Chess Engine in C — Project Goal

Build a clean, fast chess engine in C that starts from a FEN string and produces fully legal moves, verified via PERFT for correctness and speed.

Approach

• Correctness-first engine: FEN → board → legal movegen → PERFT

Future Work

• Incorporate algorithms and evaluation methods for chess positions to enable an AI player

• Build an API to facilitate chess games with the AI player over the web.

  • Starting with a commandline client
  • Later building a web based client

Chess Engine Programming & Information

• Chess Programming Wiki (CPW): https://www.chessprogramming.org/
• PERFT (definition & methodology): https://www.chessprogramming.org/Perft
• PERFT Results & test positions: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Perft_Results
• FEN reference: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Forsyth-Edwards_Notation
• Bitboards https://www.chessprogramming.org/Bitboards