New chess engine: Serendipity 0.4 (java)

Serendipity

Serendipity, an UCI chess engine written in Java.

Author - Xu-shawn

v.0.4:

To run Serendipity, install the Java Runtime Environment (version >= 8), and make sure that the JRE is under system path. Then, run the program either through directly running the exe or through the command java -jar Serendipity-0.4.jar.

Elo   | 67.78 +- 6.44 (95%)

Conf  | 8.0+0.08s Threads=1 Hash=8MB

Games | N: 4002 W: 1417 L: 646 D: 1939

Penta | [11, 246, 848, 753, 143]

https://chess.aronpetkovski.com/test/2840/

Elo   | 96.29 +- 5.78 (95%)

Conf  | 60.0+0.60s Threads=1 Hash=64MB

Games | N: 4000 W: 1548 L: 467 D: 1985

Penta | [1, 143, 727, 1032, 97]

https://chess.aronpetkovski.com/test/2866/

NOTE: The binaries released earlier today (Aug 15) were accidental uploads of a build of an old development version. The incorrect builds have been taken down and replaced with the correct builds at the time of writing this note. Apologies for the confusion.

Serendipity 0.2 results:

Akira CE 1.12	2/2	+2	2 Games
Drosophila 1.6 JA	2/2	+2	2 Games
DoctorB 1.2.1 JA	2/2	+2	2 Games
Knightx 4.0	2/2	+2	2 Games
Throttle 3.2.2	2/2	+2	2 Games
Javelin 1.0.0	2/2	+2	2 Games
Princhess 0.17.0	1.5/2	+1	2 Games
Bagatur 5.0	1/2	+0	2 Games
Stockfish 20240530	0.5/2	-1	2 Games
Lizard 10.4	0.5/2	-1	2 Games
Vault 0.4.1 JA	0.5/2	-1	2 Games
Stash 35.26 JA	0.5/2	-1	2 Games
SF-PRO 06.06.2024	0.5/2	-1	2 Games
Steel Fighter 2	0.5/2	-1	2 Games
Obsidian 12.29	0/2	-2	2 Games

Windows executable & jar file.

Serendipity 0.4 download