Aleph

Aleph is a work-in-progress chess engine written in C, designed to run on Linux. It is being developed with the eventual goal of becoming a fully UCI-compatible engine.

The project is currently in the early stages of development, focusing on implementing core chess logic and search algorithms.

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Features

• Bitboard representation for a fast and efficient board state
• Alpha-Beta search algorithm
• Material counting
• Piece-square tables for positional evaluation

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Building from Source

To build the engine, clone the repository and use the provided Makefile:

# Build the engine
make aleph

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Usage

The engine currently works by taking a single FEN string as a command-line argument and processing that position.

./aleph "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"

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Dependencies

To build and run Aleph, you will need:

• gcc (or any standard C compiler)
• make

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome.

• Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.
• You can also contact me via the links on my GitHub profile.