Developer(s) | Robert Houdart |
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Initial release | May 15, 2010; 9 years ago |
Stable release | |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
Type | Chess engine |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm |
Version | Release date | Features[4] |
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1.0 | May 15, 2010 | First release |
1.01 | June 1, 2010 | Bug fixes, improved search algorithm |
1.02 | June 18, 2010 | SMP and hash collision bug fixes. Work-around for Shredder GUI. |
1.03 | July 15, 2010 | Multi-PV, searchmove and large page support. Improved evaluation function. |
1.03a | July 17, 2010 | Bug fix for Multi-PV |
1.5 | December 15, 2010 | Improved search and evaluation. Gaviota Table Base Support. |
1.5a | January 15, 2011 | Maintenance update with work-arounds for Fritz GUI and other minor improvements. |
2.0 | September 1, 2011 | First commercial release. Improved analysis capabilities, enhanced search and evaluation. Houdini Pro version for high-end users with powerful hardware (multi-core support). Chess960 support. Strength limit feature. Position learning. Save hash to file, load hash from file, never clear hash. |
2.0b | November 7, 2011 | Maintenance update with minor bug corrections and Nalimov EGTB support. |
2.0c | November 20, 2011 | Maintenance update with minor bug corrections and new analysis options. MultiPV_cp option to limit multi-PV analysis to moves within a range of the best move. FiftyMoveDistance option to make the 50-move rule kick in earlier. UCI_Elo and UCI_LimitStrength options as UCI standard-compliant alternative to Strength option. Exit on detection with GUI exit. |
3.0 | October 15, 2012 | Major new version. Improved search and evaluation (+50 Elo), Tactical Mode, Scorpio bitbases, accelerated Principal Variation Search 'Smart Fail-High', optimized hash usage. |
4.0 | November 25, 2013 | Major new version. Improved search and evaluation (+50 Elo), 6-men Syzygy table bases (coding provided by Ronald de Man) |
5.0 | November 7, 2016 | Major new version, about 200 Elo stronger. Rewritten evaluation function, deeper search. |
5.01 | November 15, 2016 | Maintenance update with some interface corrections and improvements. |
6.0 | Major new version. Improved search and evaluation (+50-60 Elo), enhanced multi-threading. | |
6.01 | September 24, 2017 | Maintenance update with Nalimov EGTB correction and new output option. |
6.02 | October 1, 2017 | Maintenance update with Polyglot book support. |
6.03 | November 20, 2017 | Correction for incorrect detection of stalemate in positions with white pawn capture moves. |
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