A new update of the Inanis chess engine: aspiration windows, improved performance and multithreading.
Strength : 3000 Elo, Link : https://github.com/Tearth/Inanis/releases/tag/v1.5.0
Changelog Added aspiration windows Added support for tuning based on evaluation Added “k” and “wdl_ratio” parameters to “tuner” command Added prefetching of transposition table entries Added packed evaluation Added pawn structure to fast evaluation Removed “lock material” parameter from “tuner” command Removed “Crash Files” UCI option from the release version Removed Lazy SMP artificial noise Removed allocator, pawn hashtable has fixed size now Improved tuner performance and excessive memory usage Improved tuner output by setting unused parameters to zero Improved indexing of transposition, pawn and perft tables Improved rand algorithm (change from xorshift to xorshift*) Improved engine strength when using multiple threads Improved evaluation parameters Improved overall performance Incorporated piece values in PST Fixed endless search in fixed-nodes mode Fixed tuner output filename Fixed crash when parsing certain FENs Fixed incorrect workload between threads in tuner Fixed incorrect evaluation of black pawn chains History version Version Release date Elo Description 1.5.0 01-11-2024 3000 Aspiration windows, improved performance and multithreading 1.4.0 03-08-2024 2950 Check extensions, relative PST, countermove heuristic 1.3.0 14-06-2024 2900 Gradient descent tuner, improved SEE and evaluation 1.2.0 15-01-2023 2850 Better Syzygy support, performance and stability improvement 1.1.1 14-08-2022 2800 A bunch of fixes for reported issues, stability improvement 1.1.0 31-07-2022 2800 Syzygy tablebases, MultiPV, adjusted evaluation 1.0.1 05-04-2022 2750 A bunch of fixes for reported issues, stability improvement 1.0.0 02-04-2022 2750 Initial release
C# programmer. After hours I enjoy writing chess engines, reading about history, space exploration and playing simulators or strategy games. I miss space shuttles.