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Shark 170827bf (has Cerebellum book integrated in exe file.)

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Previous version chess engine Shark   Rating JCER=3312   Shark 170827bf download All files (games, tables and engines) -  download from page

Chess engine: Raubfisch ME262 GTZ15

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Raubfisch is an engine derived from Stockfish and Torpedo 1.1 XJR (private engine by Frank Karl Werner and Max Fehler) Rating JCER - 3341 All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page Raubfisch ME262 GTZ15  - download

Demolito 2017.08.26 (Windows,Linux and Android). New version!

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Demolito - UCI chess engine Author : lucasart About UCI bitboard chess engine written in C++. Plays also chess960. Due to bitwise operation intrinsics this engine only works for SSE4.2 and newer processors. All needed DLLs are included.(Cygwin compile). All files (games, tables and engines) -  download from page Demolito 2017.08.26 - download

Galjoen 0.36.1 - UCI chess engine. New version

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Galjoen  chess engines WB/UCI Homepage Author:  Werner Taelemans Rating JCER = 1809 Galjoen 0.36.1 - download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

ChessBrainVB 3.50 - winboard chess engine. New version

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ChessBrainVB -  winboard chess engine Rating JCER=2564 Author - Roger Zuehlsdorf   ChessBrainVB 3.50 - download

Chess engine: Raubfisch X36

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Raubfisch is an engine derived from Stockfish and Torpedo 1.1 XJR (private engine by Frank Karl Werner and Max Fehler) Rating JCER - 3341 All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page Raubfisch X36 - download

Page JCER League - update

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Page:  JCER League - new links added!

Only for donors added: 49 chess engines and book

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Only for sponsors added 49 chess engines (folder: ChessEnginesFree): asmFish 2017-08-05, asmFish 2017-08-10, asmFish 2017-08-14, BrainFish 170820, CFish 110817, chess22k 1.5, Dimitri 3.61, EnkoChess 030817, EnkoChess 190817, EnkoChess 230817, Ethereal 8.24, gnuchess 6.2.5, Nirvanachess 2.4, Raubfisch ME262 GTZ14e, Raubfisch X35c, Raubfisch X35f, Roc 0.9, RomiChess P3m, ruydos 10082017, sayuri r2017.08.19, SF170810vk_ASM, Sf-Zander.080817, shallow 1.0.2, Shark 170815 bf, stockfish 17081011, stockfish 17081019, stockfish 17081019_Costalba, stockfish 17081019_Costalba2, stockfish 17081019_VandeVondele, stockfish_17081021, stockfish 17081107, stockfish 17081211, stockfish 17081313, stockfish 17081314, stockfish 17081508, stockfish 17081709, stockfish 17081710, stockfish 17081711, stockfish 17081723, stockfish 17081811_x6, stockfish 17081913, stockfish 17081914, stockfish 17082210, stockfish 17082609, stockfish 17082609_Nicolet, stockfish 17082609_VandeVondele, Supra 25.0, ThinksFish.1.0

SugaR XPrO 1.2 wins Super League edition 05/2017, 2017.08.16 - 2017.08.25

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Temp 3' + 3" Hardware: Intel Core i7-4710MQ with 7,9 GB Memory , Windows 10 64-bit 924 Tournament games, GUI- Arena 3.5.1 ,  161.651 JCER games ,  until 31.12.2016   39.509 JCER games (from 01.01.2017)  JCER League Book: Perfect 2017 ,     Games, engines, book - download        Table created - Scid vs PC All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

Stockfish 17082609_VandeVondele - new version!

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Stockfish , chess engine UCI Rating JCER = 3331 🔬 Author: Joost VandeVondele More: Timestamp: 1503734014  Improve multi-threaded mate finding  If any thread found a 'mate in x' stop the search. Previously only  mainThread would do so. Requires the bestThread selection to be  adjusted to always prefer mate scores, even if the search depth is less.  I've tried to collect some data for this patch. On 30 cores, mate finding  seems 5-30% faster on average. It is not so easy to get numbers for this,  as the time to find a mate fluctuates significantly with multi-threaded runs,  so it is an average over 100 searches for the same position. Furthermore,  hash size and position make a difference as well.  Bench: 5965302  ⭐⭐⭐   Stockfish 17082609_ VandeVondele  - download

Chess engine: Zevra 1.6 build 497

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Zevra - Rating JCER=1644  Zevra 1.6 b497 - download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page Author - Oleg Smirnov

Stockfish 17082609_Nicolet - new version!

