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Milky 0.2.0 - new chess engine



Milky - UCI chess engine
Author: Willians Faria (wllfaria)

Strength
More tests were realized against the previous release of Milky. A batch of 4000 games were played between the two engines on a 1+0.1 time control. The results are below:
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Results of milky-v0.2.0 vs milky-v0.1.0 (1+0.1, NULL, NULL, openings.epd):
Elo: 59.20 +/- 8.40, nElo: 77.37 +/- 10.77
LOS: 100.00 %, DrawRatio: 36.90 %, PairsRatio: 2.09
Games: 4000, Wins: 1697, Losses: 1022, Draws: 1281, Points: 2337.5 (58.44 %)
Ptnml(0-2): [95, 314, 738, 527, 326], WL/DD Ratio: 2.35
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Using the estimate of 2000 Elo from the previous version, Milky plays at an estimated ~2059 Elo.

Milky 0.2.0, what's new in this version?

Changelog [0.2.0] - 2025-05-23
Features
Null move pruning and using best move on ordering
Miscellaneous Tasks
Updating justfile with better release workflow
Making insta a dev-dependency
Adding testing files to gitignore



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