v1.4.0
This release contains many small improvements, but the largest ELO gain came from the new mobility evaluation 🤸
The Web App version of Wasabi Chess can be played here.
Changes
- Add mobility evaluation
- UCI: output mate distance as score when a mate was found
- Evaluation: provide bonus for pawns covering pawns and knights
- Adjust piece and move ordering values
- Slightly increase LMR threshold
- Simplify and tune futility margin calculation
- Directly jump to quiescence search for futile positions at depth 1
Installation
- Download and unpack the archive for your platform (Linux or Windows 8/10)
- Configure your UCI client (e.g. PyChess, Arena, cutechess)
- … on Windows ⇒ to run wasabi.cmd
- … on Linux ⇒ to run wasabi
⚠️ the bundled WAVM runtime is not compatible with Windows 7 - a workaround is described in the Wiki