PACE is a simple chess engine using minimax with alpha-beta pruning and basic move ordering.
This is going to be my second attempt at making a chess engine. My first attempt (MaxAve/NerdChess) has been mostly a failure as it performs very poorly, reaching a depth of about 2 moves with decent computation time. Now I'm trying to make a better and faster chess engine. I'm quite sure PACE will be awful, but hopefully better than my first attempt as I have learned much about optimization when developing NerdChess.
Step 1: Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/MaxAve/PACE.git
Step 2: cd into the project and use the Makefile to compile the source code:
cd PACE
make
If you're on Windows and make doesn't work for you, you can also try:
mingw32-make
Step 3: Run the project:
./PACE
Things that are yet to be done
- Implement special moves like castling & en passant
- Implement a proper evaluation function
- Implement an opening book
- Optimize minimax function