uciadapter

uciadapter is a C++ library that allows you to communicate with any chess engines that follows the UCI Protocol. It works on both platforms, Linux and Windows.

How to use it ?

PGNP can be used as a shared library in your project. You only need to include uciadapter.hpp and linking the .so file to your executable.

Example

Somewhere at the beginning of the file:

#include "uciadapter.hpp"

Example (assuming not catching exceptions):

uciadapter::UCI u("/path/to/engine");
u.position("2k2r2/6R1/8/8/8/6Q1/4K3/8 w - - 0 1");
u.go(uciadapter::Go()); // Launch go with no arguments
u.SyncAfter(2); // Wait 2s and fetch data from engine
// Then:
// u.GetLines(); // To fetch best lines
// u.Command("<your command>") // Run custom commands
// u.GetName(); // Engine name
// u.GetAuthor(); // Fetch engine author

Please look at UCI.hpp for more informations on the available API.

CMake Integration

By using the add_subdirectory() directive on this repository, you will be able to use the following cmake calls in your project:

include_directories(${UCIADAPTER_INCLUDE_DIR})
target_link_libraries(<YOUR_TARGET> uciadapter)