HackChess

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.