First Release of Maverick Chess Engine!

[Steve Maughan]

If anyone is interested in a weak (but hopefully stable) engine, you might like to download the first version of Maverick. You can find out more here:

Maverick is Available for Download

All feedback is appreciated!

Steve

[zullil]

If anyone is interested in a weak (but hopefully stable) engine, you might like to download the first version of Maverick. You can find out more here:

Maverick is Available for Download

All feedback is appreciated!

Steve

Can you provide source code, or at least OS X and linux binaries?

[carldaman]

If anyone is interested in a weak (but hopefully stable) engine, you might like to download the first version of Maverick. You can find out more here:

Maverick is Available for Download

All feedback is appreciated!

Steve

"If you’re interested in a fast but dumb engine, then Maverick will be perfect." -from Maverick website.

Hi Steve,

I'll be testing Maverick shortly, but I'm also curious about Monarch, actually. It was/is a very promising engine. Is it still under development?

RE: the website quote above, which was probably stated jokingly, have you considered developing a slow but smart engine, rather ?! I tend to think such an engine may be an even better sparring partner for a club player. Anyway, this is just a friendly suggestion. Aspiring players are still in need of better computer-chess tools

Kind regards,
CL

[Steve Maughan]

Hi Louis,

You can download the source here:

http://chilp.it/ccff73

Unfortunately Maverick is quite Windows centric and uses a thread to capture the user input. So it may be difficult to get it to run on Linux or OS X. I'd be interested to know if it is possible.

Steve

[Steve Maughan]

Hi Carl,

I've stopped developing Monarch and I'm now putting all of my effort into Maverick.

I expect the speed to drop significantly once I add some standard search features and basic chess knowledge. Hopefully one day Maverick will be a fast-ish and strong engine!

Steve

[zullil]

Hi Louis,

You can download the source here:

http://chilp.it/ccff73

Unfortunately Maverick is quite Windows centric and uses a thread to capture the user input. So it may be difficult to get it to run on Linux or OS X. I'd be interested to know if it is possible.

Steve

Thanks.

[elcabesa]

welcome to Maverick!

I'm following your blog and it looks like a very fast engine.

good luck

[velmarin]

I have also followed your blog, and your code.

At a quick glance, compiled the first try.
You started talking about Visual C + +, remember, then turn away.
And his examples and not compiled in that environment,
now again compiled (some warning, but compiled, is normal) with Visual C + + and Intel Compiler. Congratulations.
 
The engine reaches by "1 minute game" 6, 7.8 depth, and three times speed Bouquet. Stable for the moment.

It is interesting, well done.
Thanks.

[Steve Maughan]

@Marco - Many thanks!

@José - I use Visual C++ Express 2013 as my main IDE. I then compile using CodeBlocks and MinGW64 to get the final executable. The code (bittwiddle.h) is MinGW64 specific as it used the popcount. So I'd expect Visual C++ and Intel to be noticeably slower than the exe I uploaded.

Maverick may be faster than Bouquet but it's nowhere near its strength!

Steve

[carldaman]

FYI, I'm getting some crashes with ponder on (Win7 x64 Intel dual-core machine).