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New version chess engine: Lynx 1.4.0 (Windows, MacOS, Linux)



Lynx it's written in C# (.NET 6). UCI protocol is needed.
Chess Engines Diary Rating CEDR=2780

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.1.4.0
  • πŸ” Improve RFP (#652)
  • πŸ” Avoid doing TT cutoffs on PV nodes (#653)
  • πŸ” Use TT score as positional eval for pruning (#692)
  • ⚖ Tweak pawnless endgames evaluation (#693)
  • ⌛ Tweak time management (#664, #665, #667, #668, #671, #677, #691)
  • ⚡ Stop checking for two/threefold repetition and 50 moves draws in QSearch (#673)
  • ⚡ Refactor Update50movesRule() method (#678)
  • ⚡ Reimplement repetition detection (#679)
  • ⚡ Prefetch TT entry in NegaMax search (#681)
  • ⚡ Remove Position.StaticEval() heap allocations (#683)
  • ⚡ Force GC collection at the end of Engine constructor and after ucinewgame (#685)
  • ⚡ Use packed evaluation (#697)
  • πŸ› Clear history on newgame (#649)
  • πŸ› Fix long input position commands parsing (#650)
  • πŸ› Fix engine stall when depth over 100 is reached during search (#651)
  • πŸ› Don't search with fixed depth when cutechess provides 0s to move (#654)
  • πŸ› Prevent illegal moves when low in time (#657)
  • πŸ› Error when searching at max depth (#670)
  • Non strength-winning changes:

  • Add fen UCI command (#688
  • Increase max TT size from 1GB to 8GB (#669)
  • πŸ› Fix behavior of consecutive go commands (#655)

Lynx 1.3.0 - Individual statistics 
Motor 0.1.03/9-39 Games
TDFA 1.1.05/5+55 Games
Odonata 0.8.01/5-35 Games
Reckless 0.5.00/5-55 Games
Booot 7.30/5-55 Games
Mcu-max 1.04/4+44 Games
Leptir 0702240.5/4-34 Games
CorChess 202402090.5/4-34 Games
Eman 9.900/4-44 Games
Alexandria 6.00/4-44 Games
Leorik 3.00/4-44 Games
ShashChess 34.60/4-44 Games
Lizard 10.20/4-44 Games
Catto 0.4.13/3+33 Games
ChessBrainVB 4.030/3-33 Games
Cheng 4.450/3-33 Games
Sloth 1.62/2+22 Games
Peripheral 1.1.32/2+22 Games
Bagatur 4.1a1.5/2+12 Games
Stockfish 202402140/2-22 Games
SF-PRO 16.02.20240/2-22 Games


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Lynx 1.4.0 download 
github:https://github.com/lynx-chess/Lynx/releases/tag/v1.4.0

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