Pioneer is a free UCI chess engine written from scratch in C++. It is heavily inspired by Sebastian Lague's chess engine videos and Stockfish.

• Alpha-Beta
• PVS Search
• Aspiration Windows
• Iterative Deepening
• Quiescence Search
• Internal Iterative Deepening

• Futility Pruning
• Null Move Pruning
• Razoring
• Reverse Futility Pruning
• Delta Pruning
• Transposition Table

• Late Move Reductions
• Internal Iterative Reductions
• Check Extensions

• Killer Moves
• Move History
• Capture History
• Continuation History
• Counter Moves
• MVV LVA
• Hash Move

• Material Score
• Piece Square Tables
• Passed Pawns
• Isolated Pawns
• Doubled Pawns
• Pawn Shield
• Bishop Pair
• Attacked King-Adjacent Squares

As of now, my evaluation is lacking the most. I'm working on replacing my evaluation with an NNUE :D