Heimdall 1.5.1 - new version chess engine


HeimdallUCI chess engine written in Nim.
Author: Mattia Giambirtone  Rating CEDR=3644

More info
Heimdall is available on Lichess under its old name (Nimfish), feel free to challenge it! I try to keep the engine running on there always up to date with the changes on the master branch
Github: https://github.com/nocturn9x/heimdall

Heimdall - what's new?

A lot of nitty-gritty performance stuff found by GPT 6 Astra (thanks OpenAI!), a shiny new threat inputs network (many many thanks to @swedishchef for helping me with that!) and a lot of other minor things. Can't really be arsed to write a changelog, nobody reads those anyway. Just read the commits if you're interested!
One important note is that heimdall now releases with universal binaries! I won't claim to have the brains to understand most of the logic that goes into that (I shamelessly vibecoded that part, deal with it), but it should simplify testing quite a bit. See here for details!
Strength
UHO_Lichess_4852_v1.epd
STC
Name  | 1.5.1
Elo   | 36.18 +- 9.32 (95%)
Conf  | 8.0+0.08s Threads=1 Hash=16MB
Games | N: 2014 / 2000 W: 656 L: 447 D: 911
Penta | [16, 196, 400, 353, 42]
https://chess.n9x.co/test/8482/
LTC
Name  | 1.5.1
Elo   | 32.76 +- 8.00 (95%)
Conf  | 40.0+0.40s Threads=1 Hash=64MB
Games | N: 2000 / 2000 W: 585 L: 397 D: 1018
Penta | [3, 171, 474, 339, 13]
Heimdall 1.5.0 vs other engines:
Fritz 2116/32+032 games
Raphael 4.2.08.5/19-219 games
Renegade 1.3.0 JA7.5/19-419 games
Triumviratus 5.07/19-519 games
Rose 1.0.08/17-117 games
Chess System Tal 2.07 E10198/14+214 games
PZChessBot 7.15/12-212 games
Cool Iris 164.5/12-312 games
Viridithas 20.0.04.5/12-312 games
Sapling 1.2.78/11+511 games
Avalanche 3.0.08/11+511 games
Stockfish dev-202606253/10-410 games
Rebel 16.34/8+08 games
Hobbes 2.13/8-28 games
Icarus 1.1 JA2.5/8-38 games
Halogen 16.5.02.5/8-38 games
Clover 9.1 JA2.5/8-38 games
PlentyChess 8.0.02.5/8-38 games
Astra 7.02/8-48 games
Prune 4.0.06/6+66 games
Berserk 14 JA2.5/6-16 games



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