Chess Engines Diary

Crystallite  Crystallite is a UCI chess engine derived from Stockfish. Crystallite is a simple modification of an old Crystal 3.1 by Joseph Ellis. Crystallite is made especially for fortress positions. It recognizes them better than Crystal 3.1, Crystal 3.2 and Crystal 4.0. Crystallite 1.1a is the same engine as Crystallite 1.1 but it is faster: AVX2 (+4.3%), BMI2 (+5.8%), modern (+1.6%). The exception is base engine, where old 1.1 turned out to be faster than 1.1a by 7.5%, so this version remains unchanged. Crystallite 1.1a - Rating CEDR=3314 Individual statistics: Crystallite 1.1 - 44 games (+ 10,= 27,-  7), 53.4 % Lc0 0.28.0                    :   2 (+  1,=  1,-  0), 75.0 % Fisherov 0.98h                :   4 (+  0,=  3,-  1), 37.5 % Blue Marlin 14.4a             :   2 (+  0,=  1,-...

Crystallite is a simple modification of an old Crystal 3.1 by Joseph Ellis. Crystallite is made especially for fortress positions. It recognizes most fortress positions really well, better than Crystal 3.1 and Crystal 3.2. Crystallite 1.1 download