I coded my own Chess Engine!

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Over the past week or so, I've been coding my own Chess Engine from scratch in the Rust programming language, it's named Maxwell, and I wanna get some feedback to see how it plays!

If you wanna play it, I've built Windows and Linux binaries which you can download here

https://github.com/eboatwright/MaxwellChess/releases/tag/v2.0

The game window can't save games currently, so if you could record the game in https://chess.com/analysis (without looking at Stockfish of course XD) and post the games here, that'd be amazing! grin.png

I'll be adding the submitted games to this collection:

https://www.chess.com/library/collections/maxwells-games-my-chess-engine-2FFU82NM4

Update: I've just released v2.0, and have updated this post accordingly

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Yeah right

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how would I run it just download the files?

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Siiiiiiike wrote:

how would I run it just download the files?

I updated the link to take you straight to the release, so just click the "Maxwell.Chess.v1.0.Windows.zip" if you're on Windows

If you're on Mac you should be able to run it with Wine

Then extract the .zip file and run the maxwell_chess file grin.png

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It says it's an untrustworthy sight and doesn't let me run it. sad.png

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Oh dang, that's probably your firewall dis-allowing it from running. You should be able to right-click it and select "Run as Administrator" or something like that, I promise it's not a virus hahaha (You don't have to run it you have no reason to believe me hahaha)

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A game a friend played against him (Game Review evaluated my friend at 1100, and Maxwell v1.0 at 1600!) https://www.chess.com/analysis/library/5KcrUxx2HC?tab=review

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Wow this is cool!

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Thanks! I'm currently in the process of v2.0, hopefully I can make some good improvements!

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v2.0 is out!

It's alot stronger than v1.0, and has alot of features the old version didn't have, like scrolling through previous moves, and a promotion UI

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Cool!

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v2.1 is out!!

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Maxwell v2.2 is out!