Added “Contempt for White” command to improve analysis.Better handling of blocked positions tied with improved Contempt.Added “suppress” command to suppress communication between the engine and GUI useful in remote connections or very fast games.Increased weight on all “dynamic” terms.Major re-tuning of most eval and many search parameters.engine now ignores repeated commands from GUIs.Persistent Hash: save and restore analysis Chess 960 (Fischer Random Chess) support Improved search performance (much better time-to-depth) improved understanding of attacks on the king There are four important new features since Komodo 9, ”Contempt”, “Contempt for White”, “Dynamism”, and “Magnify” described below.
Champion Hikaru Nakamura by 2.5 to 1.5 despite giving him rook for knight, f2 pawn, f7 pawn, and four move handicaps. Komodo 10 is an improved version of the program that defeated World Champion Candidate and U.S.
Komodo 10 is approximately 60 Elo stronger than Komodo 9 on one or on many cores, and about 15 elo stronger than Komodo 9.42, our last release, based on our own testing, mostly at 2 minutes plus one second increment. Komodo has won highly respected engine tournaments such as TCEC, CCT, and the World Blitz and World Rapid championships. Komodo 10 is an improvement over all previous Komodo versions and supports multi-core computers and endgame tablebases. NOTE: the most important settings for best strength are "Threads" and "Hash", described below.
These instructions explain the settings and usage for Komodo 10.