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16.11.2009 Tornado 3.42a bug fixed!

a minor bug in en passant move with doing in null move that was not stored ep square and fifty move count.



07.11.2009 Tornado 3.42 released!

main changes:

Book:
- new big book from near 2 million games generated, new book format, don't use older books from 3.21a !
- you can also add more games in to the main book
- make book now very fast, with dynamic allocate memory and hashing keys, limit to 5 million games for 64 bit, and 1 million games for 32 bit
- book for chess960 removed, because there are not much games to generate a good book.

others:
- a lot of changes and bugfixes in search ,eval, time, move generation, next move, and many others minor stuff, can't listing all here.

direct download Tornado 3.42 ( from date 07.11.2009 )

 

01.10.2009 Tornado 3.21a released!

main changes:

- tornado was stay after the game if using with more then 1cpu in the memory, this was also fixed.
- timecontrol management changed
- eval endgame weights changed
- SMP search changed

download Tornado 3.21a ( from date 26.09.2009 )


 

12.08.2009 Tornado 3.19a test tournament

I made a test tournament on my own mashine with the shredder classic GUI and 5+2 time control, Tornado 3.19a take the 3rd place under some strong engines.

details on test tournament page



10.08.2009 Tornado 3.19a released!

main changes:

- smp bug fixed, that crashed sometime if using more then 1cpu
- smp bug fixed, that crashed also by access to EGTBs

direct download Tornado 3.19a