Maverick 0.60 Released

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Today I’m releasing Maverick 0.60. The main changes are as follows:

  • Added support for Chess960
  • Added basic king safety (this makes the playing style much more attractive)
  • Fixed a problem with using the opening book with Arena
  • Fixed an obscure bug which could crash the engine after a stop command
  • Transferred source code to Github (https://github.com/stevemaughan/maverick.git)
  • Made a bazillion tweaks which may, or may not, help!

In self play matches against 0.51 it shows an improvement of about 50 ELO. I’m hoping this will translate to a real-world strength increase of at least 30 ELO.

I’m now about to start working on improving the selective search!

You can download it on the download page