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Stockfish 15102510 - new development version very strong chess engine UCI

Stockfish - chess engines UCI

Previous version chess engine Stockfish 

Author compilation - Lucasart



Information on the compilation:
Use atomics instead of volatile 

Rely on well defined behaviour for message passing, instead of volatile. Three 
versions have been tested, to make sure this wouldn't cause a slowdown on any 
platform. 

v1: Sequentially consistent atomics 

No mesurable regression, despite the extra memory barriers on x86. Even with 15 
threads and extreme time pressure, both acting as a magnifying glass: 

threads=15, tc=2+0.02 
ELO: 2.59 +-3.4 (95%) LOS: 93.3% 
Total: 18132 W: 4113 L: 3978 D: 10041 

threads=7, tc=2+0.02 
ELO: -1.64 +-3.6 (95%) LOS: 18.8% 
Total: 16914 W: 4053 L: 4133 D: 8728 

v2: Acquire/Release semantics 

This version generates no extra barriers for x86 (on the hot path). As expected, 
no regression either, under the same conditions: 

threads=15, tc=2+0.02 
ELO: 2.85 +-3.3 (95%) LOS: 95.4% 
Total: 19661 W: 4640 L: 4479 D: 10542 

threads=7, tc=2+0.02 
ELO: 0.23 +-3.5 (95%) LOS: 55.1% 
Total: 18108 W: 4326 L: 4314 D: 9468 

As suggested by Joona, another test at LTC: 

threads=15, tc=20+0.05 
ELO: 0.64 +-2.6 (95%) LOS: 68.3% 
Total: 20000 W: 3053 L: 3016 D: 13931 

v3: Final version: SeqCst/Relaxed 

threads=15, tc=10+0.1 
ELO: 0.87 +-3.9 (95%) LOS: 67.1% 
Total: 9541 W: 1478 L: 1454 D: 6609 

Resolves #474 


JCER=3256

 Stockfish 15102510 - download




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