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RustyKnight 1.7.1 - new version chess engine




RustyKnight, a simple UCI rust chess engine
Author: Nishu219

RustyKnight is a Rust-based chess engine designed for speed and clarity, implementing solid evaluation heuristics and advanced search techniques. 

RustyKnight 1.7.1 what's new?

Refined search and removal of expensive pawn evaluation for now. Around 15k to 20k NPS increase on Core i5-11260H.
SPRT results over previous version (Time control: 60/20):
Score of RustKnightv1.7.1 vs RustKnightv1.7: 159 - 84 - 357
Elo difference: 43.7 +/- 17.6, LOS: 100.0 %
Number of games = 600





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