Easy to read chess engine source code

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/chessprogramming

Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
  • blunder

    A UCI compatible chess engine written in Golang

  • I found Blunder to be pretty accessible.

  • Halogen

    C++ chess engine (by KierenP)

  • 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.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

    InfluxDB logo
  • sunfish

    Sunfish: a Python Chess Engine in 111 lines of code

  • Just one file: Sunfish.py

  • secondchess

    secondchess is a chess engine by Emilio Díaz, based on firstchess by Pham Hong Nguyen

  • Secondchess

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts