aconcagua

README

Aconcagua

Chess engine in go - WIP

Setup:

git clone https://github.com/gabtar/aconcagua
cd aconcagua
go build .

Builds an aconcagua executable, a uci compatible engine that can be used with a gui like arena gui or pychess

TODO:

• Add a makefile

Move generation:

• Try to improve make and unmake move
• Add an specific function to get only captures/checks moves for quiescent
• Use a move list/array, so as to get rid of 'appends' in moves(it should improve search performance)

Evaluation:

• Refactor to use PeSTO evaluation function(tapered eval)

Search:

• Aspiration windows
• Principal variation search
• Quiescent search
• Limit quiescent (maybe by time/nodes...)
• Improve move ordering
  • Killer moves
  • History heruistic
  • Improve MVV-LVA
• Add checkmate, stealmate, etc detection while searching
• Detect threefold repetition - use zobrist hash
• Refactor Transposition table

Engine

• Create an engine struct with main parameters(current best move, depth, etc)
• Improve error handling in uci commands (eg. invalid fen, etc)
• Add/improve remaining uci commands