A small patch for the Inanis, addressing bugs found by the TalkChess community. The most important one fixes random crashes caused by the move legality check, giving false indications in rare cases. In the result, illegal moves were processed which led to the board state irreversibly corrupted.
Strength: 2750 Elo, Link: https://github.com/Tearth/Inanis/releases/tag/v1.0.1
The first version of Inanis, a brand new chess engine written in Rust, is finally out! I’ve tried to make it as much feature-complete as possible, so it’s fully usable with any GUI supporting UCI protocol. If you find any bug, please make an issue with possibly the most detailed description and steps to reproduce the problem, so I can investigate it.
Strength: 2750 Elo, Link: https://github.com/Tearth/Inanis/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Half-year ago I did a small text about writing chess engines in C# and performance issues related to it, where I presented a few interesting methods of optimizing the engine. Today, I want to extend it a bit by new elements, some of them related to the lastly released .NET 5 - they aren’t game-changers, but can nicely improve some parts of code.
Just a quick announcement - I’ve made a new bitboard viewer, as a backup for the amazing bitboard calculator made by gekomad which supports my chess development since the beginning. I hope it will be helpful for some of you!
Link: https://tearth.dev/bitboard-viewer/ (with source code available here)
Last month was quite busy - I’ve started a new project called Cosette, which is a brand new chess engine written in C# for .NET Core platform. It’s not my first project of this kind (a few years ago I made Proxima b 2.0 (C#), together with even older Proxima b (C++)), so using the gained experience I can finally write a few words about performance tips and tricks, especially in C# language.