
Senpai 3.0 Copyright (C) 2014-2025 Fabien Letouzey.
This program is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
See licence.txt for more details.

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Today is 2025-12-16.
Senpai is a chess (also 960) engine that uses the UCI protocol.
You need a graphical interface supporting UCI to use Senpai.
Have fun with Senpai!

Changes
- rewrite in Rust
- table-based evaluation (no neural network)
- fixed search issues like sometimes missing endgame mates
- hopefully better parallel search (scaling)

UCI options:
- 'Move Overhead': estimated GUI latency per move in milliseconds.  The default value of 100 corresponds to 0.1 second and should be safe.
- 'Draw Score': score in cp for the engine.  Positive to look for repetitions; negative to avoid them somewhat.

Known issues
- Senpai looks for the 'eval' file in the current directory
- no pondering

Thanks to people who helped with this release:
- Jim Ablett
- Ryan Benitez
- Steve Maughan
- Frank Quisinsky
- CCRL and CEGT testers

Greeting to all computer-chess fans around the world!

Fabien Letouzey (xann@tutamail.com).

