Gochess

A chess engine written in Go.

Well, this is a chess engine highly inspired by chess-at-nite which I have written several years ago with my friends in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since I am interested in writting an application in Golang I thought of doing chess.

Installation

$ go get github.com/fdomig/gochess
$ godep restore

You might need to install godep with github.com/tools/godep first.

Run

$ gochess

You then may just enter a move in the coordinate notation (e.g. e2e4).

Commands

auto, a      let the engine play against itself

do, d        search the best available move and play it

eval, e      displays the current board's score 

fen, f       displays the current board position in the Forsyth Edwards Notation (FEN)

new, n       start a new game

moves, m     show a list of all possible moves

print, p     shows the current board position

quit, q      quits this game and the application

search, s    search the current board position for the best possible move

undo, u      undo the last move

Ideas

• Use algebraic notation for input and display
• Make multi threaded with channels
• Use zobrist hash vor repetitions, score cache, etc.

Contribute

Feel free to contribute and fix things via GitHub Pull Requests.