Skormfish

Python chess engine based on Sunfish.

Play Skormfish at https://lichess.org/@/Skormfish

Engine

Project still in progress and improving

Search logic

• Iterative deepening
  • Negamax
    • alpha-beta prunning
    • transposition table.

Evaluation

• Piece value
• Piece-square tables
• Simple end-game detection

Name

Name comes from Fable : The Lost Chapters

and ends by fish like all the best open source chess engines!

Credit

Sunfish (structure and chess logic)

Wikipedia Negamax article (negamax, A/B prunning and ttables)

Lc0 (opening book)

Chessprogramming wiki (everything else)

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions