Velvet
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Velvet, (Velvet Chess Engine)
an UCI compatible open source chess engine by Martin Honert, written in Rust,
licensed under the GPL v3.0. The first release in August 2020 was based on the author's previous web-based engine Wasabi
[2].
Velvet v2.0.0, released in July 2021, features NNUE evaluation along with magic bitboards [3].
Contents
Selected Features
Board Representation
- Bitboards
- Obstruction Difference (v1.1.0)
- Magic Bitboards (v2.0.0)
Search
- Iterative Deepening
- Aspiration Windows
- Lazy SMP (v3.0.0)
- Principal Variation Search
- Transposition Table
- Selectivity
- Move Ordering
Evaluation
- NNUE (v2.0.0)
Forum Posts
- Velvet 3.1.0 for the GRL by Rebel, CCC, November 15, 2021
External Links
Chess Engine
Misc
- Velvet (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- Velvet from Wikipedia
- The Velvet Underground - What Goes On, YouTube Video