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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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