Tunguska

Tunguska is a UCI-compliant chess engine written in C++11.

A compiled 64-bit binary for Mac OS X is included.

Compiling

The flags -O2 and -DNDEBUG are important for performance:

g++ -std=c++11 -O2 -DNDEBUG *.cpp -o tunguska_1_0

Engine Strenght

It plays around 2150-2200 ELO.

To Dos

• PVS + aspiration windows
• Pawn and evaluation hashtables
• Improve evaluation code (it's too simply by now)
• Improve qsearch
• Improve prunning and move ordering
• Tunning
• Provide a makefile

Special thanks

• The Chess Programming Wiki, which is a great resource for beginners like me: https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com
• The Programming a chess engine in C series of videos, which helped me a lot: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ1QII7yudbc-Ky058TEaOstZHVbT-2hg