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v5.0.0
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This release provides new engine features (e.g. MultiPV analysis) and a small strength increase 馃巻

Estimated strength increase: ~ 30 Elo

Changes

  • Add support for MultiPV analysis
  • Add support for UCI "go mate ..." command
  • Add support for UCI "go searchmoves ..." command
  • Improved training set generator and NN trainer
  • New neural network based upon 4.1.0 self-play training data
  • Some minor search improvements
  • Some minor optimizations
  • Update to latest Rust version (1.66.0)

Due to the lack of an ARM-based (Apple Silicon) computer, the new "apple-silicon" builds are untested.

Installation

The chess engine is available for Windows and Linux and requires a 64 Bit CPU.
There are optimized executables available for different CPU micro-architecture generations.

Starting with Velvet v4.1.0 there are also builds for macOS provided.
Currently there are no specific optimizations for the ARM-based/Apple Silicon builds implemented, so
the macOS builds for x86_64 might be faster.

If you have a relatively modern CPU (2013+) with AVX2 support, then the ...-x86_64-avx2 executable is highly recommended for best performance.

Executable Description Min. CPU Generation Required Instruction Sets
x86_64-avx2 Recommended for best performance on a modern CPU Intel Haswell / Zen1 AVX2, BMI1
x86_64-sse4-popcnt Lower performance, recommended for CPUs without AVX2 support Intel Nehalem / AMD Bulldozer SSE4.2, SSE3, POPCNT
x86_64-nopopcnt Lowest performance, but compatible with most x86_64 CPUs --- SSE2, CMOV
apple-silicon Native builds for Apple Silicon processors (ARM aarch64) Apple M1
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