{"repo":"tryingsomestuff/Minic","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/Minic","clone":"git clone https://github.com/tryingsomestuff/Minic.git","description":"A simple chess engine to learn and play with","language":"C++","stars":130,"topics":["chess","engine","ai","game-development"],"license":"GPL-3.0","category":"game-templates","readme_excerpt":"Minic Minic is a chess engine I'm developing to learn about chess programming and modern C++ (please see this lovely wiki for more details on chess programming). Minic has no graphical interface (GUI) but is compatible with both the CECP (xboard) and UCI protocols, so you can use it in your favorite software (for instance Cutechess, Arena, Banksia, Winboard/Xboard, c-chess-cli, ...). Minic is currently one of the 15 best engines in major rating lists and the strongest French one. Here are some shortcuts to navigate in this document : Support Minic development History & the NNUE Minic story Minic NNUE \"originality\" status Testing and strength Rating Lists & competitions Release process How to compile Syzygy EGT How to run Options Videos Thanks Support Minic development Generating data, learning, tuning, optimization, and testing for a chess engine is quite hardware-intensive! I have some good hardware at home, but this is far from enough. This is why I opened a Patreon account for Minic; if you want to support Minic development, it is the place to be ;-) History & the NNUE Minic story Code style For a year and a half Minic was (mainly) a one-file codebase with very dense lines. This is of course very wrong in terms of software design... So why was it like that? The first reason is that Minic was first developed as a weekend project (in mid-October 2018), the quick-and-dirty way, and since then I had fun pushing in the direction of minimal lines of code; being a \"small\"","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/tryingsomestuff","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/tryingsomestuff/Minic/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}