theoden8/dummy_chess

UCI chess engine that can outplay intermediate level players.

dummy chess

• Source Code
• Challenge it

building

$ make

features

• fail-soft alpha-beta, iddfs, transposition tables, pvsearch
• null-move reductions, late-move reductions, delta pruning
• syzygy endgame tablebases
• uci partially supported (pondering, hash table size, variants)
• variants:
  • standard
  • chess960
  • crazyhouse

tools

• c++-20
• ncurses interface
• m42 library for magic bitboards
• syzygy tool to generate tablebases
• fathom c++ interface to syzygy tablebases

external links

• https://www.chessprogramming.org/Bitboards - inspiration for performance
• https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html - helps to implement bit-boards

tipping

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