chessy

A simple chess engine.

This is a learning project. It is much slower than other production-ready engines and may have bugs, but feel free to contribute if you wish to.

Features

• Minimal UCI support.
• Lichess integration (see this repository).

Installation

chessy is available on pypi and can be downloaded as a Python package with: $ pip install -U chessy.

If you prefer to build it from source (e.g. when contributing), see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Planned features

• Improve move evaluation and search.

  • Be able to process at least around depth 8 within a reasonable time.
  • Quiescence search (as soon as we get some performance improvements - not right now because it will slow down things too much).

• Advanced UCI support.

  • Adapt playstyle according to wtime and btime.
  • Ponder.
  • Report more info (e.g. seldepth).

License

chessy is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, either version 3 or any later versions at your choice. See LICENSE.txt for more details.