UCI chess engine designed to run with low RAM

These steps assume Windows.

1. Install MinGW and Make or Ninja.*
2. Install CMake.
3. Clone this repo.
4. mkdir build && cd build in project root.
5. cmake .. -G "MinGW Makefiles" or cmake .. -G "Ninja".*
6. cmake --build .

* You could probably use other generators that end up using gcc/g++ or clang, but that is untested. Using MSVC will not work.

g++ src/*.cpp src/board/*.cpp src/board/pieces/*.cpp -o main.exe seems to work without issues on Windows

Run main.exe. The engine supports basic UCI commands.

Compile different versions of TinyChess, (you can use the same version, but it will be quite boring) and add them as engines to Cutechess. (using the GUI is the easiest) You can then set up a tournament via the GUI or use the command line.

Example command to start a SPRT with 50 games with a time control of 60 seconds and with engine configurations TinyChess0 and TinyChess1 and using the Silver opening suite and concurrency of 5.

cutechess-cli -engine conf=TinyChess1 -engine conf=TinyChess0 -each proto=uci tc=60 timemargin=100 -sprt elo0=0 elo1=5 alpha=0.05 beta=0.05 -games 50 -openings file=Silver_Suite.pgn format=pgn plies=5 -concurrency 5

TinyChessTest is a small testing program, visit it's repository to find out how to set up the tester and run a tournament. This will be deprecated in favor of TinyTest.

TinyTest is the distributed testing program for TinyChess, under development.