mubashirtanveerayon / Schneizel-Chess-Engine

A hobby project.

Schneizel Chess Engine

A UCI complient chess engine written in Java.

Features

• Integrable with your favourite GUI
• Can be used as a chess library
• Faster and bug free move generation
• PGN utilities
• Search time constraints
• Can play bullet, blitz, rapid
• Analysis mode
• Less resource consumption

Technical details

Schneizel v2 is a mailbox chess engine. That means, it takes the array based approach for board representation.

Search

• AB pruning
• Iterative deepening
• Internal move ordering
• Transposition table (caches legal moves, capture moves and evalutation)
• Quiescence search

Evaluation

• Piece square table
• Pawn chain
• Passed pawn
• Material count
• Cornering opponent's king in endgames

Does not feature

• GUI

Example project

My Chess Game

Things To Note

• Schneizel v2 performs best when it is paired with JDK 8.

License

This project is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License