moonfish — a simple chess bot

about moonfish

this means anyone can benefit from moonfish by having access to its source code

moonfish is simple and lightweight, which means it's easy and fun to understand how it works

written in straight-forward C89, moonfish can run in effectively any operating system and platform

moonfish has a small but kind community, where you can feel comfortable being yourself

moonfish uses MCTS, which allows for it to be reasonably effective despite being so simple

moonfish makes efficient uses of resources, allowing for it to run in constrained environments such as embedded devices

this is moonfish's source code, choose this if you want to help hack on moonfish!

choose this if you want to run moonfish on 64-bit Linux

this is a shell script with compressed source code, so it requires a shell, as well as xz and cc (it is very small!)

you can compile moonfish for Windows using MinGW or Visual Studio

you can compile moonfish for UNIX and UNIX clones, including Mac OS

because of moonfish's adherence to the C89 standard, you can port moonfish to other platforms relatively easily