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Chess Engine

This is a UCI chess engine written in C. The engine searches the game tree using iterative deepening and alpha-beta pruning in order to find the most optimal move.

Installation

  1. Clone this repository: git https://github.com/tonywu315/chess.git
  2. Enter repository and build executable.
    • On Unix: make
    • If CMake is installed: cmake -S . -B build && cmake --build build

UCI Protocol

The Universal Chess Interface (UCI) is a communication protocol that enables chess engines to communicate with user interfaces. This chess engine is compatible with all GUIs that support UCI. Here is a list of supported UCI options:

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