Komodo subscription program

Komodo is the only commercial engine being actively developed. Looking at TCEC dev submissions, we can't expect Houdini to be in that category, and the rest of the engines are simply too far behind to be of any real use for centaur play.

In recent years, their subscription plan has been a good deal, for anyone wanting to be up to date, but more recently, that was called into question. Because there's no other place to check the release dates of past versions (the new Komodo page at ChessProgrammingWIKI is still empty), I decided to compile the data here:

  9-> May 6, 2015        45 days to next update
9.1-> June 20, 2015      62 days to next update
9.2-> August 21, 2015    97 days to next update
9.3-> November 26, 2015 113 days to next update
9.4-> March 18, 2016     61 days to next update
 10-> May 18, 2016       64 days to next update
10.1-> July 21, 2016     100 days to next update
10.2-> Oct. 29, 2016      53 days to next update
10.3-> Dec. 21, 2016      83 days to next update
10.4-> March 14, 2017     69 days to next update
 11-> May 22, 2017       56 days to next update
11.2-> July 17, 2017     230 days to next update
11.3-> Mar 04, 2018       71 days to next update
 12-> May 14, 2018       21 days to next update
12.1-> Jun 04, 2018      155 days to next update
12.2-> November 06, 2018   1 day and counting
Please note, that despite new releases being speed up this year, the Elo gain since Komodo 11.2 is virtually none (too small to measure at CCRL 40/40 TC). The focus of recent updates, has been on the MCTS feature. This last part is still true for the latest update, if we believe Larry's announcement.