New engine: Kimbo

[Jamie Whiting]

Hi,
For the past month and a bit I have been working on a chess engine called Kimbo.
The source code and a windows executable can be found at: https://github.com/JacquesRW/Kimbo/releases/tag/v0.2.1
Estimated elo is similar to Lime v66 on Lucas Chess (CCRL Blitz 2143) - although I tested with 10 second games, so it is likely inaccurate.

Huge thanks for the time and effort put into CCRL.

[bastiball]

Hi,
For the past month and a bit I have been working on a chess engine called Kimbo.
The source code and a windows executable can be found at: https://github.com/JacquesRW/Kimbo/releases/tag/v0.2.1
Estimated elo is similar to Lime v66 on Lucas Chess (CCRL Blitz 2143) - although I tested with 10 second games, so it is likely inaccurate.

Huge thanks for the time and effort put into CCRL.

Congrats and thank you for your engine!

[Gabor Szots]

Hi jamie,

I am going to submit my first Kimbo games for the CCRL blitz list. Before I do, may I know what country you are from? We put it on record whenever available.

Gabor

[Jamie Whiting]

Thanks! I’m from England.

[Darius]

Hi,
For the past month and a bit I have been working on a chess engine called Kimbo.
The source code and a windows executable can be found at: https://github.com/JacquesRW/Kimbo/releases/tag/v0.2.1
Estimated elo is similar to Lime v66 on Lucas Chess (CCRL Blitz 2143) - although I tested with 10 second games, so it is likely inaccurate.

Huge thanks for the time and effort put into CCRL.

Great! My sincere congratulations on the creation of a new and interesting chess engine.
I was able to compile Kimbo easily on my MacBook Pro M1.
https://www8.zippyshare.com/v/MYcPVGZD/file.html

Tests and results soon on my site.
Thank you and I wish you all the best during the further development of Kimbo

[Graham Banks]

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[Jamie Whiting]

Kimbo v0.3.0: https://github.com/JacquesRW/Kimbo/releases/tag/v0.3.0.

Due to starting uni I don't really have much time to work on Kimbo, so I thought I'd release the progress I have made as it gives quite an elo boost. I think I will plan to make one more release, adding mobility, king safety, etc, before starting over during the holidays - the code has become increasingly messy, and a number of naive decisions, regarding e.g. legal move generation, have been growing pains recently.

[Graham Banks]

Kimbo 0.3.0 64-bit v JackyChess 0.13.0 in 16094 - 12 games.

[Jamie Whiting]

Kimbo v1.0.0: https://github.com/JacquesRW/Kimbo/releases/tag/v1.0.0.

This is the final release of Kimbo . I think it'll be around 75 elo stronger than v0.3.0.
Also, I have started working on its successor, akimbo, which is currently stronger than Kimbo, however I'm planning to write a much better tuner and add FRC support over the holidays before making any releases.
Many thanks for testing Kimbo.

[Graham Banks]

Kimbo v1.0.0: https://github.com/JacquesRW/Kimbo/releases/tag/v1.0.0.

This is the final release of Kimbo . I think it'll be around 75 elo stronger than v0.3.0.
Also, I have started working on its successor, akimbo, which is currently stronger than Kimbo, however I'm planning to write a much better tuner and add FRC support over the holidays before making any releases.
Many thanks for testing Kimbo.

Why the name change?

[Jamie Whiting]

Why the name change?

Its completely new, they are very different as akimbo’s goal is to remain under 1500 lines of code.
Sorry the names are almost the same .

[Graham Banks]

Why the name change?

Its completely new, they are very different as akimbo’s goal is to remain under 1500 lines of code.
Sorry the names are almost the same .