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Obsidian 16.15 SE - new version strong chess engine



Obsidian, an UCI chess engine written in c++
Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=3738

v.16:
This new version includes a few search patches and a new NNUE architecture, finally with layers.
I dropped support for pre-AVX2, but I might add it back if requested to.
For testers: if you tested 14.24, don't test 15.0, they are exactly the same.

Obsidian 15.0 vs 14.0 (LTC)

Elo   | 27.21 +- 4.01 (95%)
Conf  | 40.0+0.40s Threads=1 Hash=128MB
Games | N: 7012 W: 2009 L: 1461 D: 3542
Penta | [7, 576, 1796, 1116, 11]

Obsidian 16.14 vs - other engines:

Berserk 2025062268/135+1135 Partii
Stockfish 17.155/115-5115 Partii
Integral 7.0.0 JA57.5/114+1114 Partii
Stormphrax 7.0.0 JA46.5/84+984 Partii
Motor 0.9.042.5/75+1075 Partii
Caissa 1.22.140/75+575 Partii
Horsie 1.1.042.5/73+1273 Partii
RubiChess 20250606 JA32.5/57+857 Partii
Alexandria 8.1.0 JA28/56+056 Partii
PlentyChess 6.0.1827/54+054 Partii
SF-PRO2 02.05.202525/50+050 Partii
PlentyChess 6.0.5 JA25/48+248 Partii
Caissa 1.23 JA24/46+246 Partii
Reckless 0.8.023.5/46+146 Partii
Alexandria 8.0.0 JA23/46+046 Partii
Yuliana 7.021/42+042 Partii
Clarity 8.0.0 JA27/40+1440 Partii
Artemis 17TR19/38+038 Partii
Titan 1.1.023/36+1036 Partii
Uralochka 3.42 dev1419/34+434 Partii
Dragon 3.318/34+234 Partii
Arasan 25.2 JA19/33+533 Partii
DarkSeid 6.2 EE16/32+032 Partii
Viridithas 18.0.016/30+230 Partii
Artemis 17.2TR sl15/30+030 Partii
Stockfish dev-2025062915/30+030 Partii
Kookaburra 3.1014/30-230 Partii
Clover 8.2 JA17.5/28+728 Partii
Viridithas 18.0.0-dev15/28+228 Partii
Sirius 9.020.5/26+1526 Partii
Pawnocchio 1.819/26+1226 Partii
Viridithas 18.0.0 JA15/26+426 Partii
Astra 6.1.114.5/24+524 Partii
Integral 7 dev.322b JA12/24+024 Partii
PlentyChess 6.0.212/24+024 Partii
Starzix 6.1 JA12.5/23+223 Partii
Altair 7.2.1 JA15/22+822 Partii
Uralochka 3.42 dev1313/22+422 Partii
Halogen 13.10.013/22+422 Partii
Clover 9.1 JA11.5/22+122 Partii
Yuliirma 5.011/22+022 Partii
Artemis 17.3TR sl10.5/22-122 Partii
Pawn 4.015/20+1020 Partii


Neural network
Obsidian evaluates positions with a neural network trained on Lc0 data.




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