Since you’re here...

We hope you will consider supporting us today. We need your support to continue to exist, because good entries are more and more work time. Every reader contribution, however big or small, is so valuable. Support "Chess Engines Diary" even a small amount– and it only takes a minute. Thank you.
============================== My email: jotes@go2.pl



PZChessBot 2.0 JA - new version chess engine



PZChessBot is a basic negamax engine.
Author: Kevin Lu 

v.2.0 What's Changed

bench: 120629 add lmr to main by @kevlu8 in #33
Add output buckets to NNUE by @kevlu8 in #34
bench: 299703 tune network on .65 wdl by @kevlu8 in #35
bench: 309079 fully retrain network with low wdl by @kevlu8 in #36
bench: 273173 add history by @kevlu8 in #37
bench: 273173 Switch to proper move ordering scheme by @kevlu8 in #38
bench: 273173 add pv printing by @kevlu8 in #40
bench: 184778 add counter-move history by @kevlu8 in #41
bench: 96074 add IIR by @kevlu8 in #42
Fix 50-move rule handling - also fixes a part of illegal PV by @kevlu8 in #43
Add reverse futility pruning by @kevlu8 in #44
bench: 63404 disable nmp when pieces < 8 by @kevlu8 in #45
Add EGNN evaluation for positions under 12 pieces by @kevlu8 in #47
Prevent storing of the same killer move by @kevlu8 in #48
bench: 192920 fix pvs pv issue, also partially fixing low nps issue by @kevlu8 in #50
Should be around 3100 strength... I forgot to release so this is long overdue but its ok!


PzChessBot 20250311T07 JA vs other engines:
Melsh Bot 1.0 JA3/4+24 Games
Maello 0.1 JA1/4-24 Games
Critter 1.6a0/4-44 Games
Rodent IV 0.33 JA0/4-44 Games
Princhess 0.20 JA0/4-44 Games
Perseus 1.0 JA0/4-44 Games
Seawall 20250322 JA0/4-44 Games
Renegade 1.1.98 JA0/4-44 Games
Chesslib 0.0.3 JA0.5/3-23 Games
Victoria 0.1 JA2/2+22 Games
Ultrabrick dev.bd5adb0 JA2/2+22 Games
Gravy 1.0 JA2/2+22 Games
Kopyto 0.1.0 JA1/2+02 Games
Meltdown 0.1 JA0.5/2-12 Games
Limbobot 0.1 JA0/2-22 Games
Chess-3 JA0/2-22 Games
Cinder 0.1.3 JA0/2-22 Games
Dumb 2.30/2-22 Games
PlentyChess 5.0.00/2-22 Games
Quanticade Fenrir 1.0 JA0/2-22 Games
Shallow Guess 0.1.0 JA0/2-22 Games

Windows/Linux & Android profiled builds - Jim Ablett compiles:

Successes of the PZChessBot engine in our tournaments:


Comments