Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Nirvanachess 2.0

What is new in this release?


  • A complete rewrite of the engine
    • Now uses bitboards instead of a 10x12 board representation 
      • Improves the speed of the evaluation function
    • Fixed multiple bugged located in the old evaluation function's code
      • In particular backward pawns were completely incorrectly calculated
    • Improved King safety
      • Now considers safe checks against the king when calculating attacks
    • Piece threats
      • Hanging pieces are now penalized
    • Now supports multiple cores.
      • Lazy implementation threads only communicate via the hash table.
    • Approximately 100 elo stronger than version 1.8 on a single core.

Download Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/5004wcpixd03f5d/Nirvanachess_2.0.rar