Hyperion Chess Engine

Hyperion is a MCTS-NN based chess engine built primarily in C++. The Engine is still in development, but should be done by the end of Summer 2025.

Perft test results:

• Nodes per second: 4.39454e+07 (43.9 Million NPS)

How to build?

1. Open a terminal in the hyperion directory

2. Next, cd into the build directory (hyperion/build/)

3. Now run cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..

4. Still in the build directory, run mingw32-make (if this doesn't work, try just make instead)

5. Run the executables by running the command .\bin\HyperionEngine.exe

How to build with performance enhancements:

1. Open a terminal in the hyperion directory

2. Next, cd into the build directory (hyperion/build/)

3. Now run `cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DHYPERION_ENABLE_BMI2=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..'

4. Still in the build directory, run mingw32-make -jN where N is the number of cores in your cpu (optional, but slower mingw32-make)

5. Run the executables by running the command .\bin\HyperionEngine.exe

Tasks Completed

• Chess Logic Library
• Basic Monte-Carlo Tree Search Implementation
• Initial Neural Network Creation (Supervised Learning)
• Initial Neural Network Implementation
• Neural Network Self-Play (Reinforcement Learning)
• Refinements/Advanced Features