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Mora, (MORA) an UCI compliant open source chess engine by Gonzalo Arro, written in C++, licensed under the GPL v3.0. Mora is named after its author's cat, which happened to be at his desk when he started chess programming for his degree final project.

=Features=

Board Representation

 * 8x8 Board
 * Classical Bitboard Board-Definition
 * Plain Magic Bitboards

Search

 * Iterative Deepening
 * Alpha-Beta
 * Principal Variation Search
 * Transposition Table
 * Selectivity
 * Null Move Pruning
 * Late Move Reductions
 * Check Extensions
 * Quiescence Search
 * Delta Pruning
 * Move Ordering
 * PV-Move
 * Promotions
 * Captures by MVV/LVA

Evaluation

 * Material
 * Piece-Square Tables
 * Mobility
 * Pawn Structure
 * Isolated Pawns
 * Doubled Pawns
 * Backward Pawns
 * Passed Pawns
 * King Safety
 * Pawn Shelter
 * Pawn Storms
 * Open Files next to the King
 * Enemy Queen Attacks
 * Tempo Bonus

=Forum Posts=
 * New engine: Mora by Gonzalo Arro, CCC, September 14, 2019

=External Links=

Chess Engine

 * GitHub - gonzaloarro/MORA-CHESS-ENGINE: UCI Chess Engine in the 2100-2200 ELO range
 * MORA 1.0.0 in CCRL 40/4

Misc

 * Mora from Wikipedia
 * 1257 Móra from Wikipedia
 * Cyclone Mora from Wikipedia
 * Mora, Cameroon from Wikipedia
 * Mora (canton) from Wikipedia
 * Mora, Spain from Wikipedia
 * Mora, Sweden from Wikipedia
 * Stones of Mora from Wikipedia
 * Mora moro from Wikipedia
 * Mora (plant) from Wikipedia
 * Mora (ship) from Wikipedia
 * FreshFabrik - Stealing the Sun, Mora album (2011), YouTube Video

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