Chess Engine Move Generations

Types of Moves

Moves can divided into two categories

• pseudo-legal: obeys chess movement rules, but does not account for the king being in check
• legal: like pseudo-legal, but checks if the king is in check

Move generation can verified using pertf, which is program which generates all moves from a given position to a given depth. This is then compared with an existing engine to verify move generation correctness.

Bitboard Move Generation

Since bitboards are the preferred representation, this part will only show move generation for bitboards.

• Chess Engine Pawns