New engine releases & news 2021

[hiblom]

Hi all!

To my big surprise, I saw that my older engine, Haddock, was actually participating in a tournament organised on this forum! This is of course fine, but this engine is discontinued, so it will not get any better...
However, I'll keep it up on github. Perhaps it can be of use to someone.

I am now actively working on my other engine, DoctorB, and now I have released v1.0.0.

My aim is to build the best engine that I can, while keeping things a bit original.
If you have any questions or remarks, feel free contact me

- Hans

[mvanthoor]

Hi all!

To my big surprise, I saw that my older engine, Haddock, was actually participating in a tournament organised on this forum! This is of course fine, but this engine is discontinued, so it will not get any better...
However, I'll keep it up on github. Perhaps it can be of use to someone.

I am now actively working on my other engine, DoctorB, and now I have released v1.0.0.

My aim is to build the best engine that I can, while keeping things a bit original.
If you have any questions or remarks, feel free contact me

- Hans

Hm.... over time, more and more engines written in Rust seem to pop up, even from the past. I'll add this one to the list. The ones I know of on top of my head are:

Rustic (my own engine)
FabChess
Asymptote
Little Wing
Chareth
Crabby (old: only compiles on one single nightly version of Rust)
Cicada (old: compiles, but with a huge amount of warnings)

And now Haddock. Did I miss any somewhere?

[Gabor Szots]

Hm.... over time, more and more engines written in Rust seem to pop up, even from the past. I'll add this one to the list. The ones I know of on top of my head are:

Rustic (my own engine)
FabChess
Asymptote
Little Wing
Chareth
Crabby (old: only compiles on one single nightly version of Rust)
Cicada (old: compiles, but with a huge amount of warnings)

And now Haddock. Did I miss any somewhere?

Celestial
Chessier
FoxSEE
Rasch
Velvet

BTW, I have made some modifications on Crabby so that now it compiles on a stable version. The only flaw is that I must have broken something as it plays much worse than the original.

[mvanthoor]

Celestial
Chessier
FoxSEE
Rasch
Velvet

BTW, I have made some modifications on Crabby so that now it compiles on a stable version. The only flaw is that I must have broken something as it plays much worse than the original.

Those are all Rust engines? Cool. I never knew. I have even have Celestial in my gauntlet. (Although it'll probably drop out after I hit 1900+ with Rustic, because I see no point in testing against engines that are 200 Elo weaker or stronger than my own. I generally keep within a -100 to +100 range.)

[jhonnold]

I have released Berserk 4.2.0.

This is mostly a release around LOTS of small changes. Hopefully ~50-60 Elo gain over 4.1.0

https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk/releases/tag/4.2.0

[Rebel]

I have released Berserk 4.2.0.

This is mostly a release around LOTS of small changes. Hopefully ~50-60 Elo gain over 4.1.0

https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk/releases/tag/4.2.0

You are going fast.

http://rebel13.nl/a/grl.htm

1300 games.

You probably need stronger opponents by now.

[jhonnold]

I have released Berserk 4.2.0.

This is mostly a release around LOTS of small changes. Hopefully ~50-60 Elo gain over 4.1.0

https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk/releases/tag/4.2.0

You are going fast.

http://rebel13.nl/a/grl.htm

1300 games.

You probably need stronger opponents by now.

It's an addicting hobby - just spent my entire vacation working remotely from a laptop

[alex67a]

Hi all!

To my big surprise, I saw that my older engine, Haddock, was actually participating in a tournament organised on this forum! This is of course fine, but this engine is discontinued, so it will not get any better...
However, I'll keep it up on github. Perhaps it can be of use to someone.

I am now actively working on my other engine, DoctorB, and now I have released v1.0.0.

My aim is to build the best engine that I can, while keeping things a bit original.
If you have any questions or remarks, feel free contact me

- Hans

Seems don't work on Arena GUI...

[Damir]

OliThink 5.9.6

Thanks to the Author Oliver Brausch smile16

DOWNLOAD : http://brausch.org/home/chess/index.html

[Rebel]

I have released Berserk 4.2.0.

This is mostly a release around LOTS of small changes. Hopefully ~50-60 Elo gain over 4.1.0

https://github.com/jhonnold/berserk/releases/tag/4.2.0

You are going fast.

http://rebel13.nl/a/grl.htm

1300 games.

You probably need stronger opponents by now.

It's an addicting hobby - just spent my entire vacation working remotely from a laptop

Estimated elo gain +55

Nice.