Nanook v0.17 available

Nanook v0.17 is finally available ! You can download this version here. This is the list of the main changes :

- Basic implementation of the aspiration windows
- Better Killer moves
- Principal Variation Search
- Basic implementation of Late Move Reduction
- Corrected some bugs with hash table and check problems
- Basic implementation of history heuristic

I didn't manage yet the following important points :

- to ameliorate the compatibility with UCI protocol
- to work on the evaluation function
- to implement some specific algorithms to play end games

But it will be probably the main points I will work on wih the next version.

Here are the results of the last tournament between nanook v0.16 and v0.17, this new version seems better... :-)

15 games of 5 minutes :

Module	Score	Na	Na	S-B
Nanook_0-17	13,5/15	· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ··	=11111111111=1=	20,25
Nanook v0.16	1,5/15	=00000000000=0=	· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ··	20,25

I still have a lot of improvements to do in order to have a Nanook Chess version not so weak... I work will work on it !

Nanook Chess is back

Nanook Chess development has been stopped almost 2 years ago. I have been too busy to continue to work on it, but I hope to be able to improve the AI level in the coming months.
The 2 years old version is now available at the following address : Nanook chess v0.16