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Shatranj,
a bitboard-based, chess programming open source toolkit written by Sam Tannous in Python, which includes a simple chess engine which applies alpha-beta search and iterative deepening, able to communicate with a GUI via the Chess Engine Communication Protocol. The goal of the project is to aid in implementing a Shannon Type B chess programs, where execution speed becomes less important then code clarity and expressive power of the implementation language ^[1].

See also

• python-chess
• Shatranj (Chess Variant)

Selected Publications

• Sam Tannous (2007). Avoiding Rotated Bitboards with Direct Lookup. ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2, pdf » Hashing Dictionaries

External Links

• Shatranj: Computer Chess Toolkit
• shatranj.py by Sam Tannous
• stannous/shatranj · GitHub

References

1. ^ shatranj/README.md at master · stannous/shatranj · GitHub

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