This a basic bitboard UCI chess engine for learning purposes. I started this project because I got interested in chess programming. It is intended for beginners who, like me, are looking to get started with chess programming. I don't plan on integrating any major new features (like several pruning techniques), because I want to keep this project simple. In the future, I may fork this project and work on developing a stronger engine.
During development, I got heavily inspired by Disservins' chess-library, particularly in the design of the bitboard move generation. So I definitely want to give credit to him.
- Bitboard move generation
- Magic bitboards (fancy approach)
- Transposition Tables
- Piece-Square Tables
- Zobrist hashing
- Alpha-Beta search
- Quiescence search
- Iterative Deepening
- UCI support
- Time control
You will need a UCI-compatible Chess-GUI to play against this engine. My personal preference is en-croissant.
Clone project.
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/marcel-gerber/ChessEngine.git
cd ChessEngine/Configure CMake.
cmake -S . -B buildBuild executable.
cmake --build build --target ChessEngineExecutable will be in the build/src directory.
After cloning the project and configuring CMake, build the test-executable.
cmake --build build --target ChessEngineTestsRun tests.
cd build/test
./ChessEngineTests