Velvet Chess Engines

Velvet Chess Engine Series

"Velvet Chess Engine is a UCI chess engine written in Rust.

Version 7.0.0 is currently ranked around 3580 Elo (Blitz) and 3485 Elo (40/15) in the Computer Chess Rating Lists (CCRL):

CCRL Blitz
CCRL 40/15

In Fischer Random Chess, the single-threaded rating is around 3750 Elo:

CCRL 40/2 FRC

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.

v4.0.1 also added support for DFRC ("Double Fischer Random Chess").
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Executables for Windows, macOS and Linux can be downloaded from the releases page.



Velvet v1.0 https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/download/v1.0.0/velvet-v1.0.0-x86_64-modern.exe

https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/download/v1.0.0/velvet-v1.0.0-x86_64-popcnt.exe



Velvet v4.1.0 https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/download/v4.1.0/velvet-v4.1.0-x86_64-nopopcnt.exe

https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/download/v4.1.0/velvet-v4.1.0-x86_64-sse4-popcnt.exe



Velvet v6.0.0 https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/download/v6.0.0/velvet-v6.0.0-x86_64-nopopcnt.exe

https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/download/v6.0.0/velvet-v6.0.0-x86_64-sse4-popcnt.exe



Velvet v7.3.0 https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/download/v7.3.0/velvet-v7.3.0-x86_64-nopopcnt.exe

https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/download/v7.3.0/velvet-v7.3.0-x86_64-avx2.exe

Velvet 8.0.0_nn_x64

v8.0.0 https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/download/v8.0.0/velvet-v8.0.0-x86_64-nopopcnt.exe

v8.0.0 AVX https://github.com/mhonert/velvet-chess/releases/download/v8.0.0/velvet-v8.0.0-x86_64-avx2.exe