secondchess
secondchess is a chess engine by Emilio Díaz, based on firstchess by Pham Hong Nguyen (by emdio)
Koivisto
UCI Chess engine (by Luecx)
secondchess | Koivisto | |
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2 | 1 | |
16 | 131 | |
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10.0 | 0.0 | |
over 5 years ago | 4 months 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.
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.
Koivisto
Posts with mentions or reviews of Koivisto.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-12.
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What's a simple engine to modify? (Preferably in Python)
Another option in C++ is https://github.com/Luecx/Koivisto which is the youngest entrant into the top 10 and from what I recall has a lot of comments and is pretty clean.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing secondchess and Koivisto you can also consider the following projects:
nnue-pytorch - Stockfish NNUE (Chess evaluation) trainer in Pytorch
Ethereal - Ethereal, a UCI Chess Engine by Andrew Grant
lc0 - The rewritten engine, originally for tensorflow. Now all other backends have been ported here.
sunfish - Sunfish: a Python Chess Engine in 111 lines of code
Gigantua - Gigantua: Single Threaded - 2 Billion Moves/s Chess position enumerator
blunder - A UCI compatible chess engine written in Golang
pawn - An experimental UCI chess engine
Halogen - C++ chess engine