Deepov

C++ Chess Engine, UCI compliant

Board representation

• Bitboards
• Magic bitboards

Search

• Iterative Deepening
• Transposition Table
• Move ordering
• MVV/LVA
• SEE
• Killer moves
• Selectivity
• Null Move Pruning
• Check extensions
• LMR
• Quiescence Search

Evaluation

• Material
• Piece Square table
• Mobility
• Pawn structure

Useful links:

• To start with bitboards: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~psilord/blog/data/chess-pages/
• The most complete ressource on chess programming : http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com
• Magic bitboards explained: http://www.rivalchess.com/magic-bitboards/
• UCI protocol documentation: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/UCIProtocol.html
• FEN editor: http://en.lichess.org/editor
• Game analysis from PGN: http://en.lichess.org/paste
• Bit Twiddling Hacks: https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
• BitBoard Calculator: http://cinnamonchess.altervista.org/bitboard_calculator/Calc.html
• Write Chess Programming in 99 steps: http://aghaznawi.comuf.com/computer%20chess/winglet/

Other Open Source C++ Engines:

• StockFish: https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish/
• Faile: http://faile.sourceforge.net/
• Senpai: https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Senpai
• Maverick: http://www.chessprogramming.net/downloads/