Sapling 2.1.0 - new version chess engine

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Sapling, a strong dotnet UCI Chess engine [BETA]. 
Author: Tim Jones  Rating CEDR=3574

Sapling is still in active development so expect certain features to be missing or experimental. Also the current release is using a NNUE net trained from self play starting with random weights and is only 13 iterations deep, expect the engine to be much stronger in the coming days as the training does takes a while.

Requirements
- Sapling makes use of hardware intrinsics to improve performance. Currently your CPU must support: `Avx2`, `Bmi1`, `Bmi2`, `Popcnt`, `Sse`. Most modern hardware shipped after 2013 should be supported.
- The releases come with a bundled version of the dotnet runtime, however if you want to run from source you'll need the dotnet 8 SDK installed.

Sapling - what's new?
Merge pull request #28 from Timmoth/staging

Fixed TC issues

Sapling 2.0.0 vs other engines:

Clockwork 2026102512.5/20+520 Games
DON dev-202610256/20-820 Games
Stockfish dev-202610243.5/20-1320 Games
Stockfish dev-202609223.5/20-1320 Games
Gaia 4.4.23/20-1420 Games
Coda 0.9.53/20-1420 Games
ChesslabNNet97/10+410 Games
Arabica 0.2.07/10+410 Games
Chessenger 3.15.5/10+110 Games
Grail 3.0.05/10+010 Games
Lucky Chess 2.04.5/10-110 Games
Arasan 26.14/10-210 Games
Caissa 2.03/10-410 Games
Tcheran 14.02.5/10-510 Games
PZChessBot 7.12.5/10-510 Games
Ravager 32.5/10-510 Games
Peras 3.6.12.5/10-510 Games
Integral 8 JA2.5/10-510 Games
Stockfish 192/10-610 Games
Stormphrax 8.0.02/10-610 Games
Hlamnick 1810262/10-610 Games





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