Blaze (formerly Trappist)

Note

This project is still under development and may require a certain envirnoment to be compiled and run

Blaze is a UCI compatible chess engine written in C

Build

make release

Technical details

Blaze is inspired by the didactic engine QBBEngine by Fabio Gobbato

• Quad bitboards (Using 4 bitboards to represent the entire chess board)
• Using the o^(o-2r)-trick to generate sliding piece attacks
• Make/Unmake (Rather than Copy/Make)
• Around 25Mnps raw perft speed in release mode (Single threaded, No hashing, Bulk counting in the horizon nodes)

License

Blaze is licensed under the MIT license. A copy of this license can be found in LICENSE