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New chess engine: Horsie 1.0 (Windows and Linux)



UCI chess engine: Horsie 1.0 (Windows and Linux). First release! Contains most of the features from Lizard besides multipv and pretty printing.
Author: Liam McGuire (USA)


Picking a binary:
Start with v4, and move down until it no longer crashes.

v4 enables Avx512,
v3 enables Avx256,
v2 is a fallback for older CPU's
STC vs Lizard 11.2:
Elo   | 30.53 +- 7.87 (95%)
Conf  | 8.0+0.08s Threads=1 Hash=32MB
Games | N: 2008 W: 557 L: 381 D: 1070
Penta | [4, 171, 482, 339, 8]


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