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Thrawn 3.3 - new version chess engine

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Thrawn   - UCI chess engine Chess engine in c++ that uses a bitboard data structure and a piece square tables evaluation (nnue in the future) Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=3623 What's new? v3.3 improves on v3.2 with search improvements and faster NNUE inference, gaining ~139 Elo. Changes Search and NNUE latency (#26): histories are kept across moves, more correction histories, threat-aware move ordering, and pruning and draw-handling fixes NNUE inference and an exact legality filter (#27): fused accumulator kernels, a NEON forward pass that stays in registers, and an exact legality filter in the move picker Chunk-sparse fc0, AVX2 forward pass and early TT prefetch (#28): only nonzero inputs to the first layer (fc0) are multiplied, x86 builds get a vectorized forward pass, and the TT entry is prefetched earlier Testing Match Elo Games v3.3 vs v3.2 +139.0 ± 12.7 1000 8+0.08, 1 thread, 16 MB hash, UHO_Lichess_4852_v1.epd. W/L/D 469 / 89 / 442 (69.0%) Thrawn 3.2 vs other engi...

CorChess 20261106 - new version strong chess engine

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  CorChess   is a clone of Stockfish maintained for better performance on long time controls, trying at least partially to fill the gap between regular tests and demands of correspondence players. 👍 The team at Chess Engines Diary suggests using this engine for the analysis of chess games, especially for intricate positions. Thanks to the Author  Ivan Ivec Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=3938 CorChess 20261106 download   mirror CorChess 20261001 vs other engines : Revolution 6.40-150926 69.5/138 +1 138 Games Evolution 1.0 56.5/114 -1 114 Games Stockfish 19 JA 55.5/110 +1 110 Games HORIZON + 55.5/110 +1 110 Games Artemis 47TR_PrO 54.5/110 -1 110 Games Hlamnick 011026 33/66 +0 66 Games Kookaburra 3.11 32/60 +4 60 Games ShashChess 41.1 30.5/60 +1 60 Games Raid 7.9 30/60 +0 60 Games PlentyChess 8.0.5 30.5/55 +6 55 Games Caissa 2.0 28/50 +6 50 Games DON dev-20261015 25/50 +0 50 Games Reckless 0.10.0 26.8.26-dev 25/50 +0 50 Games Triumviratus 8.0 2026-10-09 25/50 +0 50 Ga...

Funcomp 3.1 wins New Chess Engines - Examination, 13.11.2026

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  The first pre-qualifying tournament of the new season has concluded. New engines, as well as updated versions of existing ones, were tested against the benchmark engine, Critter 1.6a . The engines that have qualified for further testing are: Funcomp 3.1, SparkChess 2.0, NARC-Genesys 5.0, Anvil 3.11.1, Ayano 0.9.1, SparkFish 3.1, Slate 0.5.3 , and Aqueval 1.1.0 . These engines will compete in Group E of the Chess Engine League qualifiers for the 12/2026 season. The remaining engines, which finished below Critter, have been eliminated and will not advance to further testing. CEDR 903.628 games download (until 30.06.2026) All Games  129.244  CEDR from 01.11.2026 download . 💾 Tournament games : 496 download 💻 Asus Zenbook, AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, RAM 32,0 GB   🖬 GUI - Arena #chessenginesdiary Country - Poland, City - Malbork   🕓 Time 3'+3" Rank Engine Rating Score S-B 01 Funcomp 3.1 3425 29.5/31  425,25  02 Sparkchess 2.0 2400 28.5/31...