A very small C# chess engine written for Sebastian Lague's Tiny Chess Bots Challenge. Estimated to be around 2750 Elo on the CCRL Blitz list.
- Based entirely on Sebastian Lague's framework
- Principal variation search
- Quiescence search (integrated with main search)
- Transposition table
- Aspiration windows
- Pruning
- Null move pruning
- Reverse futility pruning
- Delta pruning
- Futility pruning
- Late move pruning
- Reductions
- Late move reduction
- History reduction
- Internal iterative reduction
- Extensions
- Check extension
- Move ordering
- TT move
- MVV-LVA
- History heuristic (with gravity)
- Phased evaluation
- Material
- Mirrored piece square tables
- King-relative pawn
- Slider mobility
- Virtual queen mobility
- Friendly pawns in front of a piece
- Tempo
- Tuned on an evenly-mixed combination of Frozenight NNUE data and
lichess-big3-resolved
- Based on a fixed percentage of remaining time
- Aborts after an iteration if a "soft" limit is exceeded
- Aborts during an iteration if a "hard" limit is exceeded
