New engine: Clover

[lucametehau]

Hi everyone!

I'm Luca and I have recently developed a chess engine in C++. I started 2 years ago, when I learned Python and found out about python-chess library. I managed to make an engine, but it was too too slow. So, I decided to start from scratch an engine in C++, which proved to be fun, and I countinued to this day. Of course, this is not my first version, but is one I'm ok with. (Other versions have major bugs...)

Github link: https://github.com/lucametehau/CloverEngine.
From testing, I could say that Clover is 2800+ (maybe 2900+, not too sure).

I would love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to criticize me as well!

[bastiball]

Congrats mr. Luca, you can post this in the general forum

Goodluck for the next version!

[lucametehau]

Thanks bastiball!

Can I just copy-paste my post in general? Do i need to delete this topic?

[AlexChess]

Hi Luca,
I'm really admired by your Clover 2.4 engine!

I've played a superblitz between it and all the top engines and it scored very well (18 points 43°/61) reaching an ELO of 3300 ELO, please continue to improve it

Here you find your profile with all the games from the SuperBlitz:
forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=78182

Best regards, Alex

[Scally]

Hi Luca,

After reading your README.md file, Clover compiles fine on my Raspberry Pi Linux armv7 by just removing -static from the Makefile, I left -pthread in there.


Thanks,

Al.