/wukong

UCI chess engine by Code Monkey King

Primary LanguageCMIT LicenseMIT

This project has been supercede by a new project

This project is no longer maintained, see Wukong JS instead -
a javascript port of Wukong with UCI support: https://github.com/maksimKorzh/wukongJS

Wukong

Modular & didactic UCI chess engine written by Code Monkey King

Strength CCRL 1474 ELO

https://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_details.cgi?print=Details&each_game=1&eng=Wukong%202020-09-16%2064-bit#Wukong_2020-09-16_64-bit

Features ( absolutely modular - movegen/search/eval )

  • 0x88 board
  • pseudo-legal move generator
  • copy/make approach for making moves
  • material + positional scores + double pawns penalty evaluation
  • negamax search with alha-beta pruning
  • PV table
  • killer moves/history moves move ordering
  • iterative deepening
  • material and PST evaluation
  • fixed depth UCI protocol (plays whatever but fixed depth mode with hardcoded 6 plies)

Limitations

  • no 3 fold repetition detection
  • no 50 move rule detection