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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

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

Features

Board Representation

• 0x88 Board

Search

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

Evaluation

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• 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