New engine releases & news H1 2024

[Carbec]

Zangdar 2.29

Improvements in history pruning. Although there is not a lot of modifications, Zangdar improved a lot, which surprised me !

https://github.com/Carbecq/Zangdar/releases/tag/v2.29

[Sylwy]

Titan 1.0 (New) by Jeffrey Powell (USA)
A very strong (probably already top 20-25) program developed since end of '22.
Tested in an own OpenBench instance
https://chess.drpowell.org

A close version compiled by me was already playing in Carlos blitz tournaments here:
forum3/viewtopic.php?t=83657

In a recent own test with (just) 1200 ultrafast games it came just around 100 rating points below Obsidian 12.0.
(results and pgn in my download - this was a version slightly before release, but release version increased nps by roughly
10% due to some last code changes!)

As there are no win compilations for now, I made an avx2 and a sse4.2/pop compilation available.
https://rwbc-chess.de/download.htm

More compiles (author's) here:

https://github.com/jeff-pow/Titan/releases/tag/v1.0.0

[Guenther]

Titan 1.0 (New) by Jeffrey Powell (USA)
A very strong (probably already top 20-25) program developed since end of '22.
Tested in an own OpenBench instance
https://chess.drpowell.org

A close version compiled by me was already playing in Carlos blitz tournaments here:
forum3/viewtopic.php?t=83657

In a recent own test with (just) 1200 ultrafast games it came just around 100 rating points below Obsidian 12.0.
(results and pgn in my download - this was a version slightly before release, but release version increased nps by roughly
10% due to some last code changes!)

As there are no win compilations for now, I made an avx2 and a sse4.2/pop compilation available.
https://rwbc-chess.de/download.htm

More compiles (author's) here:

https://github.com/jeff-pow/Titan/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Which don't work here at least - issue extended

[Gregory Owett]

Zangdar 2.29

Improvements in history pruning. Although there is not a lot of modifications, Zangdar improved a lot, which surprised me !

https://github.com/Carbecq/Zangdar/releases/tag/v2.29

Unfortunately, it doesn't work under Arena !

[Jim Ablett]

Titan v1.0 by Jeff Powell
https://github.com/jeff-pow/Titan

Titan 1.0 x64 ja

Windows/Linux builds

https://drive.proton.me/urls/V4WQ52ZJ14#L2XAD7Dr7a3p

Jim.

[robertstepien]

titan 1.0 ja in winboard and arena works fantastic

[Carbec]

Zangdar 2.29

Improvements in history pruning. Although there is not a lot of modifications, Zangdar improved a lot, which surprised me !

https://github.com/Carbecq/Zangdar/releases/tag/v2.29

Unfortunately, it doesn't work under Arena !

What doesn't work ? I used all binaries with Arena without problem. I am with Windows 11, and Arena 3.5.1.

[tmokonen]

Zangdar 2.29

Improvements in history pruning. Although there is not a lot of modifications, Zangdar improved a lot, which surprised me !

https://github.com/Carbecq/Zangdar/releases/tag/v2.29

Unfortunately, it doesn't work under Arena !

What doesn't work ? I used all binaries with Arena without problem. I am with Windows 11, and Arena 3.5.1.

I am having issues as well. For me, it crashes if I use more than one thread. I don't think the GUI is the problem.

[Carbec]

Zangdar 2.29

Improvements in history pruning. Although there is not a lot of modifications, Zangdar improved a lot, which surprised me !

https://github.com/Carbecq/Zangdar/releases/tag/v2.29

Unfortunately, it doesn't work under Arena !

What doesn't work ? I used all binaries with Arena without problem. I am with Windows 11, and Arena 3.5.1.

I am having issues as well. For me, it crashes if I use more than one thread. I don't think the GUI is the problem.

Hi,
Im looking into it. I have also crashes in multi-threads ( As I rarely use this mode, I didn't detect this. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Gregory Owett]

Zangdar 2.29

Improvements in history pruning. Although there is not a lot of modifications, Zangdar improved a lot, which surprised me !

https://github.com/Carbecq/Zangdar/releases/tag/v2.29

Unfortunately, it doesn't work under Arena !

What doesn't work ? I used all binaries with Arena without problem. I am with Windows 11, and Arena 3.5.1.

I use Win 10, Arena 3.5.1 and 32 GB ram, and from the start, your engine indicates 0 MB. Oddly, ver. 2.19.03 works well.