Halogen
C++ chess engine (by KierenP)
secondchess
secondchess is a chess engine by Emilio Díaz, based on firstchess by Pham Hong Nguyen (by emdio)
| Halogen | secondchess | |
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| 1 | 2 | |
| 57 | 16 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.8 | 10.0 | |
| 3 days ago | over 5 years ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Halogen
Posts with mentions or reviews of Halogen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
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Easy to read chess engine source code
Halogen is also surprisingly simple in some areas while also being a very strong engine. It's move gen is a bit complicated to figure out if you're not familiar with chess programming though.
secondchess
Posts with mentions or reviews of secondchess.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
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Easy to read chess engine source code
Secondchess
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What's a simple engine to modify? (Preferably in Python)
In any case, you can try https://github.com/emdio/secondchess It's written in C, but (hopefully) quite easy to understand/modify.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Halogen and secondchess you can also consider the following projects:
sunfish - Sunfish: a Python Chess Engine in 111 lines of code
nnue-pytorch - Stockfish NNUE (Chess evaluation) trainer in Pytorch
blunder - A UCI compatible chess engine written in Golang
Ethereal - Ethereal, a UCI Chess Engine by Andrew Grant
Koivisto - UCI Chess engine
lc0 - The rewritten engine, originally for tensorflow. Now all other backends have been ported here.