Chess-ai

Chess engine implemented from scratch in C++. The associated paper "Chess engine with an integrated AI" contains the theory and how I implemented the engine.

Table of contents

• Features
• Requirements
• Getting started
  • Linux
  • Windows
• Usage

Features

• Bitboards
  • Magic bitboards
• Move generator
  • Make/unmake move
  • Castle
  • Promotion
• Search
  • Negamax with alpha-beta pruning
  • Quiescence search
• Evaluation
  • Material
  • Positional

Requirements

• UTF-8 compatible shell
• C++11 or better

Getting started

Linux

  git clone https://github.com/FredrikErikJohansson/chess-ai.git
  cd chess-ai
  make
  ./chess

Windows

  git clone https://github.com/FredrikErikJohansson/chess-ai.git

Include the src/ directory into a Visual Sudio project and run from the IDE. You may have to tweak some compiler flags to get optimal performance.

Usage

The engine is predefind with values for good performance. To make a move from e2 to e4, type e2e4.