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Ghost – xboard compatible chess engine

Ghost is an xboard compatible chess engine.

Search algorithm:

  • MTD(f) search.
  • Multicore support:
    • Internally, it uses work-stealing provided by the Threading Building Blocks library.
    • Currently, there is still a known scalability bug in my implementation, so the speedup is not optimal..
  • Singular Extensions (SE):
    • This is the most important algorithmical addition in comparison with Ghost 2. It was a clear improvement to the search.
  • All in all, the search is fairly minimal. It is still work in progress and hopefully we will see some improvements in the near future.
  • Cross-platform software – runs under Linux and Windows.

This is free and open source software.

Website: www.ghostchess.de
Support:
Developer: Philipp Claßen
License: 2-clause BSD License

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Torin Doyle
Torin Doyle
1 year ago

Hi Steve. Ghost is cross-platform.