DeybisMelendez / NicaraoChess

Basic Chess Engine

NicaraoChess

Nicarao Chess is a basic chess engine written in Go by Deybis Melendez.

Lichess Account (2100 elo blitz).

Features

Communication

• UCI Protocol

Board

• github.com/dylhunn/dragontoothmg

Search

• Negamax Alpha Beta framework

• Iterative Deepening

• Transposition Table

• Move Ordering:

  • Hash Move
  • Killer Heuristic
  • History Heuristic
  • MVV-LVA

• Selectivity:

  • Late Move Reduction (LMR)
  • Quiescence

Evaluation

• Material
• Piece Square Table
• Evaluation of pieces
• Tapered eval
• Basic Draw Evaluation

TODO

• Aspiration Window
• Draw Evaluation
• Mop-up Evaluation
• Internal Iterative Deepening
• Countermove Heuristic

Testers

• Felipe Ulloa (NIC)
• Salvador Paiz (NIC)