...IMPORTANT: yacen is not in any way related to the YACE chess engine. The similar name was a mistake. To avoid confusion, I will rename my project soon and provide a link to the new site then.
yacen is a simple chess engine with main focus on understandability of code and mechanisms rather than on pure performance.
It is completely written in ANSI-C using nothing more than the standard library and thus is very portable and easy to compile on almost every platform.
yacen uses the common UCI interface to communicate with any compatible GUI.
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An open source chess engine in C, released under the GPL. Compatible with the XBoard and UCI interface protocols to link to a GUI or other chess arbiter.