Wowl

Wowl is a UCI chess engine written in C++.

Board representation

• 10x12 mailbox

Search

• Iterative deepening with aspiration window
• Transposition table
• Quiescence search
• MVV-LVA
• SEE
• Killer moves
• History heuristic
• Null move pruning
• Reverse futility pruning
• Futility pruning
• Delta pruning
• Late move reduction

Evaluation

• Material evaluation with piece-square tables
• King safety
• Space and center control
• Mobility
• Pawn structure
• Passed pawns