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Hi Graham,

Is there a schedule for when the games will take place? Can't find that info on this forum.

Looking forward to the next series

Thanks,
Dan

Hello CCRL, Calvin 3.4.0 is now released: https://github.com/kelseyde/calvin-chess-engine/releases/tag/3.4.0 3.4.0 comes with the following new features + improvements: - Faster move generation : instead of calling make/unmake move to check legality of generated king moves, just remove the king from...

Hello Gabor, I missed your last comment saying you got it working, as I just now created a 3.2.0 release compiled with Java 17 :D Maybe in the future I will release two versions of each release in case Java 17 is more convenient for some people. The 17 version can be found here: https://github.com/k...

Hi Gabor,

Got it, more than happy to wait and see how Calvin gets on

I estimate it will be about about 75-100 elo increase, based on Lichess ratings and my own local tests.

And yes my mistake, I meant 2.6.2!

Regards,
Dan

Hello Gabor, Graham, Happy new year and I hope things are well in the world of CCRL. I wonder if you have time, could you run some matches with the newest version of Calvin, released last month? I saw a significant jump in playing strength in the last few versions during local testing, so I'd be ver...

Hello Gabor, Graham, I've released a new Calvin version 3.2.0. Since the last time Calvin was tested I've added quite some new features: - Improved UCI-compatibility : hash size and number of threads are now configurable via UCI. Calvin will now output "id" information as well as available...

Hello, Apologies for taking so long to get back. I have created a new Calvin release 3.0.0 which contains some UCI-compatibility improvements as well as an increase in playing strength. Hash size and number of threads are now configurable via UCI. Executable can be found in the bin folder of the lat...

Hello Gabor,

Thanks for the tips. I've added the version number to the .jar and also created a Github release describing the latest changes.

What do you mean by UCI id?

Hello Graham,

Got it! I've uploaded the .jar to /bin/calvin.jar here: https://github.com/kelseyde/calvin-ches ... e/main/bin

Thanks very much!

Hello all, First time poster here. Over the last few weeks I've been working on a chess engine written in Java as a personal project. It's called Calvin and can be found on GitHub here: https://github.com/kelseyde/calvin-chess-engine Calvin is UCI-compliant and plays on Lichess where it is rated ~22...