The UCI protocol is rather technical and has little value in our README. Instead
it should be explained in our wiki. "Contributing" is moved above "Compiling
Stockfish" to make it more prominent.
Also move the CONTRIBUTING.md into the root directory and include it in the
distributed artifacts/releases.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4766
No functional change
using github actions, create a prerelease for the latest commit to master.
As such a development version will be available on github, in addition to the latest release.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4622
No functional change
This patch results in search values for a TB win/loss to be reported in a way that does not change with normalization, i.e. will be consistent over time.
A value of 200.00 pawns is now reported upon entering a TB won position. Values smaller than 200.00 relate to the distance in plies from the root to the probed position position,
with 1 cp being 1 ply distance.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4353
No functional change
Github Actions allows us to use up to 20 workers.
This way we can launch multiple different checks
at the same time and optimize the overall time
the CI takes a bit.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4223
No functional change
For development versions of Stockfish, the version will now look like
dev-20221107-dca9a0533
indicating a development version, the date of the last commit,
and the git SHA of that commit. If git is not available,
the fallback is the date of compilation. Releases will continue to be
versioned as before.
Additionally, this PR extends the CI to create binary artifacts,
i.e. pushes to master will automatically build Stockfish and upload
the binaries to github.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/4220
No functional change
