14
Changes
- piece values are now tapered and optimized
- code cleanup, fixed bugs
- changed LMR conditions
- relaxed time management for long time controls
- small changes in futility reductions
- mobility and king-safety parameters are now using tables instead of multipliers
- new training data from self-play games
- now checking for check after delta pruning in quiesce
- introduced randomized replacement scheme for the hash table
- added counter move history heuristic
- changed null windows search conditions
89.3 +/- 7.5
compared to Nalwald 1.12
108.7 +/- 7.5
compared to Nalwald 1.11
Use the modern
binaries if your CPU supports BMI2 and POPCOUNT.
Intel CPUs including and after Haswell (2013) support BMI2 and POPCOUNT.
AMD CPUs including and after Zen 1 (2017) support BMI2 and POPCOUNT.