MinimalChessEngine vs xiphos

MinimalChessEngine

After watching The Queen's Gambit on Netflix I got interested in chess. I played a bit against computer programs and it made me curious about writing my own chess engine. This repository and a series of small videos I upload to Youtube after each milestone are documenting my progress. (by lithander)

Chess Game AI chess-engine Chessboard chessengine Uci

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UCI chess engine (by milostatarevic)

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MinimalChessEngine		xiphos
	Project
4	Mentions	2
38	Stars	71
-	Growth	-
2.7	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
C#	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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MinimalChessEngine

Posts with mentions or reviews of MinimalChessEngine. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.

Any weaker UCI engines?
3 projects | /r/ComputerChess | 22 Apr 2023

The weakest published version if my engine starts with 1000 Elo: https://github.com/lithander/MinimalChessEngine/releases/tag/v0.2
I made a new C# engine, it’s slow but it was fun to make!
3 projects | /r/ComputerChess | 7 Mar 2021

The Problem I had is that a lot of low-rated engines are low rated because they lose on bugs and have other issues. So it's not easy to find good sparring partners. To best of my knowledge my engine works correctly under all time controls and I've played ten thousand games without an issue. So if you want a sparring partner maybe give MinimalChess a try! ;)
An awesome introduction to (minimax-based) Chess AI by Sebastian Lage
2 projects | /r/ComputerChess | 21 Feb 2021

I gutted my own C# chess engine, then copied the chess playing code from Sebastians Unity project over, changed what needed changing to make it compile again. So now you can play against Sebastians Chess-AI in your favorite chess GUIs.
Open Source Chess Engine in Go
2 projects | /r/ComputerChess | 16 Feb 2021

xiphos

Posts with mentions or reviews of xiphos. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-18.

xiphos VS Synergy-Chess - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 18 Jun 2022
Engines Opening Books
5 projects | /r/ComputerChess | 14 Jan 2021

Xiphos

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MinimalChessEngine and xiphos you can also consider the following projects:

VkChess.net - 3D Stockfish Chess client powered by Vulkan

laser-chess-engine - Laser, a UCI-compliant chess engine.

Binbo - Chess representation written in Erlang using Bitboards, ready for use on game servers

Winter - UCI Chess Engine

weasel - 【小狼毫】Rime for Windows

Synergy-Chess - system that allows you to simultaneously start 8 chess engines and obtain a single move through the majority criteria and of score.

StockNemo - A C# Chess Engine Finding Good Moves.

RubiChess - Another chess engine

Mzinga - Open-source software to play the board game Hive.

igel - UCI compatible chess engine

SebLagueChessEngine - Sebastian Lague's Chess AI with added UCI support

cutechess - Cute Chess is a graphical user interface, command-line interface and a library for playing chess.