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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
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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.
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revoking Houdini's championship results, and disallowing Houdini from competing. Leaked source code has seemingly been shown to produce almost identical play to Houdini 5.0 and Houdini 6.0, while containing direct references to Stockfish in the code documentation.
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Houdini 5.0 and Houdini 6.0 have been alleged to be Stockfish 8 derivatives without providing the sources on request, and thus, violating the GPL license. This has resulted in
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Major new version. Improved search and evaluation (+50 Elo), Tactical Mode, Scorpio bitbases, accelerated Principal Variation Search "Smart Fail-High", optimized hash usage.
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Major new version. Improved search and evaluation (+50 Elo), 6-men Syzygy table bases (coding provided by Ronald de Man)
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only supports up to 8 processor cores, 4 GB of hash and is not NUMA-aware. As with many other
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Houdini has had a history of allegations against it that it contains code from other engines.
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Correction for incorrect detection of stalemate in positions with white pawn capture moves.
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Major new version. Improved search and evaluation (+50-60 Elo), enhanced multi-threading.
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Major new version, about 200 Elo stronger. Rewritten evaluation function, deeper search.
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Maintenance update with work-arounds for Fritz GUI and other minor improvements.
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TCEC Houdini - Rybka Match 2011 · Queen Pawn Game: London System (D02) · 1–0
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Multi-PV, searchmove and large page support. Improved evaluation function.
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Maintenance update with minor bug corrections and Nalimov EGTB support.
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Maintenance update with Nalimov EGTB correction and new output option.
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Maintenance update with some interface corrections and improvements.
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On 20 July 2021, the Stockfish team announced legal action against
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alleging that Houdini 6 and Fat Fritz 2 were in violation of the
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SMP and hash collision bug fixes. Work-around for Shredder GUI.
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Tryfon Gavriel compared Houdini's playing style to that of the
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The latest stable release of Houdini comes in two versions:
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Improved search and evaluation. Gaviota Table Base Support.
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Houdini used to be one of the most successful engines in
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to Strength option. Exit on detection with GUI exit.
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Index

Developer(s)
Stable release
Operating system
Microsoft Windows
Type
Chess engine
License
Proprietary
www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm
UCI
chess engine
Belgian
programmer
open-source
IPPOLIT
Stockfish
Crafty
Chess programming

Board representations
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Bitboards
Evaluation functions
Deep neural networks
Transformers
Attention
Efficiently updatable neural networks
Handcrafted evaluation functions
Piece-square tables
Reinforcement learning

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