Petrel 4.0 JA - new version chess engine


Petrel, about the engine:
The latest version of the Petrel engine has been released, and it recently competed in the CEDR Chess Engine League Group C qualifiers for the 08/2026 season. Finishing in third place, it secured a promotion to Group B.

Author: Aleks Peshkov  Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=3355

Petrel 4.0 what's new?
I expect this version to be stable.

Major strength improvement (and 2.5x NPS drop) by increasing NNUE size (128->1024).
Major NNUE code refactoring.
Small changes in move ordering and history tables.
Minor time management tweaks.
5'714431 tt-writes, 2'457638 tt-hits, 11'501499 tt-reads
25'874848 nodes 17'866877 usec 1'448202 nps

Petrel 3.5 JA vs other engines:

Maestro 1.2.1 JA2/2+22 games
Cadie 2.1 JA1.5/2+12 games
Critter 1.6a1.5/2+12 games
Kociolek 2.1 JA1.5/2+12 games
Monolith 31.5/2+12 games
Jet 1.20.5/2-12 games
Maelstrom 3.3.01/1+11 games
Solo 2.2.0 JA1/1+11 games
Invictus r391 JA1/1+11 games
Flounder 0.5.0.21/1+11 games
Beef 0.3.6 JA1/1+11 games
Fizbo 2 JA1/1+11 games
DanaSah 9.11/1+11 games
Defenchess 2.3 JA0.5/1+01 games
Vajolet2 3.1.00.5/1+01 games
Odonata 1.1.00.5/1+01 games
Svart 6 JA0.5/1+01 games
Frozenight 7.0.0 JA0.5/1+01 games
Drofa 4.1.1 JA0.5/1+01 games
Bit-Genie 9.24 JA0.5/1+01 games
Myrddin 0.96 JA0.5/1+01 games


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