CHESSV COPYRIGHT (C) 2007-2016 BY GREGORY STRONG

ChessV is an open-source Universal Chess Program with graphical user-interface, sophisticated AI, support for opening books, and other features of traditional Chess programs. Currently, over 50 chess variants are supported.

ChessV is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

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ChessV 0.95 (64-bit)
Version for 64-bit Windows operating systems. Requires a CPU that supports SSE4 instructions such as the Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 processors and AMD processors starting with the K10 family.
ChessV 0.95 (32-bit)
Version for 32-bit Windows operating systems and any Intel-compatible CPU
ChessV 0.95 source code
C++ source code and Visual Studio 2015 project files
  
NOTE: There is no installation program. Simply unzip and run ChessV.exe. Although this is a Windows program, it can also be run on Linux under Wine. Also included is an executible named ChessV_Winboard.exe which allows running the ChessV engine under Winboard.

Supported Variants:

  • Alapo
  • Almost Chess
  • Angels and Devils
  • Archchess
  • Berolina Chess
  • Bird’s Chess
  • Cagliostro’s Chess
  • Capablanca Chess
  • Capablanca Chess, Aberg variant
  • Capablanca Chess, Paulowich variant
  • Carrera’s Chess
  • Chess256
  • Chess 480
  • Chess with Augmented Knights
  • Chess with Different Armies
  • Chess with Ultima Pieces
  • Courier Chess
  • Cylindrical Chess
  • Diagonal Chess
  • Diamond Chess
  • Embassy Chess
  • Emperor’s Game
  • Enep
  • Eurasian Chess
  • Exinction Chess
  • Fischer Random Chess
  • Great Chess
  • Great Shatranj
  • Grand Chess
  • Grotesque Chess
  • Janus Chess
 
  • Janus Kamil Chess
  • Kinglet
  • Ladorean Chess
  • Latrunculi duo milia et septum
  • Legan’s Game
  • Lemurian Shatranj
  • Lions and Unicorns Chess
  • Los Alamos Chess
  • Modern Kamil
  • Modern Shatranj
  • Odin’s Rune Chess
  • Opti Chess (mirror I)
  • Opulent Chess
  • Orthodox Chess
  • Polymorph Chess
  • Roman Chess
  • Royal Court
  • Schoolbook Chess
  • Shatranj
  • Shatranj Kamil
  • Shatranj Kamil (64)
  • Sosarian Chess
  • Switching Chess
  • TenCubed Chess
  • Three Checks Chess
  • Ultima
  • Unicorn Chess
  • Unicorn Great Chess
  • Unicorn Grand Chess
  • Univers Chess

Search Engine Features:

Searching

  • Alpha-Beta Nega-Max Principal Variation search
  • Iterative Deepening
  • Null-move Forward Pruning
  • Internal Iterative Deepening (IID)
  • Static Exchange Evaluation (SEE)
  • Search Extensions:
    • check extension
    • null-move threat extension
  • Futility Pruning and Razoring
  • Killer-move Heuristic
  • Late Move Reductions (LMR)

Evaluation

  • Piece-square tables
  • Pawn structure evaluation
  • Mobility evaluation
  • King Safety
  • King Tropism
  • Lazy Evaluation

Hash Tables

  • Transposition Table
  • Pawn Structure Table
  • Evaluation Cache
  • Repetetion Detection

Current Limitations:

  • No games with more than two players are supported.
  • No game with a move order other than the usual white-black-white-black is supported (such as double-move chess.)
  • No games with randomness or hidden information are supported.
  • No ability to edit the board mid-game is provided.