libchess

A C++17 library that should provide legal move generation and be fairly performant.

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Build Instructions

git clone https://github.com/kz04px/libchess/
mkdir libchess/build
cd libchess/build
cmake ..
cmake --build .

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Example Programs

perft    -- Counts the number of nodes at a given depth
suite    -- Runs perft on a set of 126 positions
suite960 -- Runs perft on a set of chess960 positions
ttperft  -- Same as perft but with a transposition table
ttsuite  -- Same as suite but with a transposition table
split    -- Runs perft on each move in a position

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Usage

Both static and shared libraries are available, but the source files can also be included in a project directly.

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Tests

Tests can be run with ./libchess-tests

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License

libchess is released under the MIT license.

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Credits

• Thanks to Catch2 - "A modern, C++-native, header-only, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD - using C++11, C++14, C++17 and later (or C++03 on the Catch1.x branch)"