Crows No Claws

Crows No Claws is a simple chess engine that is being developed by a complete begginer at the topic. The name was choosen with the intention to represent how limited the engine is (after all, what would a crow with no claws be able to do?).

How to compile

(first download the repo, unzip it and cd CrowsNoClaws into it) 1.Run the following command:

gcc -Wextra -Wpedantic -Wall -Werror -o build/CrowsNoClaws.exe -Iincludes -Iatk_gen/kindergarten crowsnoclaws.c src/board.c src/move_generator.c src/constant.c src/atk_gen/kindergarten/kindergarten.c src/atk_gen/atk_gen_helpers.c -O3

Then run the executable: ./build/CrowsNoClaws.exe 2. Download from the releases option (not yet released).

Massive thanks to

no particular order btw 👀

1. Tsoj and his Nalwald engine
2. Chess Programming Wiki and the CPW discord server
3. Martin and his engine

TODO

• Simple board representation
  • Initialize board
  • Print board
• Add move generator
  • Slider
  • Legal Moves
  • Castling
  • En Passant
  • Promotion
• Improve board
  • Higher level representation for 32bit systems compatibility
  • Optimize code
• Implement eval
  • Centipawn eval - varying knight and bishop value
  • Normal eval
  • NNUE eval
• Move Ordering
• Implement search
  • Alpha-Beta
  • Monte Carlo
• Basic UCI
• Implement UI
  • CLI
  • GUI