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####PLAN

• Will: enough to run engine in gui: main, uci
• Nick:

####TODO Nick

• breakdown
  • board rep.
  • generating moves
    • pawns
      • en passant
      • promotions
    • sliding pieces
      • bishops
      • rooks
      • queens
    • knights
    • king
      • castling
    • white/black differences
  • search eval
    • minimax + alpha-beta (needs to be typed)
    • iterative deepening
    • heuristic function
    • transposition tables
      • zobrist keys

####TODO Will

• class Player: main, uci implementation
  • go
  • stop
  • position
  • newgame
  • isReady
  • setOptions?
• class Thinker
  • constructor, init engine
  • run method. Main engine code starts here
  • bestMove. returns the best move available

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####NOTES

• Player creates separate thread (object thinker) for engine searching, keeps watching input.
• All output: use System.out.println
• final implementation:
  • Windows 64bit - for optimum bitboard implementation
  • Launch4j - wrap .jar file into .exe to use with any chess GUI
  • java 8.x - for unsigned long integer support
  • bundled with Chess Arena