Subject: Floyd 0.8 Engine Thu Mar 31, 2016 3:11 pm
Floyd 0.8 Engine
Floyd is a simplistic chess engine used for study purposes. Floyd 0.8 has just been released because after some eval modifications it is much stronger than the previous version.
Main changes: - Gained approximately 150 elo at fast time controls - More attractive playing style, mainly due to evaluation - Improved timecontrol for very fast fames with zero increment
Under the hood: - Recapture extension and single reply extension - Saner evaluation for passers and king attacks - Added pawn/king table to keep speed roughly unchanged - 3x improved precision of built-in benchmark - Removal of needless SAN parser
Sources on github: Download(courtesy Joost for the win64 binary)