DON Chess Engine

[erashid]

Maybe it would be nice to have a version with fortress recognition

Yes I am working on it.
Soon I will provide a fortress recognition version.

Thanks

[erashid]

DON chess engine now also supports PGN like moves.

in UCI moves:
position startpos moves e2e4 e7e5 d2d4 g8f6

in PGN moves:
position startpos moves e4 e5 d4 Nf6

and castling "e8g8", "O-O", "o-o" and "0-0" also mean same.

PolyGlot Book is also supported and very fast algorithm.

Thanks

[Elorejano]

Thanks for the servers

[erashid]

Thanks for the servers

Check out the latest build here:
I uploaded to 3 servers.

1. mega
https://mega.nz/folder/Cc1zkbAR#bnycmCX38aGjK6YavnMWqw

2. pixeldrain
https://pixeldrain.com/l/dWZSiJZ8

3. mediafire
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/06ewg9vo8mfuj/DON

Changes in this build:
1. Improved Evaluation & speed-up.
2. Small cleanup and bug fixes.
3. Increased performance.

Please tell me if you want other builds also.
I uploaded the following ARCH for windows.

1. DON-SSE4.1
2. DON-AVX2
3. DON-BMI2
4. DON-AVXVNNI
5. DON-AVX512

Thanks

[erashid]

Check out the latest build here:
I uploaded to 3 servers.

1. mediafire
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/06ewg9vo8mfuj/DON

2. mega
https://mega.nz/folder/Cc1zkbAR#bnycmCX38aGjK6YavnMWqw

3. pixeldrain
https://pixeldrain.com/l/dWZSiJZ8

Changes in this build:
1. Compressed version supported for BMI2 + Higher.
2. Improved Evaluation & speed-up.
3. Small cleanup.
4. Increased performance.


Please tell me if you want other builds also.
I uploaded the following ARCH for windows.

1. DON-SSE4.1
2. DON-AVX2
3-. DON-BMI2
3*. DON-BMI2-COMP
4-. DON-AVXVNNI
4*. DON-AVXVNNI-COMP
5-. DON-AVX512
5*. DON-AVX512-COMP

*NOTE: *COMP = Compressed version
- ~50% lower memory usage, typically 1–2% faster.
- Recommended for long gameplay and analysis.

Thanks
Ehsan Rashid

[mclane]

The thing that annoys me the most is that Don Dailey called his engine DOCH before he called it Komodo.
It was a very modest name.

Dons
Chess
Engine. = DOCH.

This is the reason I don’t like another DON engine.
There are zillions of names. Why overwrite computerchess-history?

[Jouni]

What is the point of this SF clone? Playing or analysing? Other?

[schahmatist]

What is the point of this SF clone? Playing or analysing? Other?

+1
The same question. Also, from what I understand this derivative exists for more than 10 years. As I am not a programmer and cannot analyze source code, a question: was it initially cloned from SF long time ago and then started living its own live, or is it constantly "refreshed" from newer SF versions (with some additional twicks). In other words, does newest Don version correspond to SF 17 or it's based on much older SF with many original changes after that which has nothing to do with following SF dev specific patches?

[RubiChess]

What is the point of this SF clone? Playing or analysing? Other?

+1
The same question. Also, from what I understand this derivative exists for more than 10 years. As I am not a programmer and cannot analyze source code, a question: was it initially cloned from SF long time ago and then started living its own live, or is it constantly "refreshed" from newer SF versions (with some additional twicks). In other words, does newest Don version correspond to SF 17 or it's based on much older SF with many original changes after that which has nothing to do with following SF dev specific patches?

https://github.com/ehsanrashid/DON/pull/122/files

It hides updating to latest Stockfish network in a patch called "Remove promo count".
Nothing more to say.