Verychess 0.11.0 new version chess engine
VeryChess introduces multi-threaded search based on the Lazy SMP approach, with support for 1 to 256 search threads and a shared lock-free transposition table. Author: Oleh Sych Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=2729 Verychess what's new? Overview This release is a broad one: no single change dominates, but a long series of search and evaluation improvements adds up, and the engine's inner loop got substantially faster without changing a single search decision. On Apple Silicon the engine now searches about 30% more positions per second than 0.10.0; on an older Intel machine the three structural speed-ups alone added roughly +40%. Strength In a gauntlet tournament against other well-known chess engines (the permanent testing group used for VeryChess benchmarking) on an ARM64 Mac with an M2 CPU, VeryChess 0.11.0 achieved a rating of 2960 ± 26 ELO. Compared with VeryChess 0.10.0, which scored 2909 ± 27 ELO under the same benchmark configuration, version 0.11.0 shows an improveme...
