New engine releases & news H2 2025

[Andres Valverde]

Caligula 3.0 released

https://sites.google.com/view/dirtychess/dirtychess

[Frank Quisinsky]

Tcheran 9.0
https://github.com/tcheran-chess/tcheran
by Jonathan Gilchrist, England

Also a very nice development.
I don't know what to do with myself anymore. One event after another ...
A hard time for me.

December 2025 will go in chess history as months with the most releases!

[Frank Quisinsky]

Gingko (Fritz 20), 251024

Note:
In Fritz 20 GUI update 7 is an update for the engine
Gingko (Fritz 20) by Frank Schneider, Germany
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[Sylwy]

Gingko (Fritz 20), 251024

Note:
In Fritz 20 GUI update 7 is an update for the engine

+1

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi,

yes, I have often criticized this in German forums.
Means, not to pay for each commercial engine update, inside a commercial GUI project.

We should be realistic, it is becoming increasingly difficult for commercial projects.
But actions like these increase user confidence.

I am very happy that Frank Schneider is working on Fritz engine.
A talented German programmer (thinking on Gromit, Anaconda).
Frank goes at first the Winboard way, the UCI way and develops allways very nice engines.
Furthermore, a very sympathical programmer!!

Now a free engine update.
That's a great development.

Much better as all the critical engines, like Rybka, Houdini or other things available from ChessBase.

Again, very nice at all ...
A free engine update for ChessBase is from time to time the right way to make customers happy.
Speaking about my own opinion.
As customer from ChessBase software, I am very happy about exactly this!

We can criticize, but we should also always be able to praise.

Best
Frank

[Frank Quisinsky]

Grail 1.0.1
https://github.com/jorgenhanssen/grail
by Jørgen Hanssen, Norway

Prelude 2.1
https://github.com/Quinniboi10/Prelude
by unknown, country unknown

[ericlangedijk]

Hello chess lovers,

chessnix_1.2 is there.
https://github.com/ericlangedijk/chessn ... es/tag/1.2

With a bit of luck it reaches 3000+ ELO.
Lots of changes, some minor logical bugs solved.

Best regards,
Eric

[GyatsoYT]

Gyatso v1.0 is now available.
https://github.com/GyatsoYT/GyatsoChess/releases

This is the first public release of my open-source chess engine, written in Nim. The current playing strength is not yet established; a rough estimate would be around ~2000 Elo, but this still needs proper testing.

The engine is very much a work in progress, and any feedback, testing, or suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Gyatso