KnightX 5.0 - new version chess engine (Windows and Linux)

KnightX - UCI/winboard chess engine
Author- Christophe Jolly  Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=2856

KnightX, a 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?

Neural network evaluation using the Cerebrum library of David Carteau.

The executable uses the AVX2 instructions set (Intel processors since 2013, AMD processors since 2015). The archive also contains an executable that doesn't use theses instructions.

The NN was trained without using position evaluations from other programs.

Knightx 4.7 vs other engines:

Caligula 3.0	1/5	-3	5 games
Caissa 1.24 JA	0/5	-5	5 games
Gyatso 1.0.0	4/4	+4	4 games
Grail 1.0.0	1/4	-2	4 games
Prune 3.0.0	0.5/4	-3	4 games
Prelude 2.1	0.5/4	-3	4 games
Sturddle 2.4.0	0.5/4	-3	4 games
Cwtch 4	0.5/4	-3	4 games
Tcheran 9.0	0/4	-4	4 games
Eleanor 3.0	0/4	-4	4 games
Quirky 2.1 JA	0/4	-4	4 games
Halogen 15.26.0	0/4	-4	4 games
Grail 1.0.1	2/3	+1	3 games
Reckless 0.9.0-dev-c5af2cea	0.5/3	-2	3 games
Myrddin 0.94	0/3	-3	3 games
Reckless 0.9.0 dev-0dd5b9ac	0/3	-3	3 games
C4ke 2.0	0/3	-3	3 games
Cinder 0.4.0	0/3	-3	3 games
Jackychess 25.12 JA	1/2	+0	2 games
JackyChess 25.12 JA	1/2	+0	2 games
Chessnix 1.2	1/2	+0	2 games

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