https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontooth

A Go chess engine.
https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontooth

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A Go chess engine.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontooth
• Owner: dylhunn
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2017-05-09T09:42:54.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-05-24T19:28:35.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-14T16:48:38.317Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: chess, chess-engine, uci
• Language: Go
• Size: 1.04 MB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Dragontooth | Dylan D. Hunn

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**This project is currently in beta state.**

Dragontooth is a fast, UCI-compliant chess engine written in Go. The successor to my [previous engine](https://github.com/dylhunn/sabertooth-source), Dragontooth is the first highly-parallel Go chess engine. It uses state-of-the-art techniques, including magic bitboards, fully-legal move generation, highly parallel search, and automatic parameter tuning.

Additionally, Dragontooth has some unique features. It is 100% modular, such that the [move generator and associated utilities](https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontoothmg) are packaged as a library. Moreover, the code is written with a focus on readability, so it can serve as a "reference" engine.

**Where can I download compiled binaries/executables?**

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Compiled versions for several platforms are available in [the releases section](https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontooth/releases). This repo contains the source code.

Repo summary

============

Here is a summary of the important files and folders in the repo:

| **Package**         | **Description**                                                                                                                                         |

|--------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

| main       | This is the UCI entrypoint that handles communication with the GUI. |

| evaluate       | This package handles board evaluation. |

| ttable      | This package implements the transposition table. |

| search      | This package provides the primary alpha-beta search functions. |

Building Dragontooth from source

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This project requires Go 1.9. As of the time of writing, 1.9 is still a pre-release version. You can get it by cloning the official [Go Repo](https://github.com/golang/go), and building it yourself.

To build Dragontooth from source, make sure your `GO_PATH` environment variable is correctly set, and install it using `go get`:

    go get github.com/dylhunn/dragontooth

Alternatively, you can clone it yourself, but this will require you to clone [the dependency](https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontoothmg) as well, and configure them at the correct paths:

    git clone https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontooth.git

    git clone https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontoothmg.git

Documentation

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You can find the documentation [here](https://godoc.org/github.com/dylhunn/dragontooth).