Karballo is a Kotlin version of the Carballo Chess Engine, a Java chess engine (http://github.com/albertoruibal/carballo).
Karballo has only a command line UCI interface that can be used in chess interfaces like SCID or Arena.
The source code is hosted at https://github.com/albertoruibal/karballo with a MIT license, you are free to use, distribute or modify the code.
- Based on bitboards with a magic bitboard move generator, it also includes code for magic number generation
- Move iterator sorting moves with four killer move slots, Static Exchange Evaluation (SEE), Most Valuable Victim/Least Valuable Aggressor (MVV/LVA) and history heuristic
- PVS searcher
- Aspiration window, moves only one border of the window if it falls out
- Transposition Table (TT) with zobrist keys (it uses two zobrist keys per board to avoid collisions) and multiprobe
- Quiescent Search (QS) with only good or equal captures (according to SEE) and limited check generation
- Internal Iterative Deepening to improve sorting
- Extensions: Check (only with positive SEE), pawn push, mate threat and singular move
- Reductions: Late Move Reductions (LMR)
- Pruning: Null move pruning, static null move pruning, futility pruning and history pruning
- Pluggable evaluator function, distinct functions provided: the Simplified Evaluator Function, other Complete and other Experimental
- Selectable ELO level with an UCI parameter
- Supports Chess960
- Polyglot opening book support; in the code it includes Fruit's Small Book
- FEN notation import/export support, also EPD support for testing
- JUnit used for testing, multiple test suites provided (Perft, BS2830, BT2630, LCTII, WinAtChess, etc.)
Carballo uses the Gradle build system with a gradle wrapper.
Build the UCI interface creating a karballo.jar in karballo-jvm/:
cd karballo-jvm
../gradlew clean proguard
java -jar karballo.jar
Js is a limited version (without opening book and only with a thread) that runs in NodeJS
cd karballo-js
npm install
../gradlew clean assemble
This generates a CommonJS module in js/karballo.js
cd karballo-js
node js/karballo.js
- Alberto Alonso Ruibal: http://www.alonsoruibal.com