New engine releases & news H1 2024

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Re: New engine releases & news H1 2024

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v2.3 of Tcheran was released today. Elo gains are mainly due to a new lazy move generation implementation, but also a couple of minor bug fixes.

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Elo   | 25.75 +- 9.23
Conf  | 8.0+0.08s Threads=1 Hash=16MB
Games | N: 4096 W: 1685 L: 1382 D: 1029
Penta | [207, 358, 735, 421, 327]

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Elo   | 22.08 +- 8.85
Conf  | 60.0+0.60s Threads=1 Hash=128MB
Games | N: 4096 W: 1542 L: 1282 D: 1272
Penta | [145, 384, 837, 430, 252]
https://github.com/jgilchrist/tcheran/releases/tag/v2.3
https://github.com/jgilchrist/tcheran/b ... ELOG.md#23
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Re: New engine releases & news H1 2024

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OpenTal v1.1 by Paweł Kozioł
https://github.com/bcm314/OpenTal

Not a new release but new compiles
"My head is filled with sunshine.
In the first game of my match with Botvinnik I will play 1.e4.
And I shall win."
Mikhail Tal (1936-1992)

OpenTal 1.1
OpenTal is an open source UCI chess engine that emulates weird and wonderful chess of "the wizard of Riga" - Mikhail Tal. It is based on Rodent, and
probably plays at 2500-2600 Elo level. The exquisite tuner of chess engines, Brendan J. Norman, transformed all the missing rating points into pure style.
OpenTal will sacrifice material, turning the chess board into a world of chaos, and will mount a reletless pressure on its opponent's position.

Against decent engines, OpenTal will overpress and lose. However, it is not meant to play against engines. It is meant to play against you. Install it under
Winboard or Arena, and go against one of the greatest attackers of all time. No tweaks, no options, only Tal inside!

OpenTal has a couple of quirks. You can supply it with a modern opening book, but it will consult internal book made out of Tal's games first. Its evaluations
are notoriously unrealistic and optimistic. It wants to win and expects it to happen.

Version 1.1 has been released on 2018.01.05. It uses unchanged eval, slightly better search and is capable of conducting a multi-pv search. This means you can
actually analyze with Tal!
OpenTal v1.1 64 ja

Windows/Linux/Android profiled builds.

https://drive.proton.me/urls/HMFYFWRHF8#hwt6OhkHXDMV

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Re: New engine releases & news H1 2024

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Guenther wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 3:39 pm
Sylwy wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 3:12 pm
Guenther wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 12:28 pm 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
Hi Guenther

I too am having issues with author's compiles of Titan, as the the engine refuses to load in Fritz GUI.

Do you know if there is any solution to the problem ?
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Re: New engine releases & news H1 2024

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Damir wrote: Thu May 09, 2024 5:41 pm
Guenther wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 3:39 pm
Sylwy wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 3:12 pm
Guenther wrote: Tue May 07, 2024 12:28 pm 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
Hi Guenther

I too am having issues with author's compiles of Titan, as the the engine refuses to load in Fritz GUI.

Do you know if there is any solution to the problem ?
Well, just use mine or Jims compilations, they were all announced in this thread.
https://rwbc-chess.de

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Re: New engine releases & news H1 2024

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Guenther wrote: Thu May 09, 2024 8:05 pm
Well, just use mine or Jims compilations, they were all announced in this thread.
There is a new compilation made by the author for Windows (avx2 only). It works perfectly:
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https://github.com/jeff-pow/Titan/relea ... 4-avx2.exe
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Re: New engine releases & news H1 2024

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Sylwy wrote: Thu May 09, 2024 9:41 pm There is a new compilation made by the author for Windows (avx2 only). It works perfectly:
https://github.com/jeff-pow/Titan/relea ... 4-avx2.exe
That's the JA compile.
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Re: New engine releases & news H1 2024

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Jim Ablett wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:47 am Image
Winter v3.07 by Jonathan Rosenthal
https://github.com/rosenthj/Winter

Winter v3.07 64 JA
Windows/Linux/Android builds

https://drive.proton.me/urls/8Q9EV965A8#T4Svd94r9ocK

Jim.
Winter v3.10a 64 JA update

Windows/Linux/Android clang profiled builds

https://drive.proton.me/urls/MCQJWQZ39W#FuCldlyamR56

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Re: New engine releases & news H1 2024

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Zangdar 2.29.01

Fixes the multi-threads bug.
For information, I couldn't reproduce the problem where the used memory is 0.

https://github.com/Carbecq/Zangdar/rele ... g/v2.29.01
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Re: New engine releases & news H1 2024

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Jim Ablett wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:02 pm Image

Clover v6.1.1.9 by Luca Metehau.

https://github.com/lucametehau/CloverEngine

Latest version.

Clover v6.1.1.9 64 ja

Clang profiled build.

https://drive.proton.me/urls/D0HH1HBMA4#bvMYIwm1TGvX

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Clover v6.1.2.4 by Luca Metehau (update)

Clover 6.1.2.4 64 ja

Windows/Linux/Android clang profiled builds

https://drive.proton.me/urls/MTQ51BHY3M#InqrMSYrSdTe

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Re: New engine releases & news H1 2024

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Lozza v2.6 by Colin Jenkins
https://github.com/op12no2/lozza

Javascript chess engine converted to standalone executable.

Lozza 2.6 64 ja

https://drive.proton.me/urls/1SFHB30WMW#6I6G5Pt5sV84

Jim.