The release you have all been waiting for! Well at least Dadi Johnson waited!
A hopefully IDeA compliant version of Pupsi2! Yay!
It should rightfully be named, "The Phoenix version", since it has risen from the ashes.
I worked long trying stuff, but nothing gave any progress. The best version was the ALPHA 7 version. After that the versions became worse and worse, in spite of my conviction that the changes had to be good. Somewhere around version ALPHA 14, I decided that anough was enough! Out with all the useless changes! Back to ALPHA 7!
At that point the server with my svn repository crashed and burned!
It was hosted offline at a friend of mine!
And also at this point I was forced to change dotnet from 1.1 to 3.5, because of upgrade to the compiler I use. I have been trying to avoid this, since all indications are that Pupsi loses 5% performance going away from 1.1.
After many many tries to find the older source code again, I managed to find ALPHA 8. Then I reverse engineered the executable for ALPHA 7, and applied the changes to get something that was kinda like ALPHA 7.
So this release is kind of a "lets start from here" type release.
From this version forward, I am using the brilliant "cutechess-cli" tool for running fast test games. I use many starting positions generated ala Hyatt. But still testing will be painfully slow, since I have very limited access to CPU power.
So to make a long post .... longer .... here it is: 0.08
Tip for people stuck looking for improvements. Try testing a change to a parameter. If it makes the engine worse, you at least get to be slightly optimistic about changing the parameter in the opposite direction!
Kind regards,
Jesper
