hackfish is an open source chess engine written in C. It is designed to be easy to simple, efficient, and modular. I developed this engine to learn more about chess programming, drawing inspiration from Bluefever Software’s Chess Engine in C YouTube series.
- Efficient C-based implementation with a 120 integer array
- Support for standard chess rules including castling, en passant, and the fifty move rule
- Command-line interface for interaction and testing
To install Hackfish, clone the repository and compile the source code:
git clone https://github.com/Nathan5563/hackfish.git
cd hackfish
make
Once installed, you can run the Hackfish engine from the command line:
./hackfish
I welcome contributions from anyone interested in improving the program. If you have a bug report, feature request, or code contribution, please open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub repository.
For more information, you can reach out to the project maintainer at ndawit611@gmail.com.