Zevra 2 is free and open-source UCI chess engine.
Compilation commands
make all- creating a build optimized for your CPU (will not work on other PCs)make popcnt- creating a universal build with support for POPCNT instructionsmake nonpopcnt- creating a universal build without the support of the POPCNT instructionmake release- creating a universal builds with POPCNT and without POPCNT instruction
Game level
Last versions of Zevra
# PLAYER : RATING ERROR POINTS PLAYED (%)
1 WyldChess : 2678.1 22.4 813.0 1072 76
2 Zevra v2.4 r380 : 2589.6 21.1 697.0 1083 64
3 Zevra v2.3 r348 popcnt : 2543.0 20.8 617.5 1073 58
4 Galjoen 0.41.2 : 2503.7 20.7 553.5 1071 52
5 CT800 V1.43 64 bit : 2493.8 20.7 540.0 1074 50
6 Zevra v2.2.1 r328 popcnt : 2433.7 20.6 441.5 1070 41
7 Loki 3.5.0 : 2421.5 20.9 424.5 1074 40
8 Zevra v2.1.2 r248 : 2419.0 ---- 419.0 1071 39
9 Teki 2 : 2355.1 21.3 324.0 1072 30
Project inspired
- Chess programming wiki: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page
- Stockfish: https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish
- Ethereal: https://github.com/AndyGrant/Ethereal
Thanks
Guardian, Graham Banks (the creator of many tournaments with different engines), Ratosh (Pirarucu dev.), Daniel Anulliero(Isa dev.), Evgeny Kotlov (Hedhehog dev.), Sergey Kudryavtsev (sdchess.ru creator), Rasmus Althoff (CT800 author).