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Scoria - chess engine Author: Ian Nathan Kusmiantoro  After 6 months, I am proud to release Scoria 3, the latest iteration of my chess engine. This version sees an over 600 elo improvement over the previous release, now playing at an estimated ~2000 elo. This time, I have also attached prebuilt binary files (.jar and .exe) for easy integration into any UCI-compliant GUIs. Scoria 4.4.9 what's new? Scoria 4 has finally been released a year after its previous version. Although it has taken a long time, the improvement in performance is well worth it. Highlights BitBoards Scoria has now migrated to bitboards rather than an array based representation, allowing for much faster move generation and board operations which has significantly improved its speed. Optimizations Scoria 4 has finally implemented far more optimizations which were all fine-tuned to create the strongest version of the chess engine. The Evaluator parameters were also tuned using Texel's Tuning Method to give a mo...

Scoria - chess engine Author: Ian Nathan Kusmiantoro  After 6 months, I am proud to release Scoria 3, the latest iteration of my chess engine. This version sees an over 600 elo improvement over the previous release, now playing at an estimated ~2000 elo. This time, I have also attached prebuilt binary files (.jar and .exe) for easy integration into any UCI-compliant GUIs. Disclaimer Scoria_v3.8.51 is a post-release update, meaning the source code files attached to this release are of the older Scoria_v3.8.49. Please use the newer version by either downloading the source files from the current Java branch or downloading the binary files called scoria_v3.8.51.jar or scoria_v3.8.51.exe. Ensure you have downloaded the now official version 3.8.51 and not the older deprecated version 3.8.49, for the best experience. If you wish to download the older version, you may still download the source files from this release, but the original binaries have been deleted. This post-release update b...

Scoria - chess engine Author: Ian Nathan Kusmiantoro  After 6 months, I am proud to release Scoria 3, the latest iteration of my chess engine. This version sees an over 600 elo improvement over the previous release, now playing at an estimated ~2000 elo. This time, I have also attached prebuilt binary files (.jar and .exe) for easy integration into any UCI-compliant GUIs. Disclaimer Scoria_v3.8.51 is a post-release update, meaning the source code files attached to this release are of the older Scoria_v3.8.49. Please use the newer version by either downloading the source files from the current Java branch or downloading the binary files called scoria_v3.8.51.jar or scoria_v3.8.51.exe. Ensure you have downloaded the now official version 3.8.51 and not the older deprecated version 3.8.49, for the best experience. If you wish to download the older version, you may still download the source files from this release, but the original binaries have been deleted. This post-release update b...