foderking / Friedfish_Old

A chess engine written in nim

Fried Fish

In progress A chess engine written in nim. Wrote this to teach myself about chess engines and chess in general.

Requirements

• Nim
• Preferably unix based OS
• Git

Installation

$ git clone <repository-url>
$ cd Friedfish
$ nim c -r friedfish (not yet implemented)

Testing

nim c -r tests/<test-file>.nim

Resources

The following resources helped me learn about chess engines or chess programming in general. All the links are also saved in archive.org.

• General Resource
• Overview
• Board representation
• Bitboards
• Attack generation for non sliding pieces
• Attack generation for sliding pieces, M42