Shadowfax is a UCI chess engine written entirely from scratch in Golang. It will be using classic evlauation and move generation methods. I also plan on upgrading it to an NNUE in version 2. If that sounds interesting, consider giving this repo a star. Thanks!

Play a game against shadowfax on Lichess

If you're interested in contributing to the project, please go through contributing.md

• go 1.22.2 or later

1. Clone this repo with git clone https://github.com/Greeshmanth1909/shadowfax
2. Move to the root of the project with cd shadowfax
3. Build the binary with go build
4. The shadowfax binary should appear in the root of the project
5. Link the binary to a chess gui

Here are the GUI's that have been tested so far

• en-croissant for mac
• Arena Chess for windows

For more instructions on how to link the engine to a gui head here

• bluefeversoftware for his VICE Engine
• The Chess Programming Wiki