State of invidual and original chess engine development?

[abik]

I have been away from this forum for a while, limiting my postings to information on minor electronic chess board or Chess for Android updates only. However, lately, the chess engine bug itches again and I was thinking of reviving bikjump with the goal of finally releasing v3.0. I had cleaned up the sources a while back, made many improvements, and like to replace all the bikjumps floating around with this newer, much cleaner version.

However, is there still an interest in individual and mostly original chess engines? I can imagine the field is flooded with clones and projects based on neural nets. Do people still run tournaments and is there an audience for newer versions?

Just curious...

[Graham Banks]

I have been away from this forum for a while, limiting my postings to information on minor electronic chess board or Chess for Android updates only. However, lately, the chess engine bug itches again and I was thinking of reviving bikjump with the goal of finally releasing v3.0. I had cleaned up the sources a while back, made many improvements, and like to replace all the bikjumps floating around with this newer, much cleaner version.

However, is there still an interest in individual and mostly original chess engines? I can imagine the field is flooded with clones and projects based on neural nets. Do people still run tournaments and is there an audience for newer versions?

Just curious...

Looking forward to a new BikJump.

[abik]

Looking forward to a new BikJump.

Thanks Graham! Good to see you are still active!!!

[flok]

I have been away from this forum for a while, limiting my postings to information on minor electronic chess board or Chess for Android updates only. However, lately, the chess engine bug itches again and I was thinking of reviving bikjump with the goal of finally releasing v3.0. I had cleaned up the sources a while back, made many improvements, and like to replace all the bikjumps floating around with this newer, much cleaner version.

However, is there still an interest in individual and mostly original chess engines? I can imagine the field is flooded with clones and projects based on neural nets. Do people still run tournaments and is there an audience for newer versions?

Just curious...

Please do! Especially for the reason you give yourself: it is an original chess program.

[abik]

Please do! Especially for the reason you give yourself: it is an original chess program.

Thanks Folkert! Really good to see this community is still buzzing!

[mclane]

However, is there still an interest in individual and mostly original chess engines?

Just curious...

Hi Aart, i still remember how you put this tournament feature for android uci engines in your android gui.

And you implemented it really as good as a professional pc program.

From this day on it was possible for me to enjoy tournaments during work without anybody recognising i am not really working 100%.

You are right the many stockfish clones do not help to find computerchess exiting anymore.

A good new bikjump would help us out.

[abik]

Hi Aart, i still remember how you put this tournament feature for android uci engines in your android gui.
And you implemented it really as good as a professional pc program.
From this day on it was possible for me to enjoy tournaments during work without anybody recognising i am not really working 100%.

Those were good times!

A good new bikjump would help us out.

Okay, version 3.0 coming up! It won't make any difference to the chess world but a cleaner and maybe even slightly stronger bikjump would be nice to push out there anyways....