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Chess engine: Zagreus 2.0.0 alpha-3 (Windows and Linux)


Zagreus is a work in progress UCI Chess Engine. You can play against Zagreus on Lichess: https://lichess.org/@/Zagreus_Engine. You will also be able to find it's elo rating on there. At the time of writing this is around ~1800 rapid. 

Zagreus is a constantly changing engine with hopefully an increase in elo every update.

v. 2.0.0 alpha-3:
Better move ordering by @Dannyj1 in #11
Late move reduction by @Dannyj1 in #12
Improve king safety evaluation by @Dannyj1 in #14
Pawn evaluation by @Dannyj1 in #16
Performance improvements by @Dannyj1 in #17
Fixed underflow in time management by @Dannyj1 in #18
Fixed Late Move Reduction reducing early moves by @Dannyj1 in #20
Check search extension by @Dannyj1 in #21
ELO | 309.00 +- 34.12 (95%)
CONF | 60.0+0.60s Threads=1 Hash=64MB
GAMES | N: 848 W: 708 L: 105 D: 35

Zagreus 2.0.0 alpha-3 download


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