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updated README and TODO
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AaronBecker committed Dec 22, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -17,13 +17,7 @@ them all stable before trying to tackle parallel searching. Therefore, the
number of new features is quite long. The most notable are ponder, multipv,
and Chess960 support.

The biggest change from 1.5 to 1.6 is my testing methodology. I'm now testing
all my changes using a statistically significant number of very fast games
against a constant set of opponents. This requires a lot of patience, but it's
really had a positive impact on my results. Several important parameters from
1.5 have been improved as a result of this testing.

Here's the full list of changes:
Here's the list of changes:

* Chess960 support
* MultiPV support
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* Open and half-open file identification
* Pawn storm bonuses
* Improved fidelity to uci specifications
* Revamped move ordering
* Improved time management, and improved behavior at very fast time controls
* Improved search behavior in positions with short mates or obvious moves
* Fixed a bug that caused losses on time in some sudden death situations
* Fixed a bug that prevented a hash size over 2GB
* Fixed a bug that caused crashes in very long games (over 250 moves)
* Fixed a bug that generated incorrect en passant moves while in check
* Fixed a bug that allowed incorrect en passant moves while in check

Thanks to Olivier Deville and Dann Corbit for their help identifying the time
control and hash size bugs, and to everyone who tested version 1.5.

Using Daydreamer
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Search
Better statistics gathering/reporting
Make sure popular GUIs don't misinterpret UCI output
recognize singular replies
prefetching for trans table entries
sign-only SEE
TBB?

shrink trans table entry size
evaluation hashing
OwnBook support for polyglot books
Track pinned pieces in SEE, test for improvement

Interface
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