New engine releases & news H1 2026

[Damir]

It comes up with an error already on the 1st opening move as showed in the picture.

[Sylwy]

It comes up with an error already on the 1st opening move as showed in the picture.

[Damir]

The engine is useless.

[BrendanJNorman]

A very (very) interesting chess project !

https://github.com/jay-codes-chess/human-chess-engine

My & ChatGPT logo:

How do you guys find this stuff so quickly?

Here's the story:

I'm sure some of you have heard of "OpenClaw" (formerly known as moltbot and clawdbot) - its an open source bot which can take any LLM, use it as a brain and work basically 24/7. It is even proactive and will work without guidance.

I created one, named it "Jay" and got him working on my "dream" engine.

Problem is, he is running on a Mac and has no windows environment for debugging.

Maybe one of our geniuses in the community can figure out what is causing it not to run, but as you guys know, I can't code if i life depends on it.

I do plan to give "Jay" some way of running on Windows though. We'll see.

The project is mostly curiosity (if he could pull it off), but also. personal passion.

Nobody was supposed to use it yet, but Jay thought the easiest way to give me binaries to test was to just create releases.

Impressed by how fast our community found it. Still a LOT of passion for computer chess here.

[AdminX]

A very (very) interesting chess project !

https://github.com/jay-codes-chess/human-chess-engine

My & ChatGPT logo:

How do you guys find this stuff so quickly?

Here's the story:

I'm sure some of you have heard of "OpenClaw" (formerly known as moltbot and clawdbot) - its an open source bot which can take any LLM, use it as a brain and work basically 24/7. It is even proactive and will work without guidance.

I created one, named it "Jay" and got him working on my "dream" engine.

Problem is, he is running on a Mac and has no windows environment for debugging.

Maybe one of our geniuses in the community can figure out what is causing it not to run, but as you guys know, I can't code if i life depends on it.

I do plan to give "Jay" some way of running on Windows though. We'll see.

The project is mostly curiosity (if he could pull it off), but also. personal passion.

Nobody was supposed to use it yet, but Jay thought the easiest way to give me binaries to test was to just create releases.

Impressed by how fast our community found it. Still a LOT of passion for computer chess here.

Funny, My youngest son just setup one (OpenClaw) on his PC and called it "Mother". Mother do this, and mother do that ... Drives my wife crazy! He says it with a European accent of course.

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi there,

we shouldn't forget about engine updates in the thread about engine updates. Here are the updates from the last few days. That's right, or visitors think that all programmers are enjoying their well-deserved retirement. Bob only and a very small group of others are in ...

Tarnished 5.0 Hero
https://github.com/Bobingstern/Tarnished
Anik Patel, USA

Odonata 1.1.0
https://github.com/akanalytics/odonata
Andy Watkins, England

Zangdar 6
https://github.com/Carbecq/Zangdar
Philippe CHEVALIER, France

Sturddle 2.5.0
https://github.com/cristivlas/sturddle-2
Cristian Vlasceanu, Romania

Bagatur 5.4
https://github.com/bagaturchess/Bagatur
Krasimir Topchiyski, Bulgaria

Rusti-Rival 1.0.26
https://github.com/chris-moreton/rusty-rival/tags
Chris Moreton, England

PZChessBot 6.1
https://github.com/kevlu8/PZChessBot
Kevin Lu, William Ma, Canada

Can be follow on my overview also.
Without advertising, hidden statistics, or all that confusing stuff!

https://www.amateurschach.de/main/_engines.htm (well-assorted to release date of engines)
https://www.amateurschach.de/main/_engines-a.htm (alphabetic order of engines)

Best
Frank

PS:
Does anyone have any ideas for solving sleep problems before I flood the whole forum with news? No, no... I'm just kidding.