July 30, 2010

Arasan played in the 4th annual World Computer Chess Rapid Championship. I used a dual Nehalem quad (8 cores total) for the tournament. Arasan scored 10th out of 19 (see here for some annotated games). This wasn't Arasan's best performance, although it did win a couple nice games. Mid-way throught the tourney I took out the history pruning code I had recently added, which I suspect was related to the endgame it lost against AlmondX. I have also since made a couple of other fixes.

I plan to make the latest version (12.0) available soon.