GoBit

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GoBit, a didactic open source chess engine by CaroKanns, written in the Go programming language, and introduced in a series of 31 YouTube videos in 2018. GoBit features state of the art search techniques and is based on bitboards.

=External Links=

GitHub

 * GitHub - carokanns/GoBit: A Chess Program written in Go (youtube series)

Video Tutorials

 * A Chess Engine in Go YouTube Videos
 * 1) Chess engine design
 * 2) Building blocks
 * 3) The UCI protocol » UCI
 * 4) More uci-commands
 * 5) the position command
 * 6) board representation » Board Representation
 * 7) the Board » Chessboard
 * 8) rename BinGo to GoBit
 * 9) Homework with position » Chess Position
 * 10) Parse the moves part in fen » Moves
 * 11) Make move on board
 * 12) handle the UCI go-command
 * 13) generate rook moves (simple)
 * 14) Magic BitBoards explained » Magic Bitboards
 * 15) generate moves w magic bitBoards » Move Generation
 * 16) Generate moves for K and Kn » King Pattern, Knight Pattern
 * 17) generate pawn moves » Pawn Pattern and Properties
 * 18) Three rules about check » Check
 * 19) Look Who's Playing!
 * 20) The search and AlphaBeta » Alpha-Beta
 * 21) The search and AlphaBeta cont.
 * 22) Killers, iterative deepening, simple movegen » Killer Heuristic, Iterative Deepening, Move Generation
 * 23) some tests
 * 24) see and qs » Static Exchange Evaluation, Quiescence Search
 * 25) Transposition table » Transposition Table
 * 26) Transp table in use
 * 27) node types & some tests » Node Types
 * 28) Movegen, history tab, tests » Move Generation
 * 29) Null move & tests » Null Move Pruning
 * 30) Perft and more » Perft
 * 31) Late Move Reduction » Late Move Reductions

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