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Clockwork dev-20260530 - new version chess engine


Clockwork - UCI chess Engine
Author: The Clockwork team

This is the latest version of the Clockwork engine. It is currently competing in the qualifying rounds of the TOP-64 Chess Engine League, where it scored 5.5/11 in the February 2026 edition. Although subsequent versions are getting stronger, the next edition in March 2026 is expected to be more successful.

Clockwork dev-20260530 what's new?

King Threats (#406)

Passed STC:
```
Test  | kingthreats
Elo   | 4.20 +- 2.79 (95%)
SPRT  | 8.0+0.08s Threads=1 Hash=16MB
LLR   | 2.97 (-2.94, 2.94) [0.00, 3.00]
Games | N: 22150 W: 6097 L: 5829 D: 10224
Penta | [348, 2566, 5001, 2790, 370]
```
<https://ob.cwchess.org/test/1461/>

Passed LTC:
```
Test  | kingthreats
Elo   | 14.11 +- 5.30 (95%)
SPRT  | 40.0+0.40s Threads=1 Hash=64MB
LLR   | 2.95 (-2.94, 2.94) [0.00, 3.00]
Games | N: 4878 W: 1337 L: 1139 D: 2402
Penta | [29, 498, 1199, 672, 41]
```
<https://ob.cwchess.org/test/1462/>

Bench: 14730068


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