New chess engine: Yakka 1.2



Yakka - UCI chess engine.
Author: CJDalrymple, Rating Chess Engines Diary CEDR=2894

Yakka is a Chess Engine writen in object pascal (Delphi) that implements the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocol.
It is recommended to use a Chess GUI application such as Arena, Banksia GUI Cute Chess.

This project is licenced under the MIT Licence
Future Endevours (TODO)
In no particular order:
  - Much experimenting / tweaking
  - MultiPV
  - Pondering   
  - Singular Extensions
  - Endgame Tablebases
  - NNUE

v.1.2:
Yakka v1.2
8 Feb 2025 release.

Multiple bug fixes & improvements. Changed evaluation from HCE to NNUE.

You can download the precompiled Windows executable: 'Yakka v1.2 x64.exe'
This will run on x86-64 CPU's which support the BMI2 and AVX2 instruction sets.

Yakka 1.1 vs other engines:
Eveann 1.738.5/10+710 Games
Seawall 202409262.5/10-510 Games
Amelia 0.128/8+88 Games
Purple Panda 188/8+88 Games
Sapling 1.1.11.5/8-58 Games
Dirty1.5/8-58 Games
Neuromancer 1.57/7+77 Games
Belette 3.0.02.5/7-27 Games
StoneChess 2024-09-135/5+55 Games
Camel 1.6.05/5+55 Games
Chessplusplus 1.2.05/5+55 Games
Halcyon 15/5+55 Games
Shuffle 5.2.04.5/5+45 Games
Thrawn 2.14.5/5+45 Games
ChessMaster 20233/4+24 Games
Stockfish 170/4-44 Games
YuliGM Strong 1808240/4-44 Games
Zagreus 5.03/3+33 Games
Jence 1.0.23/3+33 Games
Kobol 1.13/3+33 Games
Albatros 1.0.02.5/3+23 Games




 

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