New engine releases & news 2021

[Gabor Szots]

Anka 0.6.0

https://github.com/erenyesilyurt/anka/r ... tag/v0.6.0

Unfortunately Windows Defender removes it saying it is a trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml

BTW, yesterday Windows Defender has also removed Velvet 3.0.0, which I was using many times.

[Guenther]

BlackMarlin 2.0
https://github.com/dsekercioglu/blackmarlin

[Gabor Szots]

Anka 0.6.0

https://github.com/erenyesilyurt/anka/r ... tag/v0.6.0

Unfortunately Windows Defender removes it saying it is a trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!mlany times.

I downloaded it again and now it's OK. Not sure it has changed, maybe Defender has learned something in between.

[Guenther]

Revenge 2.0 announced for next week
https://www.revengechess.com/

[Guenther]

not yet mentioned anywhere:

POS DeepBrute 2.4
https://vanheusden.com/chess/DeepBrutePos/

Chenard 20211106
http://cosinekitty.com/chenard/

(new) Kengine 1.0.2 (compilation by me currently under test)
https://github.com/bhlangonijr/kengine
(RedQueen author with a minimalistic engine, which can use either simple MCTS or AB search - uci option)

News:
Announcement of a new Rofchade+NNUE for the (near?) future
http://rofchade.nl/?p=375

Dead links replaced with new working ones, or wayback archives in the chronology
(especially all vanHeusden programs (again), Popochin, Jonesy, TheTurk, Felpo, Bright, free Rybka collection, MSCP ...)

[Frank Quisinsky]

A new Revenge, that's great!

John Stanback is also working hard on a version with
- FRC Support
- a small "fix" for Rasp

Maybe available end of the year, start of the new year.

Best
Frank

[Damir]

sacai-engine v1.0

A powerful, open-source neural chess engine combining the neural nets of lc0 with a custom Montey-Carlo Tree Search algorithm (based on Ceres'). Tested ELO: 3356.95.

https://github.com/sanchit-sehgal/sacai ... tag/latest

[Guenther]

sacai-engine v1.0

A powerful, open-source neural chess engine combining the neural nets of lc0 with a custom Montey-Carlo Tree Search algorithm (based on Ceres'). Tested ELO: 3356.95.

https://github.com/sanchit-sehgal/sacai ... tag/latest

Holy Frankenstein ;-)

[connor_mcmonigle]

sacai-engine v1.0

A powerful, open-source neural chess engine combining the neural nets of lc0 with a custom Montey-Carlo Tree Search algorithm (based on Ceres'). Tested ELO: 3356.95.

https://github.com/sanchit-sehgal/sacai ... tag/latest

It looks like it's just a Ceres clone with no significant changes (if any). The directory structure has been changed, but all the files are still there. Also as Ceres is GPL licensed, the "author" can't just relicense it as Apache legally afaik.

Quite disappointing

[tmokonen]

sacai-engine v1.0

A powerful, open-source neural chess engine combining the neural nets of lc0 with a custom Montey-Carlo Tree Search algorithm (based on Ceres'). Tested ELO: 3356.95.

https://github.com/sanchit-sehgal/sacai ... tag/latest

It looks like it's just a Ceres clone with no significant changes (if any). The directory structure has been changed, but all the files are still there. Also as Ceres is GPL licensed, the "author" can't just relicense it as Apache legally afaik.

Quite disappointing

Oddly, the README.md file says Apache license, but the LICENSE.md file says GPL?