New engine releases & news 2021

[Terje]

Thanks Terje. You make good progress.

Damnation Now I have another 100 Elo to catch up to

Ah well... congratulations

Thanks

[Gabor Szots]

Ceibo 0.6

https://sites.google.com/site/ceibochess/home

[Damir]

Qapla Chess Engine

by Volker Böhm

Version 0.0.14

UCI & Winboard Support
Standard search with very little pruning (Nullmove & Futility in Quiescense) and very little extensions (check extension only)
Eval: King Security, Mobility, Static Pawn structure
Endgame-Eval: Handling several situations with few pieces (like King + Rook vs. King)

https://github.com/Mangar2/Quabla/releases/tag/0.0.14

[Guenther]

Qapla Chess Engine

by Volker Böhm

Version 0.0.14

UCI & Winboard Support
Standard search with very little pruning (Nullmove & Futility in Quiescense) and very little extensions (check extension only)
Eval: King Security, Mobility, Static Pawn structure
Endgame-Eval: Handling several situations with few pieces (like King + Rook vs. King)

https://github.com/Mangar2/Quabla/releases/tag/0.0.14

good morning!
http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.p ... la#p881181

[Archimedes]

Counter 3.7:
https://github.com/ChizhovVadim/Counter ... ag/v1.37.0

[Graham Banks]

Counter 3.7:
https://github.com/ChizhovVadim/Counter ... ag/v1.37.0

Hopefully, Sophos won't keep deleting this one.

[Guenther]

Ceres 0.87 and 0.88 were released the last few days

https://github.com/dje-dev/Ceres/releases

Endamat (Chess) was released as standalone today as a new uci engine.
It is/was part of Affinity Chess written in Python.
The author Elias Nilsson (aka eligolf@talkchess) compiled a binary for it today in a new repo.
I will add it tonight to the XB/UCI chronology.

https://github.com/eligolf/endamat_chess

Stockfish 13 is announced for the weekend (most likely)

[CMCanavessi]

Stockfish 13 is announced for the weekend (most likely)

Really? Isn't it around +30-35 compared to SF12? Looks too soon for a release.

[Guenther]

Stockfish 13 is announced for the weekend (most likely)

Really? Isn't it around +30-35 compared to SF12? Looks too soon for a release.

https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... /pull/3359

[Archimedes]

Velvet 1.2.0:
https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess ... tag/v1.2.0