Rhubarb

Engine that supports the Universal Chess Interface. To build the engine (on Linux or MacOS)

git clone https://github.com/Daniel-Alp/rhubarb
cd rhubarb
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cd ..
cmake --build build

Features

Evaluation

• Piece-square table
• Tapered evaluation

Search

• Negamax with alpha-beta pruning
• Transposition table
• Iterative deepening
• Principal variation search
• Quiescence search
• Null move pruning
• Static null move pruning
• Aspiration windows
• Late move reduction

Move ordering

• Move from the transposition table
• Captures and then promotions (MVV-LVA)
• Killer moves
• History heuristic