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Best chess engine: Stockfish 16103013. New version!

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Stockfish  - chess engines UCI Previous version chess engine Stockfish   Author compilation -  Stefan Geschwentner         Information on the compilation: Timestamp: 1477831683  Bonus for attacked passed pawn promotion path  Bonus for each attacked square on the promotion path  of an enemy passed pawn.  STC:  LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]  Total: 141511 W: 25295 L: 24579 D: 91637  LTC:  LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]  Total: 23161 W: 3022 L: 2831 D: 17308  Bench: 5926706  Stockfish 16103013  - download

Crochess2 wins JCER Amateur League G, edition 02/2016, 2016.10.26 - 2016.10.31

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Temp 3' + 3" Hardware: Intel Core i3-3217U CPU @ 1.80GHz with 3,9 GB Memory , Windows 10 64-bit 870 tournament games download, GUI- Arena 3.5.1 ,   146.625 JCER games download , Book:  Perfect 2016 , Table created -  Scid vs PC All files (games, tables and engines) -  download from page

Best chess engine: Stockfish 16102706_vande2. New version!

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Stockfish  - chess engines UCI Previous version chess engine Stockfish   Author compilation -  Joost VandeVondele        Information on the compilation: Timestamp: 1477543481  Fix a series of undefined behaviours  Avoid shifting negative signed integers and use typed  enum to avoids decrementing a variable beyond its defined  range, like:  for (Rank r = RANK_8; r >= RANK_1; --r)  Changes were tested individually and passed SPRT[-3, 1].  With this patch gcc --sanitize builds cleanly.  No functional change.  Stockfish 16102706_vande2  - download

Isa 1.9.8 - winboard chess engine

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Isa - winboard chess engine About engine: Isa is a chess engine I developp during my free time. Chess programming is my hobby since the 80's years. I started developing with QuickBasic 4.5 (I wrote a weak engine named Bishop) . Then I learned the C langage and studed the TSCP source code (like everyone I think) . « Titan » and « DCP » (DCP = Titan + winboard protocol) was born . Strengh was always so weak , around 1400 elo . After that I rewrote again my engine and Jars came out (I released Jars) and then Yoda (both played around 1800-1900 elo. After finding dificult to improve , I stopped working on both engines and started to work on Isa , a diferent way. I started Isa from Firstchess.c source. Author - Daniel Anulliero Isa 1.9.8 - download All files (games, tables and engines) -  download from page

Best chess engine: Stockfish 16102706_vande. New version!

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Stockfish  - chess engines UCI Previous version chess engine Stockfish   Author compilation -  Joost VandeVondele        Information on the compilation: Timestamp: 1477542564  travis-ci: Enable undefined behavior checking  Stockfish 16102706_vande  - download

Crafty 25.2 - winboard engines. New version!

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Crafty  - winboard chess engines Author - Robert Hyatt (USA) JCER=2769    Crafty 25.2 download from page

Best chess engine: Stockfish 16102706. New version!

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Stockfish  - chess engines UCI Previous version chess engine Stockfish   Author compilation -   syzygy       Information on the compilation: Timestamp: 1477542382  Output PV if last iteration does not complete  Instead of outputting "info nodes ... time ..." when the last  iteration is interrupted, simply call UCI::pv() to output the PV.  I thought about calling UCI:pv() with bounds -VALUE_INFINITE, VALUE_INFINITE  to avoid "lowerbound" or "upperbound" appearing in it, but I'm not sure that  would be any better.  This patch fixes rare inconsistencies between the first move of  the last PV output and the bestmove played. It also makes sure  that all the latest statistics are sent to the GUI (not only nodes  and time but also nps, tbhits, hashfull).  No functional change.  Stockfish 16102706  - download

Chess engine: Bearded neural v44.5

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Bearded neural - winboard chess engine Homepage Author - Mariusz Marszałkowski Bearded neural v44.5 - download

Very strong chess engine: Stockfish 16102506_nicolet New version!

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Stockfish  - chess engines UCI Previous version chess engine Stockfish   Author compilation -   Stéphane Nicolet        Information on the compilation: Timestamp: 1477371449  Endgame malus for having a king in a pawnless flank  Original idea by "ElbertoOne", while "FauziAkram" suggested to put a  small midgame penalty too.  STC:  LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]  Total: 71808 W: 13038 L: 12610 D: 46160  LTC:  LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]  Total: 150874 W: 19828 L: 19221 D: 111825  Bench: 6077005  Stockfish 16102506_nicolet  - download

Andscacs 0.88 - UCI chess engine

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Andscacs  - UCI chess engine    Author -  Daniel Jose Queralto JCER rating old version:  = 3112   Andscacs 0.88 download All files (games, tables and engines) -  download from page

Very strong chess engine: Stockfish 16102506. New version!

