dragontooth

README

Dragontooth | Dylan D. Hunn

This project is currently in beta state.

Dragontooth is a fast, UCI-compliant chess engine written in Go. The successor to my previous engine, Dragontooth is the first highly-parallel Go chess engine. It uses state-of-the-art techniques, including magic bitboards, fully-legal move generation, highly parallel search, and automatic parameter tuning.

Additionally, Dragontooth has some unique features. It is 100% modular, such that the move generator and associated utilities are packaged as a library. Moreover, the code is written with a focus on readability, so it can serve as a "reference" engine.

Where can I download compiled binaries/executables?

Compiled versions for several platforms are available in the releases section. This repo contains the source code.

Repo summary

Here is a summary of the important files and folders in the repo:

Package	Description
main	This is the UCI entrypoint that handles communication with the GUI.
evaluate	This package handles board evaluation.
ttable	This package implements the transposition table.
search	This package provides the primary alpha-beta search functions.

Building Dragontooth from source

This project requires Go 1.9. As of the time of writing, 1.9 is still a pre-release version. You can get it by cloning the official Go Repo, and building it yourself.

To build Dragontooth from source, make sure your GO_PATH environment variable is correctly set, and install it using go get:

go get github.com/dylhunn/dragontooth

Alternatively, you can clone it yourself, but this will require you to clone the dependency as well, and configure them at the correct paths:

git clone https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontooth.git
git clone https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontoothmg.git

Documentation

You can find the documentation here.