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Subject: Re: Arasan 7.4

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 18:15:37 02/28/04

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On February 28, 2004 at 17:12:46, Jon Dart wrote:

>Arasan 7.4 has been released and is available from http://www.arasanchess.org.
>
>This is pretty close to the same engine that played in CCT6. I have made some
>opening book changes and a few fixes since then, but mostly in the user
>interface, not the engine.
>
>Changes in Arasan 7.4:
> 1) King safety and knight centrality scoring fixes (knight centrality
>    was actually backwards - White table was used for Black).
> 2) Speed improvement: routine wouldCheck handles more cases, allowing
>    more cases of forward pruning before doMove.
> 3) Fix GUI bug re "hint" being given for the wrong side.
> 4) Fix GUI bug: next/previous game could crash if engine reply comes
>    after the command.
> 5) Fix GUI bug: takeback while engine is searching could sometimes
>    result in pieces changing color and other strange behavior.
> 6) GUI: Fix some BoundsChecker errors/warnings.
> 7) A new "options.book_enabled" flag is in arasan.rc: setting this
>    false disables the opening book.
> 8) Fix Linux spec file so it can build a binary RPM correctly.
> 9) Linux version installs to /usr/local/bin, not /usr/bin
>
>--Jon

Thanks Jon!



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