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