Duch Chess Engine

Duch is a UCI Chess Engine written in Java. Version 1.0.0 is ranked around 2000 ELO

🖱️ Play it

In order to play with Duch, you need a chess GUI that supports UCI protocol like cute-chess or Arena

Motivation

My goal was to learn about chess programming and create an engine that beats me in chess. Now, it beats me every time.

🔎 Features

• Bitboards
• Magic Bitboards
• Transposition Table
• Zobrist Key Hasing
• Static Exchange Evaluation
• Negamax Search
  • Alpha-beta pruning
  • Late move pruning
  • Late move reductions
  • Razoring pruning
  • Futility pruning
  • Iterative deepening
• Move Ordering
  • Hash Move
  • Most valuable victim / Least valuable attacker
  • Killer moves
  • History Heuristics
• Evaluation
  • Material value
  • Material position
  • Piece mobility
  • Pawn evaluation

⛏️ Building

Duch is compiled using Maven

mvn package

🧑‍💻 Author

• Sebastian Pravda

Contributing

Any contribution or help is welcomed.

Please note

This is just a hobby project. There might be some bugs in the code.