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Chess engine: Loki 3.5.0

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Loki is a UCI-compliant chess engine written in C++.  Author: Niels Abildskov
Rating JCER=2509

v. 3.5.0:
Major changes:
Reworked UCI. The reason for this is two-fold. Firstly, it removes the biggest source of Vice influence, and thus increases the originality of Loki. Secondly, it is written in a more C++ like manner, which will hopefully increase the homogeneity of Loki's code. Additionally the fgets function in uci.cpp was unstable on Linux, so it needed to be removed.
Bench command. This has been added in order for Loki to qualify for OpenBench testing. OpenBench is a distributed testing framework written by Andrew Grant, creator of Ethereal. Thanks to the creator of Berserk, who has generously offered me to join his server and thus test on his hardware, the testing of Loki will from now on be more rigouros and reliable.
Minor changes:
Loki now has a logo! True to the origin of the name, it is a viking shield. An icon has also been added, but it is not added to the executable by default yet.
Fixed duplicate killers bug. This increases move ordering.
Added aspiration windows. (+10 elo)

Loki 3.5.0 download


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