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Chess engine: Velvet 3.1.1

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Velvet - UCI Chess Engine
Author: Martin Hornet, 
Rating CEDR (Chess Engines Diary Rating)=3056 (26 place)

 It is based upon my previous web-based engine Wasabi, which can be played here.
Installation
x86_64-modern - recommended for recent CPUs from 2013 onwards (requires a CPU with support for the BMI1 instruction sets)
x86_64-popcnt - for older 64-Bit CPUs, which support the POPCNT instruction, but not BMI1
x86_64-vintage - for older 64-Bit CPUs, which support neither POPCNT nor BMI1

v.3.1.1
Technical changes:
Fix for time-losses in multi-threaded search
Use segmented transposition table with new replacement scheme
Speed up transposition table clearing if option to use multiple threads is set

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