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Chess engine: ShashChess 20.2 (Windows and Linux)

ShashChess - UCI chess engine.
Rating CEDR=3481

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine derived from Stockfish family chess engines. 

v.20.2:
ShashChess 20.2
Refactored MCTS (
More refined MCTS
Fix on learning
Stockfish patch
Author: Rui Coelho
Date: Thu Jan 13 22:25:01 2022 +0100
Timestamp: 1642109101

Use complexity in search

This patch uses the complexity measure (from #3875) as a heuristic for null move pruning.
Hopefully, there may be room to use it in other pruning techniques.
I would like to thank vondele and locutus2 for the feedback and suggestions during testing.


ShashChess 20.2 - download

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