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   <h3>Poppy</h3>
 
-  A free and lightweight UCI chess engine.
+  A free and lightweight UCI chess engine
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+  <strong style="color: red;">Not yet ready for general use - Stay tuned for future updates! </strong>
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+  ![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue.svg)
 
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 ## Overview
 
 Poppy is a lightweight chess engine written in Julia as part of a Bachelor's thesis project. Its primary focus is to provide a platform for easy experimentation and research in chess engine optimization. The engine is designed to be straightforward to understand while offering decent performance for analysis and testing purposes.
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+### Current Status
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+The engine is still in the **experimental phase and not yet ready for general use**. The current releases catalog evaluation function models which are being tested independently of their integration into the engine’s search algorithm.
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+### Future Plans
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+I plan to work towards a more stable release in the future!