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Development notes, tournament observations, and thoughts on chess engine programming.
VeryChess League — macOS ARM64 Chess Engine Championship
A continuous series of tournaments for chess engines that run natively on Apple Silicon. Qualification splits engines into leagues of 15, and promotion and relegation decide who moves up or down — game by game, tournament by tournament.
VeryChess: A Chess Engine 30 Years in the Making
The project I first imagined nearly 30 years ago has finally been released. The story behind VeryChess, plus honest answers on open source, code originality, what's unique, and how it differs from strong modern engines.