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Subject: Re: Beowulf v2.1

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 11:44:32 10/06/02

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On October 06, 2002 at 13:27:03, Colin Frayn wrote:

>I've finally released a preliminary version of Beowulf v2.1.
>
>It can be found on the official Beowulf site;
>
>http://www.chessbrain.net/beowulf/
>
>I've probably got something wrong, so let me know if it doesn't work.
>
>Hopefully it's noticeably stronger than previous versions.
>
>Cheers,
>Col
>
>-------------------
>Progress since v2.0
>-------------------
>
>Fixed bug with Analyze mode when stepping through castling moves
>Altered board control code
>Added in double null move - noticeable speed increase occasionally
>Altered CM exits on window failures
>Altered Draw handling slightly, mainly during NULL move
>Now resets hash tables properly when board is reset
>Resets hash tables more efficiently, and doesn't use opponent's time.
>Fixed bugs with move ordering.
>Improved search speed, mainly through move ordering and eval tweaks.
>Many Eval tweaks, most importantly fixing pawn majorities.
>Added in infrastructure for distributed version.
>Improved time handling functions to make them more portable.
>Fixed move parsing with castling moves.


Geowulf is a great service to the computer chess world.  Thank you!!



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