New version chess engine: Lynx 1.6.0 (Windows, MacOS, Linux)

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

Chess Engines Diary Rating CEDR=2890

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.1.6.0

🔍 Countermoves (#859)

🔍 Continuation history - countermove history (1 ply) (#645)

🔍 Don't always stop search when a mate is found (#827)

🔍 SPSA 2024-6-27 (#839)

⚖️ King-bucketed PSQTs (#873 (2) -> #876 (8) -> #879 + #888 (16) -> #893 (24) -> #902 (23))

⚖️ Escale endgame eval with pawn count (#821, #829)

⚖️ Give bonus to pieces protected by friendly pawns and penalty to pieces attacked by opponent pawns (#830)

⚖️ Use some Pedantic data for HCE tuning (#905)

⚡ Avoid stackalloc local initialization when allocating it for movegen (#858)

⚡ Optimize MoveGenerator.GeneratePieceCaptures() (#846)

⚡ Micro-optimization in MoveGenerator.IsAnyPieceMoveValid (#845)

Non strength-winning changes:

⚙️ Move eval parameters out of Configuration class, making them no longer configurable via appsettings.json (#889, #911)

🐛 Make .ToEPDString() fully PGN/EPD compliant (#841)

🐛 Avoid node count overflow (#835)

Lynx 1.5.1 - Individual statistics

Odonata 0.9.0	1/10	-8	10 Games
Beast 15 MPV	1/8	-6	8 Games
Caissa 1.19	0.5/8	-7	8 Games
HypnoS 220624	0/8	-8	8 Games
Kookaburra 3.00	0/7	-7	7 Games
Bread Engine 0.0.5	5/6	+4	6 Games
Javelin 2.0.0	3/6	+0	6 Games
Inanis 1.3.0	2/6	-2	6 Games
Alexandria 7.0.0	0/6	-6	6 Games
Stockfish 20240623	0/6	-6	6 Games
Dodecahedron 0.0.1.2 JA	4/4	+4	4 Games
Heimdall 0.1	4/4	+4	4 Games
Drosophila 1.6 JA	4/4	+4	4 Games
Sloth 1.9	4/4	+4	4 Games
JigSaw 5.8	1/4	-2	4 Games
Lambergar 0.6.0	1/4	-2	4 Games
Deep Ripper -1	0.5/4	-3	4 Games
Clover 6.2	0.5/4	-3	4 Games
Mayhem 8.3	0.5/4	-3	4 Games
Motor 0.6.0	0/4	-4	4 Games
SF-PRO 14.06.2024	0/4	-4	4 Games

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Lynx 1.6.0 download 

github:https://github.com/lynx-chess/Lynx/releases/