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[GenoM]

Last version of Monty is an engine I recently found and immediately fell in love with it.
What an engine, what a style!
I'm very impressed. I think I've found Saint Graal of computer chess -- engine that plays so inventive that I'm astonished. To watch its games is pure pleasure!
Only thing that I know about it is that it uses MCTS.
Can someone share more about the engine and its authors?

[Frank Quisinsky]

Really a highlight in engine development!

A young programmer from England with ... in German we like to say ... Haare auf den Zähnen!
Give me contra in TalkChess for around 2 years in a thread. I am thinking OK, let see ...

As an old grandpa, I slapped me against the wall with a comment what are basics today.
OK, not very complicated to do that.

The future belongs to the younger generation. He is a prime example of this.
He is probably very talented and will fly the flag for computer chess with his work.
That's a good thing!

He provides the basics!
At the time, I was also very disrespectful. Today, that has completely changed.

[Ipmanchess]

https://github.com/official-monty/Monty
https://github.com/official-monty/Monty ... ase-latest

[Rebel]

Last version of Monty is an engine I recently found and immediately fell in love with it.
What an engine, what a style!
I'm very impressed. I think I've found Saint Graal of computer chess -- engine that plays so inventive that I'm astonished. To watch its games is pure pleasure!
Only thing that I know about it is that it uses MCTS.
Can someone share more about the engine and its authors?

I have tested Monty-20260111, it's strong and it is doing well at style testing.

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id name Monty-dev-20260111-53fb45f0
id author Jamie Whiting, Viren & The Monty Authors

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PGN   : pgn\uho-monty.pgn
Games : 15000
Won   : 9565
Time  : 5 seconds

 STYLE   King          Short           
 Total  Attack   %     Games   %     Sacs    %    Engine
249459   83456 19.5%  131336 63.8%   34667 14.1%  Monty 20260111  

Very nice score and I estimate an elo rating of +3450

I will add Monty to the playing style rating list, maybe it has a future over there.

I also tried Monty 1.0 (the original I think) but it too weak for the 3400 elo pool I use, it should get an absolute minimum of 100 won games out of the 15.000 games to get a style rating and it did not happen.

[Sylwy]

Well, a new logo for this superb chess engine ! Ruxy & ChatGPT, of course !
Like news: in my TOP_TEST_2026 I deregistered the engine called Revolver (0 points in 52 games for this "high-performance UCI-compliant chess engine") and replaced it with the latest Monty. For show........ !