Important

This is still WIP! Not guaranteed to work yet.

About

This consists in a simple template for a UCI chess engine that includes Disservin's chess library and my UCI protocol library (libuci), alongside example source files that initialize a simple UCI-compliant randomly-moving engine.

The goal of this template is to allow quick bootstrapping of a chess engine, without having worry about implementing the UCI protocol and a chess library.

Requirements

• C++17 compliant compiler
• CMake version 3.10 or higher (lower versions might work but haven't been tested)

Usage

Start by cloning the repository. You can either fork it or simply clone it, delete the .git folder and then create a Git repository on your own.

The project working directory is structured as follows:

/ext                    -- External dependencies
    /chess
        ...
    /libuci
        ...
    CMakeLists.txt
/src                    -- Your engine code goes here
    engine.cpp          -- UCI handlers
    search.cpp          -- Basic search function
    main.cpp            -- Program entry point
    engine.h
    search.h
    CMakeLists.txt
CMakeLists.txt
...

The template code already provides handlers for most UCI commands, including uci, isready, position, go and stop. search.cpp contains a basic search function that randomly selects a legal move from the current position and takes time into consideration.

Several TODOs are scattered throughout the code, suggesting where you can add your own logic.

License

All code in this repository -- except for code under the ext/ directory and its subdirectories -- is public domain as specified in unlicense.md.

Each library under ext/ have their respective license files inside them.