Search Results for "simple chess"

...The project is often used as an educational tool for understanding game AI, search algorithms, and evaluation functions without the complexity of larger engines. It includes a simple UCI-compatible interface, allowing it to be integrated with graphical chess interfaces or used in terminal-based gameplay. The codebase is intentionally minimal, making it ideal for experimentation, modification, and learning purposes.

...This makes them hardly accessible for students, researchers and hackers. Many simple Python implementations can be found on Github, but none of them is able to beat a reasonable baseline on games such as Othello or Connect Four. As an illustration, the benchmark in the README of the most popular of them only features a random baseline, along with a greedy baseline that does not appear to be significantly stronger.

OliveChess is a simple chess engine compatible with modern chess interfaces such as ChessBase products, Arena and XBoard/Winboard. The engine supports UCI and XBoard protocols. Note: in order to use it as an xboard engine you may need Polyglot tool to be installed first

A Chinese Chess (xiangqi) game for Linux and Windows. Aims to be fast, flexible and above all simple to use. You can play with your friends or against the AI.