node-uci

Write UCI chess engines in NodeJs and run them inside a terminal or browser.

Prerequisites

Node >= 8.0

Install

Download or checkout the repo and run:

npm install

Run

node index.js example/index.js

Build for browser usage

If you want to run your engine inside a browser.

cd builder/
./browser.sh ../example/Engine.js > ../example_browser/engine.js 

Then use this js commands in the browser:

window.engine.process.stdout.on('data',function(data) {
console.log(data);
});

window.engine.process.stdin.push("uci\n");
window.engine.process.stdin.push("isready\n");
window.engine.process.stdin.push("go\n");