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BenBot - UCI chess engine Author: Ben Vining BenBot - engine information A UCI chess engine. This is a command-line chess playing program, designed to be used with a chess GUI. BenBot 1.7.5 what's new? Bug Fixes Actions permissions (ac26e03) ASAN flags for MSVC (18cdc78) excluding broken/missing sanitizer configs from test matrix (3dc76a8) installing CMake from Kitware releases in Lichess Dockerfile (#463) (cc9331d) not setting CTEST_COVERAGE_COMMAND from Coverage.cmake (9492434) only setting gcov as CTEST_COVERAGE_COMMAND if compiler is gcc (f3b837f) only setting gcov as CTEST_COVERAGE_COMMAND if compiler is gcc (4961295) order of operations in Justfile install command (7c0a52b) removed coverage flags (e6823e4) What's Changed refactor: sanitizers are now build configurations by @benthevining in #466 BenBot 1.5.2 vs other engines: Bit-Genie 9.24 JA 0.5/4 -3 4 Games Cwtch 2 0/4 -4 4 Games Lambergar 1.3 0/4 -4 4 Games Hannibal 20181202 JA 0/4 -4 4 Games Bitbit 1.5 0/4 -4 4 Games...

BenBot - UCI chess engine Author: Ben Vining BenBot - engine information A UCI chess engine. Board representation and move generation is in `libchess/` Evaluation and search is in `libbenbot/` ben-bot/` is the actual engine executable BenBot 1.7.2 what's new? Bug Fixes Docker build [skip ci] (6f08773) BenBot 1.5.2 vs other engines: Bit-Genie 9.24 JA 0.5/4 -3 4 Games Cwtch 2 0/4 -4 4 Games Lambergar 1.3 0/4 -4 4 Games Hannibal 20181202 JA 0/4 -4 4 Games Bitbit 1.5 0/4 -4 4 Games MihanSolo 5.0.0 1.5/2 +1 2 Games Pounce 2.1.3 1/2 +0 2 Games RustyKnight 1.7.1 0.5/2 -1 2 Games Prophet 5.1 0/2 -2 2 Games Crab 4.6.3 JA 0/2 -2 2 Games Stallion GB Edition 0/2 -2 2 Games Minke 2.0.0 0/2 -2 2 Games OliThink 5.11.9 JA 0/2 -2 2 Games Petrel 1.3 JA 0/2 -2 2 Games Laser 1.8 beta JA 0/2 -2 2 Games Maelstrom 3.3.0 0/2 -2 2 Games Alexander 6.0 0/2 -2 2 Games Alexandria 8.1.2 0/2 -2 2 Games Reckless 0.8.0 0/2 -2 2 Games Brainlearn 31 0/2 -2 2 Games Halogen 15.0.0 0/2 -2 2 Games BenBot 1.7.2 download...

BenBot - UCI chess engine Author: Ben Vining BenBot - engine information A UCI chess engine. Board representation and move generation is in `libchess/` Evaluation and search is in `libbenbot/` ben-bot/` is the actual engine executable BenBot 1.4.4 vs other engines: Invictus r391 JA 0/22 -22 22 Games Stockfish dev-20250902 0/15 -15 15 Games Maelstrom 3.3.0 0.5/14 -13 14 Games Sturddle 2.3 0/14 -14 14 Games Reckless 0.8.0 0/14 -14 14 Games Zangdar 4.04.01 0/14 -14 14 Games Quirky 2.0 0/14 -14 14 Games Halogen 15.0.0 0/14 -14 14 Games Heimdall 1.4.1 0/12 -12 12 Games Uralochka 3.42a 0/10 -10 10 Games Wordfish 2.0 dev 010925 0/8 -8 8 Games Revolution-dev 2.20 090925 0/8 -8 8 Games Artemis 18.2TR sl 0/8 -8 8 Games YuliGM Pro 20 0/8 -8 8 Games Spike 1.4.1 0/8 -8 8 Games Claw 2.0-M 0/8 -8 8 Games Revolution 2.0 0/8 -8 8 Games Revolution 1.0 2708225 0/8 -8 8 Games Stockfish dev-20250906 0/7 -7 7 Games DarkSeid 6.7 EE 0/7 -7 7 Games Tactical Titan 5.3 0/7 -7 7 Games BenBot 1.6.2 download

BenBot - UCI chess engine Author: Ben Vining BenBot - engine information A UCI chess engine. Board representation and move generation is in `libchess/` Evaluation and search is in `libbenbot/` ben-bot/` is the actual engine executable v.1.5.2: Bug Fixes build error (7d2671b) pondering fixes (f7ad331) when in ponder mode, search isn't exited until stop or ponderhit (3bfa629) What's Changed Ponder fixes by @benthevining  BenBot 1.5.2 download

BenBot - UCI chess engine Author: Ben Vining BenBot - engine information A UCI chess engine. Board representation and move generation is in `libchess/` Evaluation and search is in `libbenbot/` ben-bot/` is the actual engine executable v.1.4.28: Bug Fixes bump version workflow [ BenBot 1.4.28 download BenBot 1.4.28 for MacOS download

BenBot - UCI chess engine Author: Ben Vining BenBot - engine information A UCI chess engine. Board representation and move generation is in `libchess/` Evaluation and search is in `libbenbot/` ben-bot/` is the actual engine executable BenBot 1.4.4 download

BenBot - UCI chess engine Author: Ben Vining BenBot - engine information A UCI chess engine. Board representation and move generation is in `libchess/` Evaluation and search is in `libbenbot/` ben-bot/` is the actual engine executable BenBot 1.2.16 download

BenBot - UCI chess engine Author: Ben Vining BenBot - engine information A UCI chess engine. Board representation and move generation is in `libchess/` Evaluation and search is in `libbenbot/` ben-bot/` is the actual engine executable BenBot 1.2.13 download from page