New engine releases & news H1 2025

[nocturn9x]

Greetings! Today I have released Heimdall 1.3.1 with a critical bug fix for pondering, which was apparently broken since version 1.3! Many thanks to those who reported the issue to me

You can find the binaries here: https://git.nocturn9x.space/heimdall-en ... /tag/1.3.1

[cristiv]

Hello All,

There is a new release (2.02) of Sturddle here:
https://github.com/cristivlas/sturddle-2/releases/

Best regards,
Cristian

[Sylwy]

MadChess 3.3

https://www.madchess.net/

https://www.madchess.net/wp-content/upl ... ss-3-3.zip

[Gabor Szots]

Leorik 3.1

https://github.com/lithander/Leorik/releases/tag/3.1

[pohl4711]

Viridithas 17.0:

https://github.com/cosmobobak/viriditha ... ag/v17.0.0

LTC:
Elo | 33.11 +- 6.29 (95%)
Conf | 60.0+0.60s Threads=1 Hash=128MB
Games | N: 3000 W: 832 L: 547 D: 1621
Penta | [3, 240, 737, 509, 11]
https://chess.swehosting.se/test/10329/

[mhouppin]

Stash v37 released
https://gitlab.com/mhouppin/stash-bot/-/releases/v37.0

+53 Elo over v36 at LTC.

[Andres Valverde]

EveAnn 3.1 released

https://sites.google.com/view/dirtychess/dirtychess

[Andres Valverde]

Hi all,

Dirty Catpaw released

https://sites.google.com/view/dirtychess/dirtychess

[Andres Valverde]

EveAnn 3.2 released (bug fix)

https://sites.google.com/view/dirtychess/dirtychess

[pkrisz]

Renegade 1.2.0
https://github.com/pkrisz99/Renegade/re ... tag/v1.2.0

Adds support for multithreaded search and features a much-improved neural network, along with numerous search patches.

Self-play against version 1.1.0 with an unbalanced book:

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Elo   | 167.14 +- 3.27 (95%)
Conf  | 50.0+0.50s Threads=1 Hash=128MB
Games | N: 10000 W: 4971 L: 500 D: 4529
Penta | [1, 55, 853, 3654, 437]