First Release of Maverick Chess Engine!

[Steve Maughan]

Hi Mithun - I think it's working now. Here's the direct link:

http://cozmixdownloads.s3.amazonaws.com ... -08-01.zip

Steve

[jshriver]

I look forward to testing it

-Josh

[emadsen]

Congrats Steve! It's great to see an original chess engine. I've been following the development of Maverick on your blog. Glad to hear your engine is ready for release.

At the moment, despite the speed advantage of 5.5 Mnps to 180 Knps, my engine scores 90%+ against yours. We'll see how long that lasts once you add null move, hash tables, better eval, etc

How do you count Nps? I count every time I play a move, not when I generate a move.

[Steve Maughan]

Hi Erik,

Thanks! Hopefully Maverick will improve quite quickly and give your engine a bit of a challenge.

I increment the node count whenever I call "alphabeta" or "qsearch". I think this is virtually the same as your method.

Best,

Steve

[wolfman]

Maverick and MadChess in my FTS list.

Rank Engine Version Compu TSR %MM AAD ATMM ART
65 Maverick 0.05 64 i 2101 9,73 7,18 3,24 934
69 MadChess 1.2 32 i 2081 10,70 7,49 4,32 939

[Steve Maughan]

Hi Eran,

Thanks for testing Maverick!

This is quite a bit higher than I expected. In my tests Maverick is about the same level as Predateur, which is 1850 ELO.

Thanks again,

Steve

[Graham Banks]

Maverick and MadChess in my FTS list.

Rank Engine Version Compu TSR %MM AAD ATMM ART
65 Maverick 0.05 64 i 2101 9,73 7,18 3,24 934
69 MadChess 1.2 32 i 2081 10,70 7,49 4,32 939

Handy to know. Thanks Eran.