Samurai chess engine

About

This is my hobby project I slowly write from time to time. Right now it might have bugs and performance problems

Build and run

Build

This project uses CMake as main build and run. To build it you can use the next commands:
1.mkdir build && cd build -- creating a build directory and navigating to it
2.cmake .. -- configuring generating building files
3.cmake --build . -- building project

To set the position paste FEN Board constructor in main.cpp. Right now the program doesn't check the FEN correctness, so be careful. You can generate it here. The number in tree.generateTree function sets the calculation depth.

Run

./chess_engine --flags -- running project
There is a set of flags for executable file:
1.-p or --playmode -- turns on the PvP mode

Computing performance

Linux

I've tested on Intel(R) Pentium(R) 3558U CPU, compiler was GNU 8.3.0. The average result was ~525000 generated positions/sec.

Windows 10

I've tested on i7-8750H CPU with both MSVC 19.28.29337.0 and Clang 10.0 compilers (Visual Studio Community 2019). Clang: ~880000 position/sec
MSVC: ~65000 position/sec
For better experience it's recommended to use Clang compiler in Visual studio.