New engine releases & news H2 2023

[Guenther]

Megalodon 1.1.0
(only linux currently will compile it soon - or anyone else)
https://github.com/megalodon-chess/megalodon

Athena 1
https://github.com/NicolasSegl/Athena

[Guenther]

Eubos 2.22
https://github.com/cjbolt/EubosChess

[JacquesRW]

akimbo 0.4.0
https://github.com/JacquesRW/akimbo/releases/tag/v0.4.0

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ELO   | 150.10 +- 12.36 (95%)
CONF  | 60.0+0.60s Threads=1 Hash=128MB
GAMES | N: 2000 W: 1019 L: 205 D: 776
https://chess.swehosting.se/test/2280/

[Guenther]

Luna 0.4.0
https://github.com/Mergener/lunachess

Marvin 6.2.0 soon to come! (today or tomorrow)
https://github.com/bmdanielsson/marvin-chess

news:
https://github.com/Ciekce/Stormphrax

[Alex2262]

Altair 4.0.0 released! And it now supports FRC.

https://github.com/Alex2262/AltairChess ... tag/v4.0.0

Thanks!

[archip]

Hi! This marks the 7th release of the Midnight Chess Engine
https://github.com/archishou/MidnightCh ... ses/tag/v7

Development has slowed significantly as Midnight has gotten stronger and as I've gotten busier with other projects. This version of Midnight includes a major bug fix to Moves To Go time controls that should allow Midnight to perform with comparable strength to its shorter time control results. I expect Midnight v7 to be around ~3150 CCRL ELO.

LTC Progression Test

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ELO   | 100.33 +- 14.30 (95%)
CONF  | 40.0+0.40s Threads=1 Hash=128MB
GAMES | N: 1000 W: 363 L: 82 D: 555

https://chess.swehosting.se/test/2435/

Summarized Changelog
* [All patches](https://github.com/archishou/MidnightCh ... label%3Av7)
* [ELO gaining patches](https://github.com/archishou/MidnightCh ... Aelo-patch)
* [Refactors](https://github.com/archishou/MidnightCh ... 3Arefactor)

[Gabor Szots]

Wahoo 3.0.0

https://github.com/spamdrew128/Wahoo/releases/tag/3.0.0

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi there,

I saw yesterday in the evening that Mark Uniacke
triggered an GUI earthquake with a vulcano engine eruption ... or like this.
Not installed yet, but for sure when it becomes night I will do that.

GUI: Chess Explorer
Engine: Hiarcs
Programmer: Marc Uniacke, England
On the road for us for more than 30 years, I believe more than 35 years if I am looking on my Hiarcs 1.0 MS DOS Disk.

https://www.hiarcs.com/pc-chess-explore ... nload.html

Best
Frank

[eduherminio]

Lynx 0.14.0 is out!

• A basic transposition table was supposed to be the big feature for this release, although it has been letting me down for the past weeks when testing it myself. I guess I just have a nasty bug or didn't implement it properly. It can be disabled setting Hash to 0 via UCI, in case anyone is bored enough to try and compare both versions (with and without it).

• I also implemented online tb probing (UseOnlineTablebaseInRootPositions uci flag), which won't be useful in terms of CCRL elo, but I guess is a first step towards the local tb support.

Looking forward to seeing some results

[Witek]

Caissa 1.11 has been released:
https://github.com/Witek902/Caissa/releases/tag/1.11