TRACE 1.37a available...
Posted: 17 Nov 2006, 23:50Get it here...
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~john.boyd/
There's always one more bug...
In 1.37 the bishops' king attack code could infinite loop in some rare cases. That's been fixed now.
Also, I made a little change to passed pawn bonuses...
And, the search is about 3% faster due to a change to hashing of qsearch nodes. That's a massive improvement of maybe 1 elo.
Actually, the change to hashing may prove more helpful than 1 elo because the hash table is no longer getting flooded with so many (almost worthless) zero depth entries.
Thanks to all the testers!! Sorry for the bug!!
Ross and Tracey
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~john.boyd/
There's always one more bug...
In 1.37 the bishops' king attack code could infinite loop in some rare cases. That's been fixed now.
Also, I made a little change to passed pawn bonuses...
And, the search is about 3% faster due to a change to hashing of qsearch nodes. That's a massive improvement of maybe 1 elo.
Actually, the change to hashing may prove more helpful than 1 elo because the hash table is no longer getting flooded with so many (almost worthless) zero depth entries.
Thanks to all the testers!! Sorry for the bug!!
Ross and Tracey