New engine releases 2020

[Guenther]

FoxSee 1.24
Minic 1.39
Nemorino 5.28dev (version number finally in sync with appveyor, but now there is another glitch - it says build failed, but they are there)
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/christi ... 5ep2oig2ag

Infos:
The Andscacs site does not work anymore (haven't checked if this a temporarily issue?)
I hope Jose is well. I will add a wayback link later, if it fails for longer.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190730033 ... scacs.com/

OTH the SharpChess (Peter Hughes) website is definitely gone. below is the last working wayback archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190715031 ... chess.com/

The same applies for AviChess
https://web.archive.org/web/20181106024 ... nuxit.net/

[Terje]

Weiss 0.9 released, a crash fix and only a minor strength increase this time as most of my effort went into improving the code, not the engine.

Might have slightly bigger gains than indicated in repeating TC, spending more time on early moves as opposed to equal time for each move.

https://github.com/TerjeKir/weiss/releases/tag/v0.9

[bctboi23]

SeeChess renamed to CeeChess (to remove name ambiguity), and updated to version 1.3

plays around 100 elo better than previous versions, due to tapered eval + new PSQTs (taken from Lyudmil's tables in the PSQT challenge)

GitHub: https://github.com/bctboi23/CeeChess/releases/tag/v1.3

[Gabor Szots]

SeeChess renamed to CeeChess (to remove name ambiguity), and updated to version 1.3

plays around 100 elo better than previous versions, due to tapered eval + new PSQTs (taken from Lyudmil's tables in the PSQT challenge)

GitHub: https://github.com/bctboi23/CeeChess/releases/tag/v1.3

Another possible name could be SeaChess.

BTW, it seems to me it is WB compliant as well.

[Guenther]

SeeChess renamed to CeeChess (to remove name ambiguity), and updated to version 1.3

plays around 100 elo better than previous versions, due to tapered eval + new PSQTs (taken from Lyudmil's tables in the PSQT challenge)

GitHub: https://github.com/bctboi23/CeeChess/releases/tag/v1.3

Another possible name could be SeaChess.

BTW, it seems to me it is WB compliant as well.

You seem right. This info was not reported yet.

[tmokonen]

Tinman 0.2.0, including author's compiles (Is the windows compile popcount? It does not work for me on this old machine).
https://github.com/mikeleany/tinman/releases/tag/v0.2.0

Windows msvc compiles:
https://mega.nz/#!jh0DiQgY!ZAecSOWLJN7_ ... lelpOF2MWI

[Gabor Szots]

Tinman 0.2.0, including author's compiles (Is the windows compile popcount? It does not work for me on this old machine).
https://github.com/mikeleany/tinman/releases/tag/v0.2.0

Windows msvc compiles:
https://mega.nz/#!jh0DiQgY!ZAecSOWLJN7_ ... lelpOF2MWI

It does work on my i5-4690K and it is 64-bit. A bit faster than your compile but huge in size.

[Guenther]

I have recompiled Stash now at version 8.14 which should fix cpu usage.

FoxSEE is now at release version 2.0.0 (src already at 2.1.1, but unreleased)

If someone is interested, I made also a no popcount compile of current Ethereal 11.94.
Soon 12.00 should come out as an official release though.

[Roland Chastain]

Alouette 0.1.1

Fixed book usage. Replaces v0.1.0.

[Guenther]

LC0 0.23.3 was released three days ago
https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/r ... ag/v0.23.3

Also long time running training for net 59 (10*128) was stopped at 591226.
A new net 70 of that size was started.

Ethereal 12.00 will come soon, it is now at commit 1196.

CeeChess 1.3.1 was released yesterday
https://github.com/bctboi23/CeeChess/releases

Scorpio 3.07 was released recently
https://github.com/dshawul/Scorpio/releases

Topple 0.75 was released this week
https://github.com/konsolas/ToppleChess/releases

Koedem 1.1.2 was released last week
https://github.com/koedem/Koedem/releases

FoxSEE is now at version 2.2.1
https://github.com/redsalmon91/FoxSEE/releases

Sunfish had several commits in 2020 for improving uci/xb compatibility and removing illegal pvs
https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish