stellar

UCI Chess engine written in C++20

git clone git://git.dimitrijedobrota.com/stellar.git

commit	0dc53eb006ea1ea7da949a6f096ee81f70ae22e7
parent	63d7568e62922c5488d19978f5236e10117e3b28
author	Dimitrije Dobrota <mail@dimitrijedobrota.com>
date	Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:22:35 +0000

Version 1.0

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project(

Stellar

VERSION 0.0.35

VERSION 1.0.0

DESCRIPTION "Chess engine written in C++"

HOMEPAGE_URL https://git.dimitrijedobrota.com/stellar.git

LANGUAGES CXX

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MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy

of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights

to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell

copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all

copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR

IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,

FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE

AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER

LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,

OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE

SOFTWARE.

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# Stellar

UCI bitboard chess engine written in C++20

## Description

The goal of the project is experimentation. I want to see how far I can push the engine to play better while learning various techniques of optimization.

To see the games played or play a game on your own checkout the profile on [lichess](https://lichess.org/@/StellarBOT), bullet, blitz and rapid challenges, ranked or casual, are accepted.

## Getting Started

### Dependencies

* CMake 3.25.2 or latter

* Compiler with C++20 support

### Installing

* Clone the repo

* Make a build folder and cd into it

* Run `cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release <path to cloned repo>`

### Executing program

* Run the engine by running: `./bin/engine`

* The engine accepts commands on the standard input and produces results to the standard output

* To communicate with the engine use UCI command. Reference for UCI protocol can be found [here](http://download.shredderchess.com/div/uci.zip)

## Help

* To see the options for additional tools run one of the following commands form the build directory:

```

./bin/perft -h

```

* Changes to the move generation can be tested with `ctest` on a predefined set of positions

## Version History

* 1.0

* Initial Release

## License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

## Acknowledgments

Inspiration, code snippets, etc.

* [Chess Programming Wiki](https://www.chessprogramming.org/)

* [Code Monkey King](https://github.com/maksimKorzh)

* [Lichess-Bot](https://github.com/lichess-bot-devs/lichess-bot)