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Is there a chess engine for the chess variant Duck Chess? If not, is there a known plan of development of such an engine?

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Edit on 18.01.2023:

Fairy-Stockfish released the duck-chess variant. You can reach it from their github.

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I also investigated this topic and I created an experimental engine of my own: https://github.com/OndrejKincl/DuckChess.jl

From this experience, I would say it will not be very difficult to prune possible duck moves but main obstacle is that there is currently not much theory or data to test against.

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AI on pychess.org

pychess.org added Duck Chess as a variant on 2022-12-26, and also included an AI. You can play against it by choosing PLAY WITH AI on the main page, then selecting the DUCK variant.

Duck Chess

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  • Do you know which engine it uses? or is it just a simple AI?
    – Minot
    Dec 30, 2022 at 17:36
  • @Minot No clue, just saw it on IM Rosens stream yesterday and then remembered this question.
    – MaxD
    Dec 30, 2022 at 17:39
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    It is Fairy-Stockfish, or more precisely exactly using the branch the accepted answer is pointing to as well.
    – Fabian Fichter
    Dec 30, 2022 at 17:48
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On this link you can find developpers programming a Duck Chess engine, available here. This engine is named Quack.

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