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New version chess engine: Clover 8.2.1


Clover - UCI chess engine
Author: Luca Metehau Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=3670

v.8.2.1:
Bugfix release! FRC flag wasn't being read, so Clover actually didn't play FRC, silly me.

v.8.2:
Hello again, after a long time! New version is here, mostly search improvements and just making code cleaner. I'm quite unable to train any new net soon, hence I thought I could release now, before next release, which will have a new net for sure, but also because I'm bored of just search patches.

On an unbalanced book, improvements are around 25-30 elo at LTC.

Have fun with Clover and please report any bugs!

Clover 8.1.16 vs other engines:

Motor 0.9.011.5/22+122 Games
Berserk 2025060611/22+022 Games
RubiChess 2025052011/21+121 Games
Stockfish 17.19.5/19+019 Games
Starzix 6.1 JA9/19-119 Games
Fritz 2010/18+218 Games
Horsie 1.1.09.5/18+118 Games
Caissa 1.22 JA9/18+018 Games
Alexandria 8.0.0 JA9/18+018 Games
PlentyChess 6.0.0 JA6.5/15-215 Games
Integral 7.0.0 JA6.5/14-114 Games
RubiChess 20250606 JA6/12+012 Games
Obsidian dev-16.086/12+012 Games
Omega 6-M6/12+012 Games
SF PB 0306255.5/12-112 Games
Obsidian dev-16.075/11-111 Games
SF-PRO202.05.20255/10+010 Games
DarkSeid 6.04.5/10-110 Games
PlentyChess 6.0.04.5/9+09 Games
BlackFish 2705254.5/9+09 Games



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