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Stockfish , chess engine UCI Rating JCER = 3331 🔬 Author: Stéphane Nicolet More: Timestamp: 1503732867  Count all weak squares in the king ring with a single popcount  Passed STC:  LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]  Total: 26966 W: 4993 L: 4745 D: 17228  http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/599e798a0ebc5916ff64aa8c  and LTC:  LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]  Total: 39570 W: 5104 L: 4857 D: 29609  http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/599ee5230ebc5916ff64aabe  Bench: 5965302  ⭐⭐⭐   Stockfish 17082609_Nicolet - download

Chess engine: RomiChess P3m

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Romichess - Winboard chess engine. Author - Michael J. Sherwin RomiChess P3m - download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

Stockfish 17082609 - new version!

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Stockfish , chess engine UCI Leader rating list JCER = 3331 🔬 Author: Joost VandeVondele More: Timestamp: 1503732642  Use moveCount history for reduction  Use less reduction for moves with larger moveCount if your  opponent did an unexpected (== high moveCount) move in the  previous ply... unexpected moves might need unexpected answers.  passed STC:  http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/599f08cc0ebc5916ff64aace  LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]  Total: 9638 W: 1889 L: 1720 D: 6029  passed LTC:  http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/599f1e5c0ebc5916ff64aadc  LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]  Total: 28308 W: 3742 L: 3533 D: 21033  Bench: 5747429  ⭐⭐⭐   Stockfish 17082609 - download

EnkoChess 23.08.2017 - UCI chess engine. New version!

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EnkoChess - UCI engine Homepage Author - Evgeny Silchenko EnkoChess 23.08.2017 - download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

Stockfish 17082210 - new version!

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Stockfish , chess engine UCI Leader rating list JCER = 3331 🔬 Author: Stéphane Nicolet More: Timestamp: 1503389779  Avoid constructing an empty tuple in qsearch  Avoid constructing, passing as a parameter and binding a useless empty tuple of pointers in the qsearch move picker constructor.  Also reformat the scoring function in movepicker.cpp and do some cleaning in evaluate.cpp while there.  No functional change.  ⭐⭐⭐   Stockfish 17082210 - download

Chess engine: Dimitri 3.61

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Dimitri  - winboard chess engine Homepage Author - Luigino Viscione JCER rating=2121 All files (games, tables and engines) -  download from page Dimitri 3.61 - download

Shark 170815 bf wins JCER Test Tournament, 2017.08.21 - 2017.08.23

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Temp 3' + 3" Hardware: Intel Core i3-3217U CPU 3,9 GB Memory , Windows 10 x64 270 Tournament games, GUI- Arena 3.5.1 ,  161.651 JCER games ,  until 31.12.2016   39.509 JCER games (from 01.01.2017)  JCER League Book: Perfect 2017 ,   Table created - Scid vs PC All files (games, tables and engines) -  download from page

Stockfish 17081914 - new version!

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Stockfish , chess engine UCI Leader rating list JCER = 3331 🔬 Author: IIvec More: Timestamp: 1503145951  Fix some Clang warnings  Found by Clang in extra verbose mode :-)  No functional change.  ⭐⭐⭐    Stockfish 17081914 - download

SF170810vk ASM wins JCER Test Tournament, 14-21.08.2017

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Temp 3' + 3" Hardware: Intel Core i3-3217U CPU 3,9 GB Memory , Windows 10 x64 960 Tournament games , GUI- Arena 3.5.1 ,  161.651 JCER games ,  until 31.12.2016   39.509 JCER games (from 01.01.2017)  JCER League Book: Perfect 2017 ,   Table created - Scid vs PC

Stockfish 17081913 - new version!

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Stockfish , chess engine UCI Leader rating list JCER = 3331 🔬 Author: IIvec More: Timestamp: 1503143892  Wide bench coverage  Add tests for:  - Positions with move list  - Chess960 positions  Now bench covers almost all cases, only few endgames are still out of reach (verified with lcov)  It is a non functionality patch, but bench changed because we added new test positions.  bench: 5479946  ⭐⭐⭐   Stockfish 17081913 - download

Chess Engine: BrainFish 170820 and book: Cerebellum Light 170819

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BrainFish  - UCI chess engine Information from the author: Brainfish  is a standard  Stockfish  chess engine extended by a general book format that is capable of handling a reduced part of Cerebellum, which is an innovative chess opening and playing book. In  Brainfish , the book moves are only used in engine games, not in analysis mode. All moves in the published book Cerebellum_light.bin generated by Cerebellum were calculated by using Stockfish as analysis engine, without using statistics. Then those moves where recalulated by the Cerebellum Library using a graph algorithm that makes all scores in the library consistant. Consistant scores means for example, in case the starting position has a score of 0.2 and a best move is 1.e4, the position after 1.e4 must have the score -0.2. Additionally, some others properties are found, like the best main line of a position and possible Transitions. Hence, when  Brainfish  is playing moves that are in the Cerebellum book, it plays li

Stockfish 170818 - 6 compilations!

