Chess Engine written in Julia

A Julia package that implements chess from scratch alongside a chess engine, Orbis. It provides functionalities to represent the chessboard, validate moves, and evaluate positions. Particularly, OrbisChessEngine implements:

• All chess rules
• Bitboard representation
• Legal move generation (tested with perft)
• FEN parsing
• Opening book support
• Minimax search with alpha–beta pruning, iterative deepening, quiescence search, transposition tables, null move pruning, and move ordering heuristics
• Evaluation function based on piece-square tables

A lot of effort was spent on optimizing the engine for speed and efficiency.

It is a part of the Julia package system and can be installed with

import Pkg
Pkg.add("OrbisChessEngine")

The source code can be found on GitHub and the documentation is available at OrbisChessEngine.jl docs.