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Stockfish  - chess engines UCI Previous version chess engine Stockfish   Author compilation -   VoyagerOne       Information on the compilation: Timestamp: 1477370659  History Stat Comparison  Adjust LMR by comparing history stats  with opponent (prior ply).  STC:  LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]  Total: 27754 W: 5066 L: 4824 D: 17864  LTC:  LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]  Total: 216596 W: 28157 L: 27343 D: 161096  Bench: 5437729  Stockfish 16102506  - download

First test chess engine: Texel 1.07a6

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P Engine Jcer Score *****  Chg +/-/= 1: Texel 1.07a6 2990 51.0 / 100 ===10=1=0==1=10==10==0==00=101==1======1====0111== ==0=01===========0=====1==============0===011===== +10 (+16 -14 =70) 2: Texel 1.06  2990 49.0 / 100 ===01=0=1==0=01==01==1==11=010==0======0====1000== ==1=10===========1=====0==============1===100===== -10 (+14 -16 =70) Temp 3' + 3" Hardware: Intel Core i7-4710MQ CPU @ 2.50GHz with 7,9 GB Memory , Windows 10 64-bit 100 tournament games download, GUI- Arena 3.5.1 ,  141.379 JCER games download ,  Book: Perfect 2016 , Table created - Scid vs PC  All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

Taltos r99 - new chess engine (winboard)

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Taltos - winboard chess engine Author - Gábor Buella Talos :  C source (Linux64 and Windows) e xperimental chess engine for learning and fun. Taltos r99 - download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

Pigeon 1.51 - UCI chess engine (Windows and Linux). New version!

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Pigeon  - UCI chess engine   Author: Stuart Riffle   homepage   Rating JCER=1388 About version 1.51 : Fixed timing logic under 40/4 and 40/25 time controls (thanks to Graham Banks for pointing out the error!) Fixed delay when setting a new position at the start of a move. All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page Pigeon 1.51 download  

New chess engine: Rasher 0.1 alpha

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Author -  Morten Lohne Rasher 0.1 alpha - download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

Neurone XXV - winboard chess engine. New version

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Neurone   - winboard chess engines Neurone website   Author :  Lissandrello Luca Neurone XXV download   All files (games, tables and engines) -  download from page

Andscacs 0.87.215 - UCI chess engine

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Andscacs  - UCI chess engine    Author -  Daniel Jose Queralto JCER rating old version:  = 3112 ,   Andscacs 0.87.215 download All files (games, tables and engines) -  download from page

Scid vs PC - chess database application. New version 4.17

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SCID  - " Shane's Chess Information Database " is a huge chess toolkit with extensive database analysis and chess-playing features. Scid vs. PC  is a usability and bug-fix fork of Scid. It has extensive interface fixes and improvements, and is fully compatible with Scid's .si4 databases. It's new features include a totally rewitten Gamelist, a Computer Tournament, and FICS, Tree and Book improvements. New and Improved Features Overhauled and customizable interface.  Engine versus engine computer tournaments.  Extra search features, including move, end-of-game, and stalemate/checkmate searches.  Drag+Drop file opens for Windows and Linux.  Rewritten Gamelist widget with convenient context menus and buttons, and integrated Database Switcher.  Improved Computer Game and FICS features, including premove, and simultaneous observed games.  Many chess engine improvements, including max-ply option, an unlimited number of engines running, and the function

Ethereal 7.78 wins JCER Amateur League F, edition 02/2016, 2016.10.21 - 2016.10.26

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Temp 3' + 3" Hardware: Intel Core i3-3217U CPU @ 1.80GHz with 3,9 GB Memory , Windows 10 64-bit 720 tournament games download, GUI- Arena 3.5.1 ,   146.625 JCER games download ,  Book:  Perfect 2016 , Table created -  Scid vs PC All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

New winboard chess engine: Jacksprat 1.0 r2 (Windows and Linux)

Author : Joshua Scholar Winboard chess engine written in C++ in a single file. Jacksprat 1.0 r2  - download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

UCI chess engine: Alcibiades 0.1 r1374

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Alcibiades - UCI chess engine Author : Evgeni Pandurski Alcibiades 0.1 r1374 - download All files (games, tables and engines) -  download from page

Texel 1.07a6 - UCI Chess engine. New version

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Texel  - UCI Chess engines Author - Peter Osterlund Previous version chess engine Texel   Rating JCER=2990  Texel 1.07a6 download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

K2 0.87 - UCI chess engine. New version!

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K2  - UCI chess engines Author - Sergey Meus  Previous version chess engine K2   Rating    JCER  older versions=2367 K2 0.87 download

WyldChess 22.10.2016 - winboard chess engine

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WyldChess  - winboard chess engine Author - Mk-Chan Overview A free chess engine in C. It does not provide a GUI (Graphical User Interface) but can be linked to one that supports the Xboard/Winboard protocol. The 32-bit and 64-bit executables are available in the binaries folder. Alternatively, WyldChess can be compiled using Cygwin or MinGW (Samples available in makefile). WyldChess 22.10.2016 - download

Ghost 3 (beta 20161015) - winboard chess engine. New version!

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Ghost  - winboard chess engine Homepage ghost Author - Philipp Claßen Ghost 3 (beta 20161015) - download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

Crafty 25.1 PO (Peter Österlund builds) - winboard engines. New version!

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Crafty  - winboard chess engines Author - Robert Hyatt (USA) JCER=2769    Crafty 25.1 PO download from page