README.md

A minimax chess player w/

• Move ordering: MVVLVA, History heuristics
• Alpha-beta pruning
• Null Move pruning
• Futility Sruning
• Quiescence Search
• Iterative Deepening
• Aspiration windows
• Multi-principal variations
• Multithreaded
• Fast bitboard

Beginning Game

• Uses an opening book engine w/ ~2k theoretical openings and lines

End Game

• Tablebase

Scoring function based on

• Piece value
• Pawn structure
• Piece mobility
• Piece development
• King safety
• Rook's open files
• Center control
• Bishop pairs
• Outpost knights

Dependencies

Maven JDK 17

Running

mvn compile mvn clean install mvn exec:java

Extra information

Runs Depth _ in a stable time limit DataSets: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ronakbadhe/chess-evaluations