New engine releases & news H1 2023

[lucametehau]

Clover 4.1

https://github.com/lucametehau/CloverEn ... s/tag/v4.1

About 30-50 elo stronger

[JacquesRW]

akimbo 0.3.0: https://github.com/JacquesRW/akimbo/releases/tag/v0.3.0
Adds back FRC support!

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Time Control: 60s+0.6s
Score of akimbo-0.3.0 vs akimbo-0.2.0: 217 - 80 - 203  [0.637] 500
...      akimbo-0.3.0 playing White: 122 - 31 - 97  [0.682] 250
...      akimbo-0.3.0 playing Black: 95 - 49 - 106  [0.592] 250
...      White vs Black: 171 - 126 - 203  [0.545] 500
Elo difference: 97.7 +/- 23.7, LOS: 100.0 %, DrawRatio: 40.6 %

[Gabor Szots]

Cadabra 1.0.0 (first release)

https://github.com/JENebel/Cadabra

[looa]

on and off developing for the past 6 years has finally brought me to this post. It's not strong, there's much more to be done and now I'm reconsidering my career choices.

https://github.com/looak/elephant

Thanks for humouring my post, hope you have a great day!

[Gabor Szots]

on and off developing for the past 6 years has finally brought me to this post. It's not strong, there's much more to be done and now I'm reconsidering my career choices.

https://github.com/looak/elephant

Thanks for humouring my post, hope you have a great day!

There is already an engine by the name Elephant.

https://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/404/cgi/ ... phant_1_06

[looa]

noted, technically my engine is called elephant gambit - is this OK?

[Gabor Szots]

noted, technically my engine is called elephant gambit - is this OK?

I don't think there are rules for this. Only, it might cause confusion, creating the impression that the authors and the engines are the same. For example, ChessMaster has lots of variants, all by the same author and all starts with the name ChessMaster, e.g. Galadriel, Gambit Hero, Gil Galad and many others. Or Chess Tiger has a variant caled Gambit Tiger. I'm sure there are many more.

[Werewolf]

Houdini 7 might be incomming

[Guenther]

Houdini 7 might be incomming

No one needs it and it was proven that Houdini 6 and before was using illegally lots of SF source code verbatim.
This post should be in the EO subforum.

[Uri]

No one needs it and it was proven that Houdini 6 and before was using illegally lots of SF source code verbatim.
This post should be in the EO subforum.

I think people are taking this whole 'plagiarised thing' too seriously. Chess is just a game after all but some people are taking it way too seriously.

Personally I would like there to be a Houdini 7 and even a Houdini 8 and I believe that if Houdini 7 will play very strong chess and is a much bigger improvement in playing strength over Houdini 6 then many people will want it, regardless if it's a Stockfish clone or not.