Laser 1.5
Roughly 3110 ELO (CCRL 40/4)
Regressions vs. 1.4:
+84 in 8000 games at 3+0.02
+97 in 4000 games at 15+0.05
Major changes from 1.4:
- Multiple bugfixes
- Low depth pruning changes
- Evaluation tuning
- Implement pondering
- This is a preliminary release of pondering, which may not work with GUIs other than Cutechess. Pondering support will continue to improve in future versions.
Three binaries are provided:
- Laser-1_5-BMI2 for Haswell or later processors with BMI2 instruction support
- Laser-1_5 for 64-bit machines with POPCOUNT instruction support
- Laser-1_5-NOPOPCNT for 64-bit machines without POPCOUNT