It started as a week-end project in october 2018 ( ).

Initially, the code size of Minic was supposed not to go above 2000sloc. More details about Minic history in the next paragraphs.

Nowadays, in fact since the release of version '2', the engine is written in a more classic C++ style, although some very dense lines may still be present and recall Minic past compacity. were available in the Add-Ons directory they are now fused with the source code for a while. Until version 2 of Minic, some optional features such as evaluation and searchs tuning, perft, tests, uci support, book generation. So why is it so? First reason is that Minic was first developped as a week-end project (in mid-october 2018), the quick-and-dirty way, and since then I was having fun going on the way of minimal lines of code direction being a 'small' code size engine was part of the stakes in developing it the first few months. This is of course very wrong in terms of software design. This is why I opened a Patreon account for Minic if you want to support Minic development, it is the place to be -) History & the NNUE Minic story Code styleįor a year and a half Minic was (mainly) a one-file-code with very dense lines. Generating data, learning process, tuning, optimization and testing of a chess engine is quite hardware intensive ! I have some good hardware at home but this is far from enough. Here are some shortcuts to navigate in this document : Minic is currently one of the 15 best engines in major rating lists and the strongest french one.

Minic has no graphic interface (GUI) but is compatible with both CECP (xboard) and UCI protocol so you can use it in your favorite software (for instance Cutechess, Arena, Banksia, Winboard/Xboard, c-chess-cli.

Minic is a chess engine I'm developing to learn about chess programming and modern C++ (please see this lovely wiki for more details on chess programming).

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