Loki
Loki with a fishing net [1]
Loki,
an UCI compliant open source chess engine by Niels Abildskov, written in C++ 17, first released in February 2021 [2].
The author reports progress on Loki in an own CCC forum thread [3].
Etymology
Loki is named after the god Loki in Norse mythology [4], also a shape shifter who appears in the form of a salmon, a mare, a fly, and possibly an elderly woman named Þökk [5].
Features
Board Representation
Search
- Lazy SMP
- Iterative Deepening
- Aspiration Windows
- Alpha-Beta (Fail-Hard)
- Principal Variation Search
- Transposition Table
- Move Ordering
- Selectivity
Evaluation
Misc
See also
Forum Posts
- Re: New engine releases & news 2021 (Loki 1.0.2) by Niels Abildskov, CCC, February 21, 2021
- Re: New engine releases & news 2021 (Loki 2.0.0) by Niels Abildskov, CCC, March 11, 2021
- Re: New engine releases & news 2021 (Loki 3.0) by Niels Abildskov, CCC, April 13, 2021
- Progress on Loki by Niels Abildskov, CCC, April 16, 2021
- Tuning search parameters by Niels Abildskov, CCC, April 18, 2021
- Staged move generation done right (Progress on Loki)] by Niels Abildskov, CCC, July 23, 2021
External Links
Chess Engine
Misc
- Loki - Wiktionary
- Loki from Wikipedia
- Loki (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- Loki (comics) from Wikipedia
- Loki Entertainment from Wikipedia
- Modern C++ Design - Loki library from Wikipedia
- LOKI from Wikipedia
- Donald Byrd - Loki, Blackjack (1967), YouTube Video
- feat.: Sonny Red, Hank Mobley, Cedar Walton, Walter Booker, Billy Higgins
References
- ↑ Loki with a fishing net, A Norse mythology image from the 18th century Icelandic manuscript SÁM 66, now in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Loki from Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ Re: New engine releases & news 2021 (Loki 1.0.2) by Niels Abildskov, CCC, February 21, 2021
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Progress on Loki by Niels Abildskov, CCC, April 16, 2021
- ↑ BimmerBass/Loki - C++17 chess engine | Why the name?
- ↑ Loki from Wikipedia
- ↑ GitHub - BimmerBass/Loki - C++17 chess engine
