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BBC (Bit Board Chess)

• UCI chess engine by Code Monkey King
  
• written for didactic purposes and
  
• covered in 82 YouTube video series

YouTube tutorials

Features

• bitboard board representation
• pre-calculated attack tables
• magic bitboards for sliding pieces
• encoding moves as integers
• copy/make approach for making moves
• negamax search with alpha beta pruning
• PV/killer/history move ordering
• iterative deepening
• PVS (Principle Variation Search)
• LMR (Late Move Reduction)
• NMP (Null Move Pruning)
• Transposition table (20MB fixed size)
• Material/PST (Positional Square Tables) evaluation
• Double/isolated/passed pawns evaluation
• Bishop & Queen mobility evaluation
• Very basic king safety
• UCI protocol