New engine releases & news H2 2024

[Graham Banks]

It is 7.1, Luca, not 8.0...

He just forgot to update the UCI version, it seems.

Alex

Too many releases too quickly.

[lucametehau]

Indeed, feel free to ignore this, it doesn't affect engine performance. I just forgot to update it

[Gabor Szots]

Indeed, feel free to ignore this, it doesn't affect engine performance. I just forgot to update it

Thanks, I feel free to ignore it.

[bastiball]

Indeed, feel free to ignore this, it doesn't affect engine performance. I just forgot to update it

I'm putting it on queue

[Guenther]

New engine iBlunder 2024-09-04_19-47
author: Tim Jones
country: GBR
programming language: C#

https://github.com/Timmoth/iBlunder
https://lichess.org/@/iblunder-bot

iBlunder

A strong dotnet UCI Chess engine

Note

iBlunder is still in active development so will so expect certain features to be missing or experimental.

Play it here -> https://iblunder.com/

Or challenge it on Lichess -> https://lichess.org/@/iblunder-bot
Releases

You can download the latest version for windows, linux or mac here
Requirements

iBlunder makes use of hardware intrinsics to improve performance. Currently your CPU must support: Avx2, Bmi1, Bmi2, Popcnt, Sse. Most modern hardware shipped after 2013 should be supported.
The releases come with a bundled version of the dotnet runtime, however if you want to run from source you'll need the dotnet 8 SDK installed.

as mentioned above, some peculiarities still,
- it shows no uci name/author/version currently
- ponder is true by default
- only shows (tiny) pv for last depth with bestmove

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uci
option name Threads type spin default 1 min 1 max 1024
option name Ponder type check default true
uciok
isready
readyok
position startpos
setoption name Ponder value false
go depth 18
bestmove e2e4 ponder e7e5
info depth 18 score cp 14 nodes 8624115 nps 1849171 time 4663 pv e7e5

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uci
option name Threads type spin default 1 min 1 max 1024
option name Ponder type check default true
uciok
isready
readyok
position startpos
setoption name Ponder value false
go wtime 60000 winc 1000 btime 60000 binc 1000
bestmove e2e4 ponder c7c5
info depth 18 score cp 12 nodes 5061953 nps 1808389 time 2799 pv c7c5

[Gabor Szots]

Indeed, feel free to ignore this, it doesn't affect engine performance. I just forgot to update it

Now 8.0.2 displays 8.0.1.

[op12no2]

cwtch v1 - uci - javascript - nnue - lozza rewrite

https://github.com/op12no2/cwtch

may well be issues - probably best to contact me directly rather than pollute this thread.

[Sylwy]

cwtch v1 - uci - javascript - nnue - lozza rewrite

https://github.com/op12no2/cwtch

may well be issues - probably best to contact me directly rather than pollute this thread.

THANK YOU, again !

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[Guenther]

New engine iBlunder 2024-09-04_19-47
author: Tim Jones
country: GBR
programming language: C#

https://github.com/Timmoth/iBlunder
https://lichess.org/@/iblunder-bot

...

As of today renamed to 'Sapling'
https://github.com/Timmoth/Sapling

[Gabor Szots]

Amelia 0.12 by Joey Bednar, USA.

https://github.com/joey-bednar/amelia/r ... /tag/v0.12