hi Robin thanxxx, is it new?

It's new (cause 1.0 exist) but it appears more than 1 month. To my tournaments it seams very strong, one of the ten best engines... (very close to Hiarcs 13.2 or Deep Junior 12 to compare with commercial engine).
Have a look too at the new Spike (1.4)! Very stonger that a the last version. To me, Spike is back on the top.
Regards

Gull II beta
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gullchess/files/Gull%20II%20beta.zip

from readme:

Gull II beta @ 16.07.2012

A derivative of Gull 1.2 (program structure, board representation, move generators etc.) & Ivanhoe (versions 63 & 46: evaluation).
Whether future versions will retain Ivanhoe's evaluation is still undecided.

Gull II beta supports multi-core CPUs. For now parallel algorithms are pretty basic, and performance gain isn't very good.
P.S. Gull employs processes instead of threads for the sake of code simplicity.

P.P.S. This version may be buggy (tested only on my home PC). That's why it is a beta :)

I get an error message that says: "The procedure entry point InterlockedCompareExchange64 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll".
any help?

Gull II beta2

Compatibility with XP finally fixed. +Knight underpromotion bug fixed.
The change in playing strength should be negligible.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gullchess/files/

CEGT - rating lists August 05th 2012

Gull II beta2 x64 1CPU: 2935 - 1000 games (+131 to Gull 1.2)

Code:

Gull II beta2 x64 1CPU    2935
Gull 1.2 x64              2804

http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/40_4_Ratinglist/40_4_AllVersion/rangliste.html

very nice elo improvement...

Gull II beta2 x64 sse42 tr (Intel)
mediafire.com ?2u8ze24pw67nrlk

Gull II beta2 x64 sse42 tr2 (AMD)
mediafire.com ?7r8y7tmzk4v5425

easl wrote:Gull II beta2 x64 sse42 tr (Intel)
mediafire.com ?2u8ze24pw67nrlk

Gull II beta2 x64 sse42 tr2 (AMD)
mediafire.com ?7r8y7tmzk4v5425

Thanks easl. Is there a non SSE version too?

Gull IIb Qi x64 (support SSE4.2 and no)
Download

@Quocvuong82 wrote:Gull IIb Qi x64 (support SSE4.2 and no)
Download

Thank you, my friend!

@Quocvuong82 wrote:Gull IIb Qi x64 (support SSE4.2 and no)
Download

I get this error message "The program can't start because libiomp5md.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."

By the way, I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

Richard_1977 wrote:

@Quocvuong82 wrote:Gull IIb Qi x64 (support SSE4.2 and no)
Download

I get this error message "The program can't start because libiomp5md.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."

libiomp5md.dll

@Quocvuong82 wrote:Gull IIb Qi x64 (support SSE4.2 and no)
Download

Gull IIb Qi x64 (not_SSE4.2)?

@Quocvuong82 wrote:

Richard_1977 wrote:

@Quocvuong82 wrote:Gull IIb Qi x64 (support SSE4.2 and no)
Download

I get this error message "The program can't start because libiomp5md.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem."

libiomp5md.dll

Thanks a lot, now it works!

Gull II beta2 JA x64
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5047625/gull-II-beta2-64-ja.zip

Code:

Games Completed = 1000 of 1000 (Avg game length = 14.778 sec)
Settings = RR/32MB/2000ms+100ms/M 700000cp for 7 moves, D 150 moves/EPD:E:\LittleBlitzer\openings.epd(4000)
Time = 4246 sec elapsed, 0 sec remaining

 1.  Gull II beta2 x64           545.5/1000   284-193-523     (L: m=193 t=0 i=0 a=0)   (D: r=376 i=93 f=35 s=5 a=14)   (tpm=108.8 d=12.90 nps=1639675)
 2.  Gull II beta2 JA x64       454.5/1000   193-284-523     (L: m=284 t=0 i=0 a=0)   (D: r=376 i=93 f=35 s=5 a=14)   (tpm=109.6 d=12.64 nps=1489124)

Gull II beta2 x64 : nps=1639675
Gull II beta2 JA x64 : nps=1489124

Bob wrote:

Code:

Games Completed = 1000 of 1000 (Avg game length = 14.778 sec)
Settings = RR/32MB/2000ms+100ms/M 700000cp for 7 moves, D 150 moves/EPD:E:\LittleBlitzer\openings.epd(4000)
Time = 4246 sec elapsed, 0 sec remaining

 1.  Gull II beta2 x64           545.5/1000   284-193-523     (L: m=193 t=0 i=0 a=0)   (D: r=376 i=93 f=35 s=5 a=14)   (tpm=108.8 d=12.90 nps=1639675)
 2.  Gull II beta2 JA x64       454.5/1000   193-284-523     (L: m=284 t=0 i=0 a=0)   (D: r=376 i=93 f=35 s=5 a=14)   (tpm=109.6 d=12.64 nps=1489124)

Gull II beta2 x64 : nps=1639675
Gull II beta2 JA x64 : nps=1489124

look :

Gull II beta2 JA x64

http://chesshilton.blogspot.com.br/p/gull.html

Well done to the Chess2U forum. The only forum I could find that announced the bugfixed release of Gull II b2 (released one day after the original), apart from the Gull website itself.
Embarrassed to say that I missed it though.

Gull II R321 Trap x64 (for AVX CPUs only).

http://treu.ru/g/gull/ii_r321_trap.html

Gull II (20.12.2012)
- Slightly modified eval & search.
- Significantly improved parallel search efficiency at long time controls.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gullchess/files/Gull%20II.zip

Code:

Games Completed = 1000 of 1000 (Avg game length = 14.574 sec)
Settings = RR/32MB/2000ms+100ms/M 700000cp for 7 moves, D 150 moves/EPD:E:\LittleBlitzer\openings.epd(4000)
Time = 4313 sec elapsed, 0 sec remaining

 1.  Gull II x64                 554.0/1000   311-203-486     (L: m=203 t=0 i=0 a=0)   (D: r=356 i=61 f=48 s=2 a=19)   (tpm=109.9 d=12.32 nps=1293985)
 2.  Gull II beta2 x64           446.0/1000   203-311-486     (L: m=311 t=0 i=0 a=0)   (D: r=356 i=61 f=48 s=2 a=19)   (tpm=110.9 d=12.33 nps=1378657)

Nice!!

134 Elo more than Gull 1.2

IPON ...

Code:

Gull II                    2928  10  10  2700  63%  2836  41%
Gull 1.2                  2794    6    7  7200  48%  2806  36%