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Gochess,

a didactic open source chess engine by Franziskus Domig, written in Golang, released under the MIT license [1]. It was inspired by chess-at-nite ( C/C++) and uses most of its concepts [2]

Screenshot#

Gochess’ command line interface: ASCII-board with Unicode Pieces [3]

Unicode#

[4]

symbolsUnicode = []string {
  ".",
  "♙", "♘", "♗", "♖", "♕", "♔",
  "♟", "♞", "♝", "♜", "♛", "♚",
}

Features#

Board Representation

• 0x88 Board

Search

[5]

• Iterative Deepening
• Principal Variation Search
• Quiescence Search
• Check Extensions

Evaluation

[6]

• Material Balance
• Piece-Square Tables
• Doubled Pawn

See also#

• chess-at-nite

External Links#

Chess Engine#

• GitHub - fdomig/gochess: A chess engine written in Go

Namesakes#

• GitHub - jonpchin/gochess: Online real time chess web server using websockets
• GitHub - anastasop/gochess: A library for handling chess games. It will support PGN, FEN, UCI

References#

1. ↑ gochess/LICENSE at master · fdomig/gochess · GitHub
2. ↑ gochess/README.md at master · fdomig/gochess · GitHub
3. ↑ gochess/gochess.png at master · fdomig/gochess · GitHub
4. ↑ ochess/piece.go at master · fdomig/gochess · GitHub
5. ↑ gochess/search.go at master · fdomig/gochess · GitHub
6. ↑ gochess/eval.go at master · fdomig/gochess · GitHub

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