Observed arrival · 2026-10-19
IronPhoenix: an engine for four-player Teams chess
An open-source C++20 chess engine built for the 14 × 14 cross board and the shared stakes of four-player Teams chess.
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- Four-player Teams chess engine developers
- Worth noticing
- PhoenixNet uses separate own-king and partner-king feature streams, with 65,280 sparse input features and 17 king buckets.
Field notes
The page describes a fixed four-player turn cycle: Red and Yellow share a team, as do Blue and Green. Its evaluator is team-relative, and the documented PhoenixNet format separates own-king and partner-king feature streams. The homepage lists support for FEN setup, castling, promotion, and en passant, and gives build requirements of CMake 3.24+ with MSVC, Clang, or GCC.
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