New version chess engine: Lynx 0.17 (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Lynx it's written in C# (.NET 6). UCI protocol is needed.

Chess Engines Diary Rating CEDR=2249

Lynx release artifacts are self-contained and require no dependencies to be run.

However, you can also choose to build Lynx yourself.

Requirements

NET 6 SDK. You can find instructions about how to install it in yo

v.0.17

⚖ Add full PSQT and tapered evaluation (#379)

⚖ Add tapered bishop pair bonus (higher in endgames) (#390)

🔍 Add Reverse Futility Pruning (RFP) (#382)

🔍 If there's a single legal move, make it immediately (#401)

⌛ Add basic time management when MovesToGo are provided (#409)

⚡ Various .NET related perf improvements around .NET 8 new capabilities:

Improve position UCI command parsing (#410, #405), improve position

Improve other commands parsing (#411)

Use FrozenDictionarys where possible (#403)

Use C#12 collection literals (#393)

🐛 Fix UCI_EngineAbout string (#408)

Non-strength winning changes:

Add printsettings option to print runtime settings Configuration.EngineSettings (#391)

Re-Add hashfull in last UCI info command using an approx value (#394)

Consolidate apple silicon binaries into osx-arm64 one, add linux-musl-x64 support (#412)

Lynx Rating CEDR Progress

Pl	Engine	Rating	Score	Games	%
1399	Lynx 0.15.0	2249.4	42.00	355	11.83
1481	Lynx 0.12.0	2067.8	18.00	175	10.29
1501	Lynx 0.13.0	2038.4	13.50	185	7.30
1522	Lynx 0.14.1	1984.5	15.50	486	3.19
1577	Lynx 0.10.0	1793.5	0.00	104	0.00

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Lynx 0.17 download

github:https://github.com/lynx-chess/Lynx/releases/tag/v0.17.0