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Chess engine: Zagreus 3.0 (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.

Author:Manuel Diaz  Rating CEDR=2016

v. 3.0:
This is a pretty big update coming with a complete evaluation rewrite, improving performance, improvements to the gradient descent tuner and fixing a good amount of issues. Self-play shows a pretty good ELO change (although the real change against other engines is usually less).

ELO Change
Elo | 160.52 +- 30.39 (95%)
SPRT | 60.0+0.60s Threads=1 Hash=64MB
LLR | 1.33 (-2.94, 2.94) [0.50, 2.50]
Games | N: 542 W: 347 L: 113 D: 82
Penta | [9, 13, 88, 57, 104]

What's Changed
Smarter/better time management by @Dannyj1 in #48
Cleanup of search code by @Dannyj1 in #49
Fix TT move sorting by @Dannyj1 in #50
Simplify versioning scheme, no more "patch" versions by @Dannyj1 in #51
Also add fail-low nodes to the TT by @Dannyj1 in #52
Tuner improvements and fixes by @Dannyj1 in #55
Evaluation rework by @Dannyj1 in #54
Use central finite difference for gradient estimation by @Dannyj1 in #58

Individual statistics: Zagreus 2.0.0 alpha-2 - 105 games (+  7,=  1,- 97),  7.1 %
Critter 1.6a                  :   8 (+  0,=  0,-  8),  0.0 %
Houdini 1.5a                  :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
ECE 20.1                      :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Xiphos 0.6.1                  :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Komodo 13.02                  :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Coiled 1.1                    :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Protej 0.6.3                  :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Lozza 2.4                     :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Expositor 2BR17               :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Kayra 1.7                     :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Igel 3.3.0                    :   6 (+  0,=  0,-  6),  0.0 %
Inanis 1.2.0                  :   4 (+  0,=  0,-  4),  0.0 %
Koivisto 9.0                  :   6 (+  0,=  0,-  6),  0.0 %
Caissa 1.5                    :   6 (+  0,=  0,-  6),  0.0 %
Frozenight 6.0.0              :   4 (+  0,=  0,-  4),  0.0 %
Jangine 2023-01-15            :   3 (+  1,=  0,-  2), 33.3 %
Renegade 0.7.0                :   4 (+  0,=  0,-  4),  0.0 %
Mess 0.0.2                    :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Clovis II                     :   8 (+  0,=  0,-  8),  0.0 %
Durandal 0.1.1                :   6 (+  6,=  0,-  0), 100.0 %
Princhess 0.9.0               :   6 (+  0,=  1,-  5),  8.3 %
Wasabi 1.5.0                  :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Sturddle 1.27                 :   8 (+  0,=  0,-  8),  0.0 %
Sting Black Hole 4            :   6 (+  0,=  0,-  6),  0.0 %
BlackMarlin 7.0               :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Corchess 20230125             :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Viridithas 7.0.0              :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %
Protej 0.6.4                  :   2 (+  0,=  0,-  2),  0.0 %


Github:https://github.com/Dannyj1/Zagreus/releases/tag/v3.0

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