Floyd 0.6 - new version chess engine

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October 18, 2015

Floyd 0.6 - new version chess engine

Floyd - UCI chess engine
( for Windows, Linux and Mac).

Homepage

Version 0.6

Workaround Arena problem causing all system memory to be used (reported by Ruxy S.)

Workaround Cutechess GUI problem that prevented changing the hash size

Fix crash under Cutechess GUI when using 128 MB hash (reported by Antonio A.)

Fix some crashes in late end games

Fix hangup/crash in win64 version after ~30 moves under Shredder GUI (reported by Gabor S.)

Added basic reductions, giving some additional elo due to deeper search

Disable null move in late end games, for better end game handling and mate finding

Added support for Raspberry Pi 1 & 2

Floyd 0.6 - download
All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

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