Chess engine for Android: Svart 5.0.0

Svart, a free and open source UCI chess engine written in Rust.

Author: Crippa

v.4.0.0:

I am happy to present Svart 5, featuring a few improvements to search that had previously gone under my radar.

Elo gain

Using the Pohl.epd book in self-play:

8+0.08 (STC)

ELO | 108.61 +- 7.59 (95%)

CONF | 8.0+0.08s Threads=1 Hash=16MB

GAMES | N: 5000 W: 2254 L: 740 D: 2006

40+0.4 (LTC)

ELO | 143.15 +- 10.78 (95%)

CONF | 40.0+0.40s Threads=1 Hash=256MB

GAMES | N: 2504 W: 1232 L: 255 D: 1017

Noteable changes

Three-fold LMR (#44)

Internal Iterative Reductions (#46)

Fail-Hard NMP (#48)

Improvements to the TT scheme (#49)

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