Answers.Body: <h2>Edit on 18.01.2023:</h2>
  <p>Fairy-Stockfish released the duck-chess variant. You can reach it from <a href="https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish" rel="nofollow noreferrer">their github</a>.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>On this <a href="https://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&amp;t=80829&amp;p=939744&amp;hilit=duck#p939744" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link</a> you can find developpers programming a Duck Chess engine, available <a href="http://hgm.nubati.net/Duck2.zip" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. This engine is named Quack.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <h1>AI on pychess.org</h1>
  <p><a href="https://www.pychess.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">pychess.org</a> added Duck Chess as a variant on <a href="https://www.pychess.org/news/Duck_Chess" rel="nofollow noreferrer">2022-12-26</a>, and also included an AI. You can play against it by choosing <code>PLAY WITH AI</code> on the main page, then selecting the <code>DUCK</code> variant.</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/Zx1u2.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/Zx1u2.png" alt="Duck Chess" /></a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: @Minot No clue, just saw it on IM Rosens stream yesterday and then remembered this question.
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Answers.Text: It is Fairy-Stockfish, or more precisely exactly using the branch the accepted answer is pointing to as well.
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Answers.Body: <p>I also investigated this topic and I created an experimental engine of my own: <a href="https://github.com/OndrejKincl/DuckChess.jl" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/OndrejKincl/DuckChess.jl</a></p>
  <p>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.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Is there a chess engine for the chess variant Duck Chess? If not, is there a known plan of development of such an engine?</p>
  
Tags: <engines><chess-variants>
Title: Is there an engine for Duck Chess?
ThreadText: # Is there an engine for Duck Chess?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-11-26)
  
  Is there a chess engine for the chess variant Duck Chess? If not, is there a known plan of development of such an engine?
  
  **Tags:** engines, chess-variants
  
  
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  ## 4 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2022-11-28. Score: 6 | Accepted answer
  
  ## Edit on 18.01.2023:
  
  Fairy-Stockfish released the duck-chess variant. You can reach it from [their github](https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish).
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-12-31. Score: 2
  
  On this [link](https://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=80829&p=939744&hilit=duck#p939744) you can find developpers programming a Duck Chess engine, available [here](http://hgm.nubati.net/Duck2.zip). This engine is named Quack.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2022-12-30. Score: 2
  
  # AI on pychess.org
  
  [pychess.org](https://www.pychess.org/) added Duck Chess as a variant on [2022-12-26](https://www.pychess.org/news/Duck_Chess), 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](https://i.sstatic.net/Zx1u2.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/Zx1u2.png)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Do you know which engine it uses? or is it just a simple AI?  
  > **username_2**: @username_0 No clue, just saw it on IM Rosens stream yesterday and then remembered this question.  
  > **username_3**: It is Fairy-Stockfish, or more precisely exactly using the branch the accepted answer is pointing to as well.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2022-12-14. Score: 2
  
  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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