README.md

Weiawaga

A UCI chess engine written in Rust. If you find this repository, come play me on lichess!

https://lichess.org/@/Weiawaga

Features

• Board representation
  • Bitboards
• Move generation
  • Fancy magic bitboard hashing
• Search
  • Principal variation search
  • Lazy SMP
  • Iterative deepening
  • Quiescence search
  • Aspiration windows
  • Reverse futility pruning
  • Null move pruning
  • Check extensions
• NNUE evaluation
• Move ordering
  • Hash move
  • Static exchange evaluation
  • Killer heuristic
  • History heuristic
• Other
  • Zobrist hashing / Transposition table

Move generation inspired by surge. A previous version of this engine written in Java can be found here. The NNUE training code can be found here.

What's a Weiawaga?