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Chess engine: Inanis 1.5.0 (Windows and Linux)

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Chess engine: Inanis Author - Pawel Osikowski  Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=2972 Inanis - UCI chess engine written in Rust, proud successor of Proxima  v.1.5.0: Changelog Added aspiration windows Added support for tuning based on evaluation Added "k" and "wdl_ratio" parameters to "tuner" command Added prefetching of transposition table entries Added packed evaluation Added pawn structure to fast evaluation Removed "lock material" parameter from "tuner" command Removed "Crash Files" UCI option from the release version Removed Lazy SMP artificial noise Removed allocator, pawn hashtable has fixed size now Improved tuner performance and excessive memory usage Improved tuner output by setting unused parameters to zero Improved indexing of transposition, pawn and perft tables Improved rand algorithm (change from xorshift to xorshift*) Improved engine strength when using multiple threads Improved evaluation parameters Improved ove

New Chess Engines Diary Rating (CEDR) - 01.11.2024

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We have a new ranking list of chess engines - CEDR for you. Thanks to the work of the Chess Engines Diary team,   30 thousand games   were played in October and the ranking calculations were based on   480 thousand games ! And as I promised, only engines that have played at least 500 games are on the list. This makes the ranking much more realistic. Jurek All 480,735 games download Chess Engines Diary Rating CEDR – 01.11.2024 generated with Ordo 0.9.9 (anchor Critter 1.6a with 3230) All 480.7357 games, Time:3’+3” Minimum 500 games Pl Engine Rating Score Games (%) 1 Stockfish 20241004 3772.2 274.00 500 54.80 Stockfish 17 3764.6 2725.50 5060 53.86 2 Obsidian 13.25 SE 3741.3 295.50 518 57.05 3 Dragon 3.3 3726.3 3723.00 7266 51.24 4 Berserk 13 3717.9 3531.50 6235 56

New C1-512-25 - Ceres neural network (126mm parameters)

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  Neural network binary weight files for use with Ceres chess engine (in ONNX format). C1-512-25 - Ceres neural network  download   (Onyx format) Look:  How exactly do these neural network engines work? and Neural Networks for Chess - PDF