +/- 10.16

Igel 1.4.2 64 POPCNT vs 1.4.1 64 POPCNT
tc=all/60+0.6
threads=1
hash=1024
book=up to 12 moves for both engines
EGTB=3-4-5 piece
Score of Igel 1.4.2 64 POPCNT vs Igel 1.4.1 64 POPCNT: 1166 - 887 - 627 [0.552] 2680
Elo difference: 36.30 +/- 11.54

[tmokonen]

Has Neurone 11052018 Dev (aka Neurone XXVII dev) been mentioned anywhere outside of the GSEI web site? I see only XXVI in the CCRL rating list and on the RWBC chronology page. It's not that new (exe dated March 15 2019), but it is new to me.

https://www.g-sei.org/neurone/

[Guenther]

Has Neurone 11052018 Dev (aka Neurone XXVII dev) been mentioned anywhere outside of the GSEI web site? I see only XXVI in the CCRL rating list and on the RWBC chronology page. It's not that new (exe dated March 15 2019), but it is new to me.

https://www.g-sei.org/neurone/

Thanks Tony, this one slipped through.