Light-Blue

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Light Blue

First attempt at a UCI-Compatible Chess Engine Built in Golang

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Current Version Upgrades

Basic Requirements

• DFS
• Alpha-Beta Pruning
• Time Management
• UCI Protocol

S-Tier Upgrades

• Piece Square Tables
• Quiescence Search
• Transposition/Hash Tables

A-Tier Upgrades

• Iterative Deepening
• Move Picking
• Principal-Variation + Null-Window Search
• Aspiration Window
• Null Move Pruning
• Openings
• Tablebases

B-Tier Upgrades

• Lazy SMP (Parallelize Engine using Golang)
• Check Extension
• Static Move Pruning
• Razoring
• Extended Futility Pruning
• Internal Iterative Deepening
• Late Move Pruning
• Late Move Reduction
• Singular Extensions

C-Tier Upgrades

• Killer Moves Heuristic

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Challenged by Will Depue (0hq).

Check out his Tutorial and Starter Code for Javascript and his Engine in Golang.

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Resources

Chessprogramming wiki is the chess engine dev's Library of Alexandria. Definitely go check it out.

This thesis covers some of the topics well, especially Lazy SMP.

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Libraries

Chess package for Go: https://github.com/Sidhant-Roymoulik/chess