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Go Go Gadget
Go Go Gadget is a UCI-compatible chess engine engineered for performance. It implements efficient board state operations, Zobrist hashing, alpha-beta with quiescence, transposition tables, and common pruning heuristics. It also supports parallel search (YBWC/threaded workers) with shared-state coordination for multi-threaded speedups.
Thesis
High-performance UCI chess engine with optimized search, pruning, and parallel execution for fast, strong analysis.
Key capabilities
- Implements UCI protocol support and FEN parsing for engine interoperability.
- Uses Zobrist hashing with transposition tables to reuse evaluated positions.
- Runs alpha-beta with quiescence and strong move ordering for stable evaluations.
- Adds pruning heuristics (killer, null-move, LMR) to accelerate search depth.
- Supports parallel search (YBWC/threaded workers) with shared-state coordination.
Stack
C++17, UCI
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