Credit: MattSteeleArtworks on Reddit
FreddyBot is my homemade chess engine written from scratch in C++.
Think you can beat it? Send a challenge on Lichess!
Click Challenge to a Game and choose a format and time control. FreddyBot only accepts challenges to standard chess games, but you can select any time control. Note you must create a Lichess account.
- Project is designed to run on Ubuntu/WSL environments.
- Clone the repo.
- Install g++ and make.
- Run
Make runto launch the application.
The engine communciates on the terminal using the Universal Chess Interface.
Example:
position startpos moves e2e4 e7e5
go
Bestmove a1a2
position fen rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
go
Bestmove a1a2
Provide a position to the engine using startpos followed by a sequence of moves or a fen string. Then provide the command go and the engine will return the best move.
The engine is connected to the Lichess API so you can play against it directly without interfacing with UCI yourself.
- Better endgame evaluation.
- Better king safety evaluation.
- Better clock management.
- More efficient board representation (bitboards).
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details