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New version chess engine: Clover 8.0

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Great news, a new version of the Clover 8.0 engine has been released. In the CEDR ranking, the previous version was rated 3681 and took 11th place. We will start the first tests today - this promises to be a big improvement in the strength of the game!




Clover - UCI chess engine
Author: Luca Metehau Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=3681

v.8.0:
New version is here! This time with a new arch, using 7 king buckets. This scheme is eye-balled based on the distribution of the king square. As per usual, there is also many non-network changes, such as improving code quality. I really like how Clover looks like right now, but I know it can be improved.

I know there has been quite some talk about the so called SIMEX, a very valuable tool, which detected clones in the past (up to 5 years ago). I've had someone run some SIMEX tests on Clover and some other engines and well the results speak for themselves.

                      Clover 7.1-dev   Motor 0.7.0 dev       Obsidian 12.0  Viridithas 12.0.0
   Clover 7.1-dev            100.00%             51.82%             60.04%             59.01%
 Motor 0.7.0 dev              51.82%            100.00%             57.74%             48.52%
    Obsidian 12.0             60.04%             57.74%            100.00%             57.96%
Viridithas 12.0.0             59.01%             48.52%             57.96%            100.00% 
There definitely is going on some kind of... net sharing... like clearly, Clover uses self play data, Obsidian Leela... ugh wait this doesn't make sense... aha, it must be network architecture... ugh wait they are clearly different... then it must be training procedure! Ugh, but Obsidian uses multi step procedure... I have no idea, it mush be the shared ideas on Discord!! Although the test is done at DEPTH=1, this totally makes sense!!

Thanks to everyone who has aided me directly (Ciekce, first person to PR gainers to Clover :) ) or indirectly.
Have fun and report any bugs!
P.S.: Thanks Ipman for the avx512 compile!

Clover 7.1 JA - results:
OpponentScore+-Games
Peacekeeper 3.0113.5/25+225 Games
Alexandria 7.0.013/25+125 Games
Ethereal 14.2512.5/25+025 Games
Viridithas 14.0.012.5/25+025 Games
Chess-System-Tal-212/25-125 Games
Motor 0.7.012/25-125 Games
Caissa 1.20 JA12/25-125 Games
Lizard 10.511.5/25-225 Games
Obsidian 13.011/25-325 Games
PlentyChess 3.0.010/25-525 Games
Patricia 3.113/15+1115 Games
Koivisto 9.29.5/15+415 Games
RubiChess 202401127.5/15+015 Games
RubiChess 202408175/10+010 Games
Velvet 8.0.05/10+010 Games
Titan 1.1.04.5/10-110 Games
Berserk 134/10-210 Games





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