Invictus chess engine r228

[Edsel Apostol]

I've decided to release my new chess engine Invictus. It's almost 2 months old now.

Features:
Magic bitboards with pext optimization
Iterative aspiration window search
PVS
Null move pruning
IID
SEE/MVV/LVA
Transposition table
UCI with ponder support
SMP support with modified ABDADA and my own improvements (http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/Parallel_Search/How_To/)
NUMA support (Thanks Andrew Grant for the code)
Material, PST and mobility eval for now
Open source and licensed under GPL3.0

Download here:

https://github.com/ed-apostol/InvictusC ... s/tag/r228

This engine should be a good starting point for other programmers wanting to write their own engine. Estimated strength is around 2400 CCRL/2200 CEGT.

[pferd]

Nice

I will give it a a try tomorrow. Any news on Hannibal, I liked it back in its days...

[Graham Banks]

Thanks Edsel.

[CMCanavessi]

Windows defender doesn't like the file, says it's a virus.

[Modern Times]

Windows defender doesn't like the file, says it's a virus.

Same here - more than likely a false positive, but that is no help

[cc2150dx]

The file is clean : https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/75826 ... /detection

[Modern Times]

This is what Windows Defender thinks about it:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/th ... etype.A!ml

[pferd]

Compiles nicely on Linux with some minor modifications. Testing it against Fruit 2.1 right now

[Guenther]

I've decided to release my new chess engine Invictus. It's almost 2 months old now.

Features:
...
SMP support with modified ABDADA and my own improvements (http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/Parallel_Search/How_To/)
NUMA support (Thanks Andrew Grant for the code)
...

Hello Edsel, is there any chance for a release w/o popcount?

[Edsel Apostol]

I've decided to release my new chess engine Invictus. It's almost 2 months old now.

Features:
...
SMP support with modified ABDADA and my own improvements (http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/Parallel_Search/How_To/)
NUMA support (Thanks Andrew Grant for the code)
...

Hello Edsel, is there any chance for a release w/o popcount?

I've updated the release. There are three builds now:

pext w/ popcnt
magic w/ popcnt
magic w/o popcnt