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Chess engine: Minimalchess 0.4 (Windows, Mac and Linux)

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MinimalChess as an engine to an UCI compatible Chess GUI. Author: Lithander

Version 0.4
Version 0.4 now uses tapered Piece-Square tables to evaluate positions. It took two weeks of tuning and testing until I finally managed to find values that could rival PeSTOs famous PSTs in strength.
Version 0.4 also introduces a killer heuristic and staged move generation. A new time control logic is spending the allocated budget smarter, especially in modes where there's an increment each move.
These changes provide a considerable boost in playing strength to approximately 1900 ELO without making the code any less simple and minimal: Version 0.4 has seen a lot of refactoring and even lost a few lines of (executable) code compared with Version 0.3.

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