Tomcat 1.0

chess engine based on Bobcat 8.0 by Gunnar Harms

https://github.com/Bobcat/bobcat

• code optimizations and eval tuning

development tests (ultra-fast/self-play) indicate about a 45 elo improvement

1 tomcat 008 3059.3 1.5 17763 32347 54.91% +10101,=15324,-6922 34.26 100.0%

2 tomcat 000 3024.7 1.5 14584 32347 45.09% +6922,=15324,-10101

1 tomcat 026 2982.1 1.2 28776 56885 50.59% +15688,=26176,-15021 4.07 100.0%

2 tomcat 025 2977.9 1.2 28109 56885 49.41% +15021,=26176,-15688

1 tomcat 027 2982.5 1.1 33228 65536 50.70% +17269,=31918,-16349 4.88 100.0%

2 vortex 026 2977.5 1.1 32308 65536 49.30% +16349,=31918,-17269

1 tomcat 030 2980.9 0.8 65860 131072 50.25% +35405,=60909,-34758 1.72 98.9%

2 tomcat 029 2979.1 0.8 65213 131072 49.75% +34758,=60909,-35405

I've included the Visual Studio project files (Tomcat.vcxproj, etc)

Norman Schmidt firefather@telenet.be 6/26/2017