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Utilities to test SoF Check chess engine

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These utilities include:

• Battlefield (deprecated, development continues [here][3])
• Data generator for selftests
• Test position set for BattleField
• SoFGameSet utilities

This project is mostly written in Pascal, as it relies on core libraries of Chess 256. These libraries were taken from the source code of Chess 256 and slightly modified.

Dependencies

On Debian/Ubuntu, you need to install the following packages:

• fpc (>= 3.0.4)
• lcl-units (>= 2.0.0)
• lcl-utils (>= 2.0.0)
• python3 (>= 3.7)

Utilities

Battlefield

NOTE: Pascal/Lazarus version of Battlefield is deprecated and will no longer receive updates. The utility has been rewritten in Go and is now located [here][3]. To get the latest version, you can use the following command:

$ go install github.com/alex65536/day20/cmd/bfield@latest

Data generator for selftests

This small tool generates the positions for [self-tests][1]. To compile and run it, use

$ cd selftest_data_create
$ lazbuild SelftestDataCreate.lpi
$ cd bin
$ ./selftest_data_create >boards.fen

The resulting boards.fen will be the same as boards.fen which is used for self-tests in SoFCheck repository.

Test position set for BattleField

This is not a utility, but a set of positions on which the engine evaluation function is tested. These positions can be used with BattleField.

SoFGameSet utilities

This is a set of utilities to work with [SoFGameSet][2] format. These utilities are written in Python.

License

GNU GPL v3 (or any later version)

[1]: https://github.com/alex65536/sofcheck/tree/master/selftest [2]: https://github.com/alex65536/sofcheck/blob/master/docs/gameset.md [3]: https://github.com/alex65536/day20