src

Source Code Directory

main.cpp is the main entry point of the engine and creates the CrazyAra object which handles the UCI-communication.

Folder Structure

• agents: Contains the specification for different search agent regimes
• chess_related: Contains conversion methods of the board into plane representation and constant definition for chess variants. You don't need to include this directory when using CrazyAra as a library for a different game.
• manager: Contains manager classes for different aspects e.g. the search tree, the time and the states list
• nn: Contains the functionality methods for loading the neural network and predicting the policy and value evaluation
• util: Contains additional utility methods for the blaze library and stockfish backend
• rl: Contains functionality methods for applying reinforcmenet learning which is only used for USE_RL=ON

Performance Profiling

Install the plotting utility for gprof:

• https://github.com/jrfonseca/gprof2dot

Activate the -pg flags in CMakeLists.txt and rebuild. Run the executable and generate the plot:

./CrazyAra
gprof CrazyAra | gprof2dot | dot -Tpng -o output.png