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[.jpg) Mora tree [1] Mora, (MORA)

an UCI compliant open source chess engine by Gonzalo Arro, written in C++, licensed under the GPL v3.0. Mora is named after its author’s cat, which happened to be at his desk when he started chess programming for his degree final project [2].

Board Representation

• 8x8 Board
• Classical Bitboard Board-Definition
• Plain Magic Bitboards

Search

• Iterative Deepening
• Alpha-Beta
• Principal Variation Search
• Transposition Table
• Selectivity
  • Null Move Pruning
  • Late Move Reductions
  • Check Extensions
  • Quiescence Search
  • Delta Pruning
• Move Ordering
  • PV-Move
  • Promotions
  • Captures by MVV/LVA

Evaluation

• Material
• Piece-Square Tables
• Mobility
• Pawn Structure
  • Isolated Pawns
  • Doubled Pawns
  • Backward Pawns
  • Passed Pawns
• King Safety
  • Pawn Shelter
  • Pawn Storms
  • Open Files next to the King
  • Enemy Queen Attacks
• Tempo Bonus

Forum Posts#

• New engine: Mora by Gonzalo Arro, CCC, September 14, 2019

External Links#

Chess Engine#

• GitHub - gonzaloarro/MORA-CHESS-ENGINE: UCI Chess Engine in the 2100-2200 ELO range
• MORA 1.0.0 in CCRL 40/4

Misc#

• Mora from Wikipedia
• 1257 Móra from Wikipedia
• Cyclone Mora from Wikipedia
• Mora, Cameroon from Wikipedia
• Mora (canton) from Wikipedia
• Mora, Spain from Wikipedia
• Mora, Sweden from Wikipedia
• Stones of Mora from Wikipedia
• Mora moro from Wikipedia
• Mora (plant) from Wikipedia
• Mora (ship) from Wikipedia
• FreshFabrik - Stealing the Sun, Mora album (2011), YouTube Video

References#

1. ↑ Mora tree, Mora excelsa ( Dimorphandra mora), Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, Image by Ji-Elle, January 19, 2013, Mora (género) - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre (Spanish), Wikimedia Commons
2. ↑ New engine: Mora by Gonzalo Arro, CCC, September 14, 2019
3. ↑ GitHub - gonzaloarro/MORA-CHESS-ENGINE: UCI Chess Engine in the 2100-2200 ELO range - README.md

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