Loki with a fishing net 1
- Loki with a fishing net, A Norse mythology image from the 18th century Icelandic manuscript SÁM 66, now in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Loki from Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons↩︎
Loki,
an UCI compliant open source chess engine by Niels Abildskov, written in C++ 17, first released in February 2021 1. The author reports progress on Loki in an own CCC forum thread 2.
Contents
Etymology
Loki is named after the god Loki in Norse mythology 3, also a shape shifter who appears in the form of a salmon, a mare, a fly, and possibly an elderly woman named Þökk 4.
Features
Board Representation
Search
- Lazy SMP
- Iterative Deepening
- Aspiration Windows
- Alpha-Beta (Fail-Hard)
- Principal Variation Search
- Transposition Table
- Move Ordering
- Selectivity
Evaluation
Misc
See also
- Freyr
- Thor's Hammer
Forum Posts
- Re: New engine releases & news 2021 (Loki 1.0.2) by Niels Abildskov, CCC, February 21, 2021
- Re: New engine releases & news 2021 (Loki 2.0.0) by Niels Abildskov, CCC, March 11, 2021
- Re: New engine releases & news 2021 (Loki 3.0) by Niels Abildskov, CCC, April 13, 2021
- Progress on Loki by Niels Abildskov, CCC, April 16, 2021
- Tuning search parameters by Niels Abildskov, CCC, April 18, 2021
- Staged move generation done right (Progress on Loki)] by Niels Abildskov, CCC, July 23, 2021
External Links
Chess Engine
Misc
- Loki - Wiktionary
- Loki from Wikipedia
- Loki (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- Loki (comics) from Wikipedia
- Loki Entertainment from Wikipedia
- Modern C++ Design - Loki library from Wikipedia
- LOKI from Wikipedia
- Donald Byrd - Loki, Blackjack (1967), YouTube Video
feat.: Sonny Red, Hank Mobley, Cedar Walton, Walter Booker, Billy Higgins
References
Re: New engine releases & news 2021 (Loki 1.0.2) by Niels Abildskov, CCC, February 21, 2021↩︎
Progress on Loki by Niels Abildskov, CCC, April 16, 2021↩︎