Latest discovery: White Dove - a NNUE native chess engine & GUI. Rating: 2300 Elo. Written in Scratch (a sort of visual programming in Python). Running in Scratch 3.29.1. Absolutely gorgeous application!!
WAW ! Running the app in TurboWarp is a lot faster:
It is a good idea to disconnect own book of Juggernaut chess engine. Playing white on Arena 3.5.1 GUI results in many illegal moves & time forfeits. Works OK with a GUI book.
My CARDINAL POINTS tournament after 3545 games. Only one news: the last place holder (French engine KnightX-4.3_x64) was replaced with a powerful Russian engine - Reckless 080_dev_2f_64_ja_bmi2. And here a problem appears: enabling Syzygy in Engine Options panel the engine crashes on Arena 3.5.1 GUI. Anyway, it plays great without Syzygy! Nalwald 16 (the last place) has 3001 Elo points (CCRL_Blitz). So, an over 3000 Elo tournament.
The legendary Bonsai Chess (Blue Belt level) in great trouble in a Philidor Defense variation. The wonderful world of Scratch chess with its 34 perfectly functional projects (four of which have NN-based evaluation - GoK, Black Crow, Delta & Destructor). Did you know that there are also managers for tournaments/matches between chess engines written in Scratch?
....I have a lot of chess engines written in Scratch....I'll do for sure a tournament....
