Happy Thanksgiving and ...

[MikeB]

and even if you do not celebrate Thanksgiving, I believe we all can find something we are thankful for.

So for all my computer chess friends world wide - here's a gift for you, courtesy of Lucas Monge, Allen Cooper and yours truly.

Honey XR7 and company ...( 10 engines in total)

Source and details below:

https://github.com/MichaelB7/Stockfish/releases/tag/XR7

exe's of flavors can be found by scrolling towards the bottom...

Code: Select all

Bench signatures based on commits through 11/27/2019:

Black-Diamond-XR7.nodes:Nodes searched:  9311931
Blue-Honey-FD-XR7.nodes:Nodes searched: 13276817
Blue-Honey-XR7.nodes:Nodes searched:     5455321
Bluefish-FD-XR7.nodes:Nodes searched:   12051099
Bluefish-XR7.nodes:Nodes searched:       5589824
Honey-FD-XR7.nodes:Nodes searched:      11434545
Honey-XR7.nodes:Nodes searched:          5092260
Stockfish-FD-XR7.nodes:Nodes searched:  10845732
Stockfish-XR7.nodes:Nodes searched:      5742013
Weakfish-XR7.nodes:Nodes searched:       8134785

For those that build their own, just use the build script and modify it to suit your environment. It will build all 10 engines automatically, To build with no additional features, add 'FEATURES1=no' to the make command.

[carldaman]

Happy Thanksgiving, Mike + lotsa thanks for the new 'suite' of engines!

[AdminX]

Happy Thanksgiving and Thank you Mike!

[Airton]

Happy Thanksgiving Mike, today´s hero.
By the way, how can I compile the flavours like BlackDiamond? May I use a $ BDiamond somewhere?

[MikeB]

Happy Thanksgiving Mike, today´s hero.
By the way, how can I compile the flavours like BlackDiamond? May I use a $ BDiamond somewhere?

With the makefile provided , just add ‘NOIR=yes’ to your normal ‘make’ command.


In a Unix environment, take a look at ‘build.sh’ in the src folder - it will build all 10 exe’s in about 5 minutes on my machine , ymmv. I was told it takes 30 minutes on a Pi.

[JohnS]

Happy Thanksgiving Mike and thanks for the generous gifts.

[MikeB]

I created a Chess 960 book based on CCRl and ICCF games and it can be found here at the bottom of the Honey-XR7 release. Although based on over 500,000 games , the average 960 opening position has only 500 games or so. So the book is relatively big, but the lines are short.

https://github.com/MichaelB7/Stockfish/releases/tag/XR7 ->scroll to the bottom for downloads.

Thanks to Dennis Sceviour for his polyglot adaptations to enable 960 books.

http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.p ... 32#p820569

[Vinvin]

Thanks for all these engines, Mike !

[Leo]

Thanks. I didn't know there were so many Stockfish variations. I wonder how many people on here still use 32 bit. Is there such a thing as 128 bit in the future?