I've been working intermittently on my very first chess engine for the last few months
Here it is: Lynx.
It's written in C# (currently .NET 6 preview), under MIT License.
I have to say it's 'inspired' by 'Bitboard Chess Engine in C' YouTube series, so I have to thank Code Monkey King for those videos.
I was waiting to develop a stronger version of it before presenting to this forum, but since it's probably going to become a never-ending process, I've decided it to share it with you all right now while I continue developing and improving it.
Disclaimer: it's still weak, doesn't support opening books or all UCI options yet and a long etc. for now.Binaries can be downloaded from GitHub (feel free to test it as much as you want!).
Since I don't have that much time to play games locally and fully evaluate future performance improvements of code changes, I also created a Lichess BOT which runs Lynx's latest version, is available 24/7, challenges other bots, and that anyone (with a lichess.org account) can play.
At some point in the near future it'd make me incredibly happy to see Lynx in CCRL or similar lists (even if it's at the rock bottom
), so I'd be grateful if someone could provide me with some guidance about how CCRL and other chess engine lists work, whether I need to do anything special to 'register' my engine there for the first time so that people are aware of it and can start using it in their tests/matches, etc.Cheers
PD: Apologies for the redundancy, I originally posted this announcement in the wrong forum and was suggested to re-post it here as well. If an admin reads this, feel free to remove the other topic
Congratz on creating a working engine and welcome to the forum!