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Stockfish , chess engine UCI Leader rating list JCER = 3331 🔬 Author: Marco Costalba Stockfish 170818 - 6 compilations download

Shark 170815bf (has Cerebellum book integrated in exe file.)

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Previous version chess engine Shark   Rating JCER=3312   Shark 170815bf download All files (games, tables and engines) -  download from page

Stockfish 17081723 - new version!

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Stockfish , chess engine UCI Leader rating list JCER = 3331 🔬 Author: IIvec More: Timestamp: 1503006142 Time management simplification  STC (http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/598188a40ebc5916ff64a21b): LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00] Total: 25363 W: 4658 L: 4545 D: 16160 LTC (http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5981d59a0ebc5916ff64a229): LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00] Total: 75356 W: 9690 L: 9640 D: 56026 40/10 TC (http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5980c5780ebc5916ff64a1ed): LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00] Total: 19377 W: 3650 L: 3526 D: 12201 15+0 TC (http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5982cb730ebc5916ff64a25d): LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00] Total: 5913 W: 1217 L: 1069 D: 3627 This time management handles base time and movestogo cases separatelly. One can test one case without affecting the other. Also, increment usage can be tested separately without (necessarily) affecting sudden death or x moves in y seconds performance.

Supra 25 - UCI chess engine. New version

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Supra  - UCI chess engines Author : Pedro Mourao Correia    Website Previous version chess engine Supra   Ratings :  JCER =1888 , Supra 25 download    All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

Stockfish 17081711 - new version!

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Stockfish , chess engine UCI Leader rating list JCER = 3331 🔬 Author: Marco Costalba More: Timestamp: 1502960640 Fix involuntary conversions of ExtMove to Move The trick is to create an ambiguity for the compiler in case an unwanted conversion to Move is attempted like in: ExtMove m1{Move(17),4}, m2{Move(4),17}; std::cout << (m1 < m2) << std::endl; // 1 std::cout << (m1 > m2) << std::endl; // 1(!) This fixes issue #1204 No functional change.  ⭐⭐⭐   Stockfish 17081711 - download

Sayuri 2017.08.19 - new version chess engine UCI

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Sayuri  - UCI chess engine Author - Hironori Ishibashi         Sayuri previous versions Rating JCER=1748 ⏭ Sayuri 2017.08.19 download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

Stockfish 17081710 - new version!

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Stockfish , chess engine UCI Leader rating list JCER = 3331 🔬 Author: Marco Costalba More: Timestamp: 1502959946 Unify stats update() Now that is a bit bigger makes sense to unify some duplicated code. No functional change.  ⭐⭐⭐   Stockfish 17081710 - download

Chess engine: Roc 0.9 (derived from Gull 3)

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Roc  is a new chess engine, derived from  Gull 3 .  Author: Demichev/Hyer Rating JCER=3048 Roc 0.9 - download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

Stockfish 17081709 - new version!

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Stockfish, chess engine UCI Leader rating list JCER = 3331 🔬 Author: Lucasart More: Timestamp: 1502955164  Use int16_t in History values  Reduces memory footprint by ~1.2MB (per thread).  Strong pressure: small but mesurable gain  LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]  Total: 258430 W: 46977 L: 45943 D: 165510  Low pressure: no regression  LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]  Total: 73542 W: 13058 L: 13026 D: 47458  Strong pressure + LTC: elo gain confirmed  LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]  Total: 31489 W: 4532 L: 4295 D: 22662  Tested for crashing on overflow and after 70K  games at STC we have only 4 time losses,  possible candidate for an overflow.  No functional change.  ⭐⭐⭐   Stockfish 17081709 - download

Ethereal 8.24 - UCI chess engine (for Windows and Android). New version!

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Ethereal  - UCI chess engine Rating JCER=2411 Author - Andy Grant Ethereal 8.24 - download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page

EnkoChess 19.08.2017 - UCI chess engine. New version!

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EnkoChess  - UCI engine Homepage Author - Evgeny Silchenko EnkoChess 19.08.2017 - download All files (games, tables and engines) - download from page