Velvet Chess Engine is a UCI chess engine written in Rust.
Version 3.2.0 is currently ranked around 3280 Elo (Blitz) and 3200 Elo (40/15) in the Computer Chess Rating Lists (CCRL):
In order to play against Velvet, you need a Chess GUI with support for the UCI protocol.
Starting with v3.3.0 Velvet also supports the Fischer Random Chess (Chess960) variant. This requires a Chess GUI/UCI client which supports the Chess960 extension as described in the UCI specification.
Executables for Windows and Linux can be downloaded from the releases page.
Since Velvet is written in Rust, a manual compilation requires the installation of the Rust tool chain (e.g. using rustup). The installed Rust version must support the Rust 2021 Edition (i.e. v1.56 and upwards).
Then you can compile the engine using cargo:
cargo build --release --bin velvet
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License - see the LICENSE for details.
- The Chess Programming Wiki (CPW) has excellent articles and descriptions
- A big thanks to all the chess engine testers out there