New chess engine: Toad 3.0.0

 

Toad - A UCI chess engine, written in Rust.

Toad is a work-in-progress and serves as my personal excuse to write fun code in Rust.

Author: Danny Hammer

By default, Toad will print its version and authors and await input via `stdin`. For convenience, you can run any of Toad's commands on startup and Toad will exit immediately after that command's execution.

v.3.0.0:

est. +170 STC from 2.0.0

est. +10 STC against Stash v21.2, putting Toad 3.0.0 at roughyl ~2700.

This version includes a lot of new features such as razoring and internal iterative reductions. See the changelog (or, more specifically, this PR) for a full list of improvements.

Thanks again to all who've helped along the way :)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

updated README for 3.0.0 release

Features

major improvements to search logic, several bug fixes, and multiple new search features. (#99) (6eb100f)

updated README for 3.0.0 release (9d92844)

Bug Fixes

hopefully fixed release-please manifest details (6fde085)

removed draw detection at ply 1 (#101) (feb4cc3)

removed release-type from manifest root (76b4d47)

bench: 8515103

Toad 1.4.0 vs other engines:

Elixir 3.0 JA	0/7	-7	7 Games
ChandraChess 2.0	0/7	-7	7 Games
LazySMP 5.0	3/5	+1	5 Games
Ifrit 4.3 JA	2/5	-1	5 Games
CalvinChess 5.0.2	0/5	-5	5 Games
Astra 4.0.1	0/4	-4	4 Games
Critter 1.6a	0/4	-4	4 Games
Knightx 4.2	0/4	-4	4 Games
Belofte 2.1.8 JA	2/3	+1	3 Games
Motsog 19	2/3	+1	3 Games
Bobcat 8.0 JA	0/3	-3	3 Games
Molybdenum 4.1	0/3	-3	3 Games
Skiull 0.6	1.5/2	+1	2 Games
Dual 0.2.6	1.5/2	+1	2 Games
Cfish 13 JA	1/2	+0	2 Games
Prophet 4.4	0.5/2	-1	2 Games
Marauders 4.0	0/2	-2	2 Games
Obsidian 14.0	0/2	-2	2 Games
Obsidian 14.05 SE	0/2	-2	2 Games
PlentyChess 3.0.0 JA	0/2	-2	2 Games
Private19sf	0/2	-2	2 Games

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