Halogen - UCI chess engine. The engine is constantly being developed by the author, and the latest stable version has risen to 15th place in the CEDR rankings. We will be testing this version soon.
Author: Kieren Pearson Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=3694
Halogen 16.7.12 what's new?
- Remove unused ContinuationHistory::cont_hist_depth constant
- Collapse the eight promotion cases in apply_move via a promo_type cast
- Share castle-rights key logic between apply_move and get_fifty_move_adj_key_after
- Reduce the dead king-bucket lazy-update branch to an assert
- Rename assets/LICENCE to assets/LICENSE
Bench: 6926560
Halogen 16 vs other engines:
| Tarnished 5.0 | 15/30 | +0 | 30 games |
| Caissa 1.24 JA | 14.5/26 | +3 | 26 games |
| Pawnocchio 1.9.2 | 13.5/26 | +1 | 26 games |
| Dragon 3.3 | 12.5/26 | -1 | 26 games |
| Quanticade Cronus 3.0 | 12/22 | +2 | 22 games |
| Clover 9.1 JA | 11/22 | +0 | 22 games |
| Viridithas 19.0.1 | 10.5/22 | -1 | 22 games |
| Stockfish 18 JA | 9/20 | -2 | 20 games |
| Reckless 0.9.0 dev-2a847427 | 6.5/16 | -3 | 16 games |
| Bagatur 5.4 | 10.5/12 | +9 | 12 games |
| PZChessBot 6.0 JA | 8.5/12 | +5 | 12 games |
| Motor 0.9.0 | 7/12 | +2 | 12 games |
| Integral 7.0.0 JA | 6/12 | +0 | 12 games |
| Alexandria 8.1.12 | 6/12 | +0 | 12 games |
| Horsie 1.1.0 JA | 6/12 | +0 | 12 games |
| Obsidian dev-16.15 SE | 5.5/12 | -1 | 12 games |
| Berserk 20250606 | 4.5/12 | -3 | 12 games |
| PlentyChess 7.0.55 | 4.5/12 | -3 | 12 games |
| Rebel EAS 3.0 | 6.5/10 | +3 | 10 games |
| DON dev-20260222 | 5/10 | +0 | 10 games |
| Artemis 27TR PrO | 4.5/10 | -1 | 10 games |
All version: https://github.com/KierenP/Halogen/releases/tag/latest
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