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Chess engine: Igel 2.5.0 (Windows, Linux and Mac)


Igel - UCI chess engine, Rating JCER=2954
Author : Volodymyr Shcherbyna (Fork of GreKo 2018.01)

Igel 2.5.0 news
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Implement OpenBench support
Implement BMI2 instruction support for faster search
Implement prefetch instruction support for faster search
Implement ponder support
Implement improved sudden death time control management
Implement use of hugepages in Linux OS
Implement more efficient tt management and re-write tt replacement scheme to 'always replace'
Implement proper handling of chopper moves
Implement improved king safety evaluation
Implement improved weights management
Implement symmetric evaluation function
Set tt score in qsearch
Set bestmove as a hashmove by default
Bugfix for knight outpost
Bugfix for depth skipping in smp mode
Implement pst based evaluation for connected passers
Bugfix for probcut in check
Factor in 'improving' even when in checks
Adjust bestscore from tt score
Bugfix shuffling of moves at root in smp mode

Igel 2.5.0 - download
All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page



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