Pawny
Pawny,
an UCI compatible open source chess engine by Mincho Georgiev, written in C and licensed under the GPL, first released in September 2009.
Pawny's board was initially represented as
16x16 array, filled with piece codes, complemented with piece lists as array of linked lists [1].
Pawny 1.0, released in May 2013, is an entirely rewritten engine based on bitboards [2].
Features
Board Representation
Search
- Iterative Deepening
- Aspiration Windows
- Alpha-Beta
- Principal Variation Search
- Transposition Table
- Move Ordering
- Selectivity
Evaluation
Misc
Forum Posts
2009
- New open source engine called "Pawny" by Graham Banks, CCC, September 03, 2009
- Re: New open source engine called "Pawny" by Mincho Georgiev, CCC, September 04, 2009
- Pawny - new version (0.11) by Mincho Georgiev, CCC, September 15, 2009
2010 ...
- Pawny 0.15 is out by Mincho Georgiev, CCC, January 01, 2010
- Pawny 0.1.6 by Mincho Georgiev, CCC, February 13, 2010
- Pawny - Updated by Mincho Georgiev, CCC, March 02, 2010
- Pawny 0.2 by Mincho Georgiev, CCC, July 01, 2010
- Pawny 0.2.1 by Mincho Georgiev, CCC, February 01, 2011
- Pawny updated by Mincho Georgiev, CCC, November 24, 2011
- New Pawny by Gabor Szots, CCC, May 31, 2013
2015 ...
- Pawny 1.1 by Graham Banks, CCC, June 14, 2015
- Android Request by Mincho Georgiev, CCC, June 19, 2016
External Links
- Pawny's Homepage (Wayback Machine, September 08, 2009)
- Pawny's Homepage (Wayback Machine, August 05, 2019)
- Pawny's Version History (Wayback Machine, July 19, 2019)
- Index of /chess/engines/Jim Ablett/PAWNY by Jim Ablett, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
- Mac Chess Engines Repository hosted by Julien Marcel
- Pawny in CCRL 40/15
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pawny's Homepage (Wayback Machine, September 08, 2009)
- ↑ Pawny's Version History (Wayback Machine, July 19, 2019)