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KnightX 4.8 - new version chess engine (Windows and Linux)



KnightX - UCI/winboard chess engine
Author- Christophe Jolly  Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=2908

KnightXa Chess Engine Communication Protocol compliant chess engine by Christophe Jolly, written in C, and alias and successor of the native Windows program Techno Chess. KnightX, supporting WinBoard, was first published in December 1999, and since 2004, KnightX 1.86 runs under Linux via XBoard. KnightX played the Massy 2003 French Programmers Tournament, and the FCCC 2003 French Computer Chess Championship. After a long break from 2005 with KnightX 1.92, Christophe Jolly had his comeback in February 2019, when he released Knightx 1.93, continuing with subsequent versions. ( source: Chess Programming Wiki).

What has changed in the new version KnightX 4.8?

Futility prunings and history tables improved
Passed pawns evaluation improved
Automatic parameters tuning with more games vs other programs

Knightx 4.7 vs other engines:

Caligula 3.01/5-35 games
Caissa 1.24 JA0/5-55 games
Gyatso 1.0.04/4+44 games
Grail 1.0.01/4-24 games
Prune 3.0.00.5/4-34 games
Prelude 2.10.5/4-34 games
Sturddle 2.4.00.5/4-34 games
Cwtch 40.5/4-34 games
Tcheran 9.00/4-44 games
Eleanor 3.00/4-44 games
Quirky 2.1 JA0/4-44 games
Halogen 15.26.00/4-44 games
Grail 1.0.12/3+13 games
Reckless 0.9.0-dev-c5af2cea0.5/3-23 games
Myrddin 0.940/3-33 games
Reckless 0.9.0 dev-0dd5b9ac0/3-33 games
C4ke 2.00/3-33 games
Cinder 0.4.00/3-33 games
Jackychess 25.12 JA1/2+02 games
JackyChess 25.12 JA1/2+02 games
Chessnix 1.21/2+02 games


KnightX 4.8 - download
homepage:http://technochess.free.fr/index.html

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