About the challenge
Welcome to HackChess! In this student-led hackathon, you will be creating a chess engine, optionally with the assistance of our workshops, and then competing against others' chess engines in a bracket tournament!
Our event starts on August 15th, 9 AM PST and ends at 5 PM on the 29th. You can either use a chess engine you previously have developed, or create an entirely new one.
The benefits to you are plenty: programming a chess engine can improve your algorithmic thinking, help you manage an algorithm's complexity, help you coordinate and manage a large codebase, and give you a quantifiable way to measure the growth in your programming abilities.
We also have prize money for the people placing in the top four: 1st place receives $100, 2nd place receives $75, 3rd place receives $50, and fourth place receives $25.
Get started
First, join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/pSBv2nYqja
To participate in the event, joining the Discord server is required.
Requirements
What to Build
For this event, you will need to build a chess engine and upload the project to GitHub. You do not need to build a GUI for the engine and it must be interfaceable with the UCI protocol (there will be a workshop on how to do this). The language that the engine is in does not matter. The GUI we will be using for the tournament will the Arena GUI.
What to Submit
Please upload the entirety of your project to GitHub and a video discussing your thought process and the design choices made in making your engine.
Prizes
First Place
Second Place
Third place
Fourth place
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Iyas Abdel Rahman
Judging Criteria
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Tournament Placement
Participants will be awarded based on their participation in a bracket-style tournament hosted on Arena GUI. Their engine must implement the UCI protocol to be eligible for winning.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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