RoadMap

This page serves as a general roadmap for development.
Each version includes profiling and optimization.

• 0.1 (Finished)
• 0.3 (Finished)
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6

0.1 (Finished)

• Play completely legal chess (Done)
• Implement the XBoard protocol (Done)
• Iterative deepening (Done)
• Piece-Square Tables (Done)
• Quiescence Search (Done)

0.3 (Finished)

• Transposition Table (Done)
• Incremental AttacksFrom and AttacksTo tables (Done)

0.4

• Optimization through using Attacks-Tables for move generation (Done)
• Check Extension (Done)
• Divide search into PV-Search and NW-Search (Done)
• Change to a fail-soft framework (Done)
• Aspiration windows
• Detect game-phase and use tapered evaluation (Done)
• Deal correctly with transposition table with draw and mate values (Done)

0.5

• Implement the UCI protocol
• General code optimization and style enhancements
• Document the code properly
• Document the release files and sourceforge page properly

0.6

Various extensions, reductions and pruning