A huge call out to the Stockfish team for their great work! Without them, McBrain does not exist, period!
Enjoy!
McBrain v9 is an alternative chess engine for the chess connoisseur who appreciates using top chess engines for analysis. It is based on Stockfish 9, hence it will play mostly like Stockfish v9 most of the time. There are certain positions that McBrain will provide analysis that is often overlooked by other engines.
McBrain also works with the Cerebellum book by Thomas Zipproth (Brainfish Author -
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]) . It includes the standard McBrain Uci options, including Limit Strength (Elo) (use Threads set to 1!) , Brute Force , No Null, Fast Play, Tactical and when in analysis mode , it will have the contempt setting off by default, but the user can enable it for white , black or both ( code from Ronald De Man). A new option is that the user can turn the Cerebellum book off and on with via the uci interface via a checkmark, no need to unload or reload the opening book.
Michael
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Please note that ALL of the strength and usability of McBrain is due to the Stockfish team. The Stockfish team is amazing and they work very hard and are very creative in keeping Stockfish the number 1 engine in the world and all their work is done pro bono for you. So if you have extra CPU cycles sitting around the home or business , please consider donating your spare CPU time:
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] It is very easy , you can be on any type of OS, Windows/macOS/Linux and they have scripts that will run the process for you behind the scenes, once setup, simply logon to fishtest and leave your computer on.
MCBrain will be competitive with any engine at time control of 60 seconds and 2 seconds increment or longer. But the main focus of McBrain is for deep analysis in long games, such as those played in correspondence games.
Future releases will be in alignment with the official Stockfish releases generally, however this will be subject to ELO gains or features added by the SF team as determine by me. Generally speaking, a ~30 point Elo, or adding a new feature, such as persistent hash or learning, would qualify as a potential release in McBrain.
Respectfully yours,
Michael Byrne
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