Abulafia, an UCI compliant experimental open source chess engine by Nicu Ionita written in Haskell, and predecessor of Barbarossa [1]. Abulafia uses magic bitboards [2] to determine sliding piece attacks, and monad transformers [3] [4] in continuation passing style to control the search.
Abulafia's Light of the Intellect (1285) [5]

See also

• Barbarossa
• Metaphysics

Forum Posts

• Abulafia, chess, Haskell and some (new?) ideas by Nicu Ionita, CCC, April 20, 2012
• The best chess engine written in Haskell by Ruxy Sylwyka, CCC, January 18, 2013

External Links

Chess Engine

• nionita/Abulafia · GitHub
• Abulafia 0.61 in CCRL 40/4

Misc

• Abulafia (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
• Abraham Abulafia from Wikipedia
• Meir Abulafia from Wikipedia

References

1. ^ Barbarossa 0.1.0 by Nicu Ionita, CCC, November 24, 2013
2. ^ Abulafia/Magics.hs at master · nionita/Abulafia · GitHub
3. ^ Haskell/Monad transformers - Wikibooks
4. ^ Haskell/Understanding monads - Wikibooks
5. ^ An illuminated page from Abraham Abulafia's Light of the Intellect (1285), The Vatican Library, Unknown artist; the author of the book is Abulafia, Kabbalah from Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons

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