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9409 :: The Salewski Chess Engine is finally available

• Stefan_Salewski (orginal) [2022-08-24T22:09:45+02:00] view original

  After nearly seven years, the successor of nim-chess4 is finally available:

  https://github.com/StefanSalewski/salewski-chess

  The engine is tiny, simple and fast. A minimal GTK4 and GTK3 frontend is available.

  Feel free to create a GUI frontend with your favorite toolkit.

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• drkameleon (orginal) [2022-08-24T23:50:10+02:00] view original

  Great work! Well done! :)

  I'll definitely have a better look into the code!

  I've been a lifelong chess addict (and created some 2-3 chess engine - horrible, all of them - at some point), so... I do get the thrill!

  Have you tried calculating its ELO or having it play with other engines?

  In any case, very well done again! :)

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• koistinen (orginal) [2022-08-25T10:34:49+02:00] view original

  Nice, I will examine it. Back in the 32-bit Sparc days I worked on GNU Chess and I had to measure performance to convince me that the generator was faster than the one I made. Now I think I understand a little better how that could be, think it was due to better branch prediction. It will be interesting to compare it with a bitboard generator on a 64-bit cpu.

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• Pyautogui (orginal) [2022-08-26T12:01:29+02:00] view original

  Wonderful! Thanks so much !

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