OpenChess

I want to change the usual recursive negamax search into an iterative one. I am implementing chess into a rather primitive environment (if not downright hostile) and the iterative approach would provide benefits.

I've been looking but I couldn't find one semi-legible working code. I'd love to see something that preferably uses a stack and doesn't use GOTOs (I can't use them).

The only place I could find something was on chessprogramming.wikispaces.com but nothing I could actually use.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Just to be clearer, I'm looking for iterative alpha-beta pruning. I can use conditionals and loops, but no gotos.

The old Cray Blitz source is online somewhere (if not, I can email you the search.f function). It is an iterative approach, but it doesn't use a true stack. And it likely has a goto or two in it. But you'd need to know FORTRAN.

The idea is not so difficult, but the code is definitely more cluttered and difficult to read.

hyatt wrote:The old Cray Blitz source is online somewhere

ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/crayblitz/

Had forgotten I had it on my ftp box.

Thanks a lot for the code, I'm "decoding" now