A chess engine written in Zig.
This application requires Zig 0.13.0.
Run the app with
zig build run
Run the tests with
zig build test --summary all
- More ergonomic API for getting legal moves for a piece at position (that accounts for being pinned)
- Better error reporting
- En passant
- Promotion
- Castling
- Zobrist hashing of board states
- Implement handlers for all commands, updating engine behavior and responding via output accordingly
- Consider running the interface process on its own thread, so that engine process
can run and be controlled independently. Protocol needs to respond to commands immediately,
for example if "stop" command is received search needs to end ASAP and return best move it has found.
- Figure out how to communicate between interface and engine, ideally without locking
- Given a gamestate, determine the best move
- Probably start with simplest possible evaluation algorithm - Minimax?