Ironfang ♖

IronFang is a simple UCI-compatible chess engine written from scratch in C++.

Project Structure

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├── build/          # CMake build output
├── include/        # Header files (.h files)
├── src/            # Source code (.cpp files)
├── .gitignore
└── CMakeLists.txt  # CMake build configuration

Build Instructions

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/cmd-anurag/Ironfang.git
  cd Ironfang

Create and enter a build directory

  mkdir build
  cd build

Generate build files with CMake

  cmake ..

Compile the engine

  make

Running the Engine

IronFang implements the UCI (Universal Chess Interface) protocol and can be used in any UCI-compatible environment, such as

• cutechess-cli and GUI

• BanksiaGUI

• Arena

• Other Chess GUIs or test harnesses

For example, to test the engine via cutechess-cli (a 2 minutes + 0 increment match)

cd build
cutechess-cli \
  -engine cmd=./chess name=IronFang proto=uci \
  -each tc=120+0 \
  -games 10 \
  -repeat \
  -concurrency 1 \
  -resign score=800 movecount=3 \
  -draw movenumber=50 movecount=5 score=10

Current Capabilitites

• Full legal move generation, including castling, en passant, and promotion

• Magic Bitboards for sliding pieces

• Simple evaluation based on material balance and piece-square tables

• Negamax search with alpha-beta pruning

• UCI protocol support for GUI integration

• Iterative deepening and time management

• Quiescence search

• Move ordering heuristics (MVV-LVA, killer moves, etc)

• Improved evaluation: king safety, pawn structure and positional understanding.

• Transposition tables using Zobrist Hashing

Future Plans

• Syzygy/endgame tablebase integration

• Opening Books

Authors

• Me

Feel free to fork, tinker, or contribute. Pull requests and issues are welcome.

License

MIT