25,161
edits
Changes
Created page with "'''Home * Engines * Velvet''' FILE:Velvet warp.svg|border|right|thumb| Illustration depicting the manufacture of velvet fabric <ref>[https://commons.wikim..."
'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Engines]] * Velvet'''
[[FILE:Velvet warp.svg|border|right|thumb| Illustration depicting the manufacture of velvet fabric <ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Velvet_warp.svg Image] by Vladsinger, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Velvet''', (Velvet Chess Engine)<br/>
an [[UCI]] compatible [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engine]] by [[Martin Honert]], written in [[Rust]],
licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL v3.0]]. The first release in August 2020 was based on the author's previous web-based engine [[Wasabi]]
<ref>[https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/tag/v1.0.0 Release v1.0.0 · mhonert/velvet-chess · GitHub]</ref>.
Velvet v2.0.0, released in July 2021, features [[NNUE]] [[Evaluation|evaluation]] along with [[Magic Bitboards|magic bitboards]] <ref>[https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/tag/v2.0.0 Release v2.0.0 · mhonert/velvet-chess · GitHub]</ref>.
=Selected Features=
<ref>[https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases Releases · mhonert/velvet-chess · GitHub]</ref>
==[[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]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning]]
** [[Reverse Futility Pruning]]
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE Pruning]]
** [[Late Move Reductions]]
** [[Check Extensions]]
** [[Singular Extensions]] (v3.1.0)
** [[Quiescence Search]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[Hash Move]]
** [[MVV-LVA]]
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
** [[Countermove Heuristic]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[NNUE]] (v2.0.0)
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=78666 Velvet 3.1.0 for the GRL] by [[Ed Schroder|Rebel]], [[CCC]], November 15, 2021
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess GitHub - mhonert/velvet-chess: Velvet Chess Engine - written in Rust]
* [https://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/4040/cgi/compare_engines.cgi?family=Velvet&print=Rating+list&print=Results+table&print=LOS+table&print=Ponder+hit+table&print=Eval+difference+table&print=Comopp+gamenum+table&print=Overlap+table&print=Score+with+common+opponents Velvet] at [[CCRL|CCRL 40/15]]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_(disambiguation) Velvet (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet Velvet from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground The Velvet Underground] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Goes_On_(Velvet_Underground_song) What Goes On], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBi-irlCOzE|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Open Source]]
[[Category:GPL]]
[[Category:Rust]]
[[Category:UCI]]
[[Category:X64]]
[[Category:PC]]
[[Category:Windows]]
[[Category:Linux]]
[[Category:NNUE]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[FILE:Velvet warp.svg|border|right|thumb| Illustration depicting the manufacture of velvet fabric <ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Velvet_warp.svg Image] by Vladsinger, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Velvet''', (Velvet Chess Engine)<br/>
an [[UCI]] compatible [[:Category:Open Source|open source chess engine]] by [[Martin Honert]], written in [[Rust]],
licensed under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL v3.0]]. The first release in August 2020 was based on the author's previous web-based engine [[Wasabi]]
<ref>[https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/tag/v1.0.0 Release v1.0.0 · mhonert/velvet-chess · GitHub]</ref>.
Velvet v2.0.0, released in July 2021, features [[NNUE]] [[Evaluation|evaluation]] along with [[Magic Bitboards|magic bitboards]] <ref>[https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/tag/v2.0.0 Release v2.0.0 · mhonert/velvet-chess · GitHub]</ref>.
=Selected Features=
<ref>[https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases Releases · mhonert/velvet-chess · GitHub]</ref>
==[[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]]
** [[Null Move Pruning]]
** [[Futility Pruning]]
** [[Reverse Futility Pruning]]
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE Pruning]]
** [[Late Move Reductions]]
** [[Check Extensions]]
** [[Singular Extensions]] (v3.1.0)
** [[Quiescence Search]]
* [[Move Ordering]]
** [[Hash Move]]
** [[MVV-LVA]]
** [[Static Exchange Evaluation]]
** [[Killer Heuristic]]
** [[History Heuristic]]
** [[Countermove Heuristic]]
==[[Evaluation]]==
* [[NNUE]] (v2.0.0)
=Forum Posts=
* [https://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=78666 Velvet 3.1.0 for the GRL] by [[Ed Schroder|Rebel]], [[CCC]], November 15, 2021
=External Links=
==Chess Engine==
* [https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess GitHub - mhonert/velvet-chess: Velvet Chess Engine - written in Rust]
* [https://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/4040/cgi/compare_engines.cgi?family=Velvet&print=Rating+list&print=Results+table&print=LOS+table&print=Ponder+hit+table&print=Eval+difference+table&print=Comopp+gamenum+table&print=Overlap+table&print=Score+with+common+opponents Velvet] at [[CCRL|CCRL 40/15]]
==Misc==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_(disambiguation) Velvet (disambiguation) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet Velvet from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground The Velvet Underground] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Goes_On_(Velvet_Underground_song) What Goes On], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBi-irlCOzE|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[Engines|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Open Source]]
[[Category:GPL]]
[[Category:Rust]]
[[Category:UCI]]
[[Category:X64]]
[[Category:PC]]
[[Category:Windows]]
[[Category:Linux]]
[[Category:NNUE]]
[[Category:Music]]
