Kholin, an UCI compliant open source chess engine by Emil Fredrik Østensen, written in C as part of his 2016 Master's thesis [1]. Kholin is licensed under the GPL 3 [2], and focuses on parallel search, in particular Lazy SMP.
Glyph for House Kholin [3]

Features

Board Representation

• Bitboards
• 8x8 Board
• Magic Bitboards

Search

• Lazy SMP
• Iterative Deepening
• Aspiration Windows
• Alpha-Beta
• Shared Hash Table
  Lockless Hashing
  Zobrist Hashing
• Move Ordering
  History Heuristic
  Killer Heuristic
• Selectivity
  Null Move Pruning
  Check Extensions

Evaluation

• Tapered Eval
• Material
• Piece-Square Tables
• Rooks on (Semi) Open Files
• Pawn Structure

Misc

• Perft

See also

• Fiction

Publications

• Emil Fredrik Østensen (2016). A Complete Chess Engine Parallelized Using Lazy SMP. M.Sc. thesis, University of Oslo, pdf

External Links

Chess Engine

• GitHub - emilfo/master - Kholin Chess Engine

Misc

• Igor Kholin from Wikipedia
• The Stormlight Archive from Wikipedia
• House Kholin - The Coppermind - 17th Shard

References

1. ^ Emil Fredrik Østensen (2016). A Complete Chess Engine Parallelized Using Lazy SMP. M.Sc. thesis, University of Oslo, pdf
2. ^ GitHub - emilfo/master - Kholin Chess Engine
3. ^ The Alethi glyph for House Kholin by Isaac Stewart, The Stormlight Archive - The Coppermind - 17th Shard

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