joeybalardeta/frostbyte

A custom chess engine, written in C. Basically a rewrite of r_chess.

Frostbyte

A custom chess engine, written in C. This was inspired by my school project to build a chess program (that program is publicly available under my r_chess repository). I wanted to improve upon it by optimizing memory usage and making a more 'intelligent' AI to play against the user.

Goals

• Make an optimized chess engine
• Keep the code simple
• Make an 'AI' that is capable of beating players up to 2000 rating
• No API's for AI move making

Current Features

• Player vs Player
• Player vs Computer
• Computer vs Computer
• FEN string parsing to set up custom boards (only available for move simulation right now)

Future Planned Features

• Smarter AI (random moves are funny, but they don't win games)
• Computer vs Computer | Machine Learning Mode

Project Info

• Developed in WSL Ubuntu + MacOS Ventura
• Compiled with gcc
• Compatibile with any OS (gcc and make required)

Currently Working On

• Rewriting the Piece struct
  • Piece struct -> single unsigned char
  • Piece type and color encoded (read through bit masks)
  • Since the unsigned char cannot hold a moveCount attribute, I will be adding more to the Game struct to account for castling and En Passant (castling rights variables + En Passant target square)