Dragontooth v0.1 "Azazel"

This is a preview version of the Dragontooth chess engine, a new open-source chess engine written entirely in Google Go. It includes the following features:

• Partial UCI support
  • Customizable hashtable size (default: 512 MB)
• A magic-bitboard-based legal move generator
  • Uses pinned piece tables for fast generation
• A simple evaluation function
  • Piece-square tables
  • Draw by 50 move rule
• Simple alpha-beta search with hash-move and IID move ordering
• A simple, lock-free transposition table implementation
  • Non-probing, always-replace

Several additional features are partially implemented or in-development:

• A simple parallel search function
  • Shared hash table approach
  • Customizable number of search threads
• Draw detection by repetition

This version of dragontooth depends on dragontoothmg library release version 1.1, if you wish to compile it yourself.

Compiled versions are available below for a variety of systems. If you have a different OS or architecture (such as ARM), you can compile it from source for any platform the Go programming language supports.

Most Windows users should download dragontooth-0.1-azazel-WINDOWS-x64-64bit.exe.