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New chess engine: Equisetum 1.15 JA (Windows, Android and Linux)



Equisetum - UCI chess engine written in C++11, by Rhys Rustad-Elliott and Litov Alexander
Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=3498  

Equisetum uses Fail-Hard AB-search and NNUE evaluation. This approach resulted in an engine of moderate strength. One of the few strong engines using a fail-hard approach

Equisetum uses an NNUE (efficiently updatable neural network) as an evaluation function.

## Strength
Current Equisetum is estimated to be somewhere before Stockfish 11 and Stockfish 12 strength.

Equisetum 1.0 vs other engines:
Obsidian 11.05/18-818 Games
Rebel 16.34/15-715 Games
Ethereal 14.254/12-412 Games
Chess-System-Tal-24/12-412 Games
Uralochka 3.41 dev34/12-412 Games
Seer 2.8.03/12-612 Games
RubiChess 202401122.5/12-712 Games
Caissa 1.171.5/12-912 Games
Orion 1.09.5/10+910 Games
Jet 1.27/10+410 Games
Lizard 10.33/10-410 Games
Berserk 202403112.5/10-510 Games
Clover 6.1.193.5/9-29 Games
Belette 2.0.08/8+88 Games
Viridithas 12.0.03/8-28 Games
Black Marlin 9.03/8-28 Games
Alexandria 6.1.01.5/8-58 Games
Stockfish 16.11.5/8-58 Games
RofChade 3.12/7-37 Games
Velvet 7.0.04/6+26 Games
Deep HIARCS 15.34/6+26 Games


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