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Chess engine: Athena 1.0.1

 


Athena is a UCI compatible chess engine with an elo rating of approximately 1670 on the CCRL blitz index.

Features
Negamax
Alpha Beta Pruning
Quiescence Move Search
Killer Move Ordering Heuristic
MVV_LVA Ordering Heuristic
History Move Ordering Heuristic
Null Move Pruning
Delta Pruning
Principal Variation Search
Transposition Table
Aspriation Windows
Extensions
Check Extensions
Recapture Extensions
Pawn Promotion Extensions
Iterative Deepening
Transposition Table
Static Exchange Evaluation Pruning (SEE)
Piece Square Tables
Opening Book
Building Athena
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

When running the newly made executable, ensure that /books/ is in Athena's current working directory, otherwise she won't be able to use the opening book.




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