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Chess engine: Velvet 3.3.0 (Windows and Linux)

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Velvet - UCI Chess Engine
Author: Martin Hornet, 
Rating CEDR (Chess Engines Diary Rating)=3185

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.3.3.0
This release provides support for Fischer Random Chess (Chess960) and a small strength increase
Estimated strength increase: ~ 30 Elo

Changes
Support Fischer random chess (Chess960)
Neural network evaluation
increased hidden layer size from 256 to 512
trained new network (including Chess960 positions)
Some refactorings and minor search improvements

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