My lockdown hobby was writing a chess engine, and learning Python and Rust in the process. Currently Odonata is available to play as a bot on Lichess, though Odonata only plays blitz and bullet games right now, as she's running on my media centre, and Netflix stutters if she's thinking too hard...
I started Decemeber 2020. Python and Rust are very different from Java, which I had programmed maybe 10 years previous. Certainly my first efforts at Rust are not very clean, clever or idiomatic, but the code improves as I revist areas to build improvements.
I'm aware that this is now yet another chess engine, with yet another set of Python bindings. In part this is because the project was intended as a learning exercise, but also there did not appear to be a Python native extension available.
Rating CEDR=2602 Author: Andy Watkins
v.0.4.0:
Evaluation of king tropism, passed pawn on 7th
Bishop and knight outposts
Rook batteries
History table
Xray attacks considered in SEE
Texel tuning uses Rayon library for parallel evals (138 M/sec)
Check for insufficient material in quiesensce
CLOP tuning of non-eval params
Support for "searchmoves" and "info hashfull" in UCI interface
ELO in the region of 2300
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