Halogen 15.4.3 - new version chess engine




Halogen - UCI chess engine
Author: Kieren Pearson  Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=3685

Halogen 15. what's new?

Elo gaining patches:
Apply 4-ply continuation history for quiet move ordering by @KierenP in #695
Increase RFP margin for positions with active threats that need to be resolved by @KierenP in #696
SPSA LTC tune by @KierenP in #697
Add Continuation Correction History by @KierenP in #698
Threat history should consider all threats, on both from and to square by @KierenP in #699
Include Knight capture Bishop as a threat for threat calculations by @KierenP in #700
Reduce search depth on root fail high by @KierenP in #701
Apply double negative extensions for non-singular cut ndoes by @KierenP in #702
Apply double negative extensions to near multi-cut nodes by @KierenP in #703
SPSA LTC tune by @KierenP in #705
Adjust good loud move margin to -100 by @KierenP in #710
Scale good loud SEE margin by move history by @KierenP in #712
Use AVX512_VBMI2 instructions to speed up movegen by @KierenP in #717
Use compress_epi16 to process 32 blocks of 4 FT activations at once by @KierenP in #719
SPSA LTC tune by @KierenP in #721
Make qsearch detect checkmate positions by @KierenP in #725
Randomize all draw scores by @KierenP in #730
Prefetch TT entries in qsearch by @KierenP in #728
Add ProbCut heuristic by @KierenP in #734
Hoist pinned checks in movegen by @87flowers in #735

Elo gain compared to Halogen 14:
Elo   | 33.74 +- 4.79 (95%)
Conf  | 40.0+0.40s Threads=1 Hash=8MB
Games | N: 5000 W: 1442 L: 958 D: 2600
Penta | [10, 368, 1262, 848, 12]
http://chess.grantnet.us/test/40085/

Halogen 14 vs other engines:

Fritz 2040.5/99-1899 Games
Uralochka 3.42 dev142.5/4+14 Games
Booot 7.42/4+04 Games
Berserk 202506222/4+04 Games
Astra 6.1.12/4+04 Games
Clarity 8.0.0 JA2/4+04 Games
Titan 1.1.02/4+04 Games
Heimdall 1.4.02/4+04 Games
Starzix 6.1 JA2/4+04 Games
Igel 3.6.3 JA2/4+04 Games
RubiChess 20250606 JA2/4+04 Games
Lizard 11.22/4+04 Games
Motor 0.9.02/4+04 Games
Revenge 4.02/4+04 Games
Pawnocchio 1.82/4+04 Games
Alexandria 8.0.0 JA2/4+04 Games
Viridithas 18.0.0 JA1.5/4-14 Games
Integral 7.0.0 JA1.5/4-14 Games
Horsie 1.1.01.5/4-14 Games
Stormphrax 7.0.0 JA1.5/4-14 Games
Clover 8.2 JA1.5/4-14 Games



All version: https://github.com/KierenP/Halogen/releases/tag/latest

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