surge
A fast bitboard-based chess move generator in C++ (by nkarve)
libchess
C++ chess library (by kz04px)
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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.
surge
Posts with mentions or reviews of surge.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-10.
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Interested in creating, playing and testing your own chess engine?
https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot is a straight forward way to use any UCI engine with lichess. There are also a few libraries for move generation mine: https://github.com/Disservin/chess-library , libchess: https://github.com/kz04px/libchess , surge: https://github.com/nkarve/surge . These are C++ ones, for rust theres https://github.com/analog-hors/cozy-chess . In python you could use python-chess but its incredibly slow for engine stuff writing your own will probably be faster if you know what you are doing.
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Why are templates being used here?
https://github.com/nkarve/surge/tree/master/src heres the repo if you want to have a look.
libchess
Posts with mentions or reviews of libchess.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-10.
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Interested in creating, playing and testing your own chess engine?
https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot is a straight forward way to use any UCI engine with lichess. There are also a few libraries for move generation mine: https://github.com/Disservin/chess-library , libchess: https://github.com/kz04px/libchess , surge: https://github.com/nkarve/surge . These are C++ ones, for rust theres https://github.com/analog-hors/cozy-chess . In python you could use python-chess but its incredibly slow for engine stuff writing your own will probably be faster if you know what you are doing.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing surge and libchess you can also consider the following projects:
chess-library - C++ chess library
lichess-bot - A bridge between Lichess API and chess engines