A lightweight chess engine written in C++ with a focus on clean code and solid tactical play.
- Build with CMake
- Connect to Lichess
Tested on a MacBook Air (Apple M2, 8 cores: 4 performance + 4 efficiency, 16 GB RAM).
Compiled with: -O3 -DNDEBUG -flto -march=native.
On this setup, knight-rider achieves about 340M leaf nodes/s from the start position to depth 8 in perft
- Compile the project using cmake
- Follow the instructions https://github.com/lichess-bot-devs/lichess-bot to connect lichess to this engine
This project is licensed under the MIT License.