Board Game AI Engines ML Frameworks

AI implementations for turn-based board games (chess, checkers, Chinese checkers, and similar strategy games) using game-tree search algorithms like minimax and alpha-beta pruning. Does NOT include general game AI frameworks, reinforcement learning agents for video games, or algorithm tutorials without a specific game implementation.

There are 144 board game ai engines frameworks tracked. 2 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is LeelaChessZero/lc0 at 68/100 with 3,014 stars. 1 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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#	Framework	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	LeelaChessZero/lc0 Open source neural network chess engine with GPU acceleration and broad...	68	Established	3,014	C++
2	official-stockfish/nnue-pytorch Stockfish NNUE (Chess evaluation) trainer in Pytorch	57	Established	452	Python
3	QueensGambit/CrazyAra A Deep Learning UCI-Chess Variant Engine written in C++ & Python :parrot:	48	Emerging	283	Jupyter Notebook
4	bagaturchess/Bagatur Java Chess Engine (UCI compatible)	47	Emerging	80	Java
5	bcorfman/raven-checkers An open-source checkers game with a computer-based AI, written with Python...	47	Emerging	32	Python
6	connormcmonigle/seer-nnue UCI chess engine using neural networks for position evaluation	45	Emerging	130	C++
7	xqbase/eleeye ElephantEye - a XiangQi (Chinese Chess) Engine for XQWizard with Strong AI	45	Emerging	375	C++
8	tsoj/Chess_diagram_to_FEN Extract the FEN out of images of chess, xiangqi, or shogi diagrams.	44	Emerging	16	Python
9	rbaltrusch/chess_ng Full chess engine including chess AI	44	Emerging	3	Python
10	rosenthj/Winter UCI Chess Engine	42	Emerging	94	C++
11	CSSLab/maia-chess Maia is a human-like neural network chess engine trained on millions of human games.	42	Emerging	1,140	Python
12	maciejczyzewski/neural-chessboard ♔ An Extremely Efficient Chess-board Detection for Non-trivial Photos ♔	42	Emerging	312	Python
13	joeymeyer/raspberryturk The Raspberry Turk is a robot that can play chess—it's entirely open source,...	40	Emerging	187	Jupyter Notebook
14	Manuteaa/dbd_autoSkillCheck A tool (PyTorch) to automatically detect and hit great skill checks in Dead...	37	Emerging	101	Python
15	mcoria/chesstango ChessTango exemplifies the practical application of object-oriented design...	37	Emerging	4	Java
16	clarkerubber/irwin irwin - the protector of lichess from all chess players villainous	36	Emerging	524	Python
17	Bokhtiar-Adil/Vikings-chess-Hnefatafl An AI based board game developed with Pygame.	36	Emerging	5	Python
18	Hsankesara/Draughts-AI AI based checkers game-bot	36	Emerging	52	Python
19	bupticybee/XQPy 象棋巫师（非官方）python实现	36	Emerging	82	JavaScript
20	CSSLab/maia-individual Modeling individual style in chess with Maia Chess.	35	Emerging	45	Python
21	SamRagusa/Checkers-Reinforcement-Learning A checkers reinforcement learning AI, and all the tools needed to train it.	35	Emerging	59	Python
22	davidpomerenke/aima-checkers Checkers game specification for aima.js.	35	Emerging	1	JavaScript
23	GunshipPenguin/shallow-blue UCI Chess engine written in C++11	35	Emerging	76	C++
24	dffge552/xiangqi-pwa-offline 中國象棋 PWA 應用(離線版)	33	Emerging	2	HTML
25	puffinsoft/jchessify Java chess engine framework.	33	Emerging	10	Java
26	samliu21/chess-ai ML-powered chess bot at ~1100 elo	32	Emerging	34	Python
27	bellerb/chess Program for playing chess in the console against AI or human opponents	32	Emerging	19	Python
28	IsaacCheng9/machine-learning-in-chess My final year project for the University of Exeter, using machine learning...	31	Emerging	8	Jupyter Notebook
29	zjeffer/chess-deep-rl Research project: create a chess engine using Deep Reinforcement Learning	31	Emerging	172	Jupyter Notebook
30	justNo4b/Drofa UCI chess engine	30	Emerging	45	C++
31	xqbase/chess Mobile Chess (for Java ME) and Flash Chess (for Web) with Strong AI	29	Experimental	8	Java
32	fazeelkhalid/AutoPlayer-Chess-With-Alpha-Beta-Pruning Game of chess has been a classic AI problem and these days there are several...	28	Experimental	4	C++
33	coding-parrot/chess-engine The chess engine can generate all legal moves for a given position upto an...	28	Experimental	108	Java
34	LordDarkula/KnightSky ♘ Deep learning Chess Engine ♞	28	Experimental	8	Python
35	SamRagusa/Batch-First A JIT compiled chess engine which traverses the search tree in batches in a...	28	Experimental	30	Python
36	Skripkon/chess-engine Chess engine	28	Experimental	40	Jupyter Notebook
37	OmerFarukTutkun/Devre Devre , a UCI compatible chess engine by Omer Faruk Tutkun.	27	Experimental	14	C++
38	asdfjkl/neural_network_chess Free Book about Deep-Learning approaches for Chess (like AlphaZero, Leela...	27	Experimental	334	Python
39	Vadman97/ChessGame Java Chess Game with AI Computer player	26	Experimental	3	Java
40	stratzilla/chess-engine Chess engine using Negamax Alpha-Beta Pruning	26	Experimental	7	C++
41	SCRN-VRC/Chess-Shader-With-Artificial-Intelligence Implemented with a simple min-max tree of two depth	26	Experimental	48	HLSL
42	RyanStonebraker/Snowball A neuroevolutionary Checkers AI player and platform.	25	Experimental	5	C++
43	HalfKP/NNUE Efficiently Updatable Neural Network	25	Experimental	85	C++
44	h1me01/Astra-Trainer Neural Network Trainer for chess engines	25	Experimental	3	C++
45	haxdds/fischer A classic game of chess with a hint of artificial intelligence	24	Experimental	4	Java
46	KGuz/chessie CLI tool to facilitate the analysis of over the board chess games	24	Experimental	1	Rust
47	SzilBalazs/BlackCore Powerful C++ chess engine	24	Experimental	18	C++
48	Zedrichu/Chinese-Checkers-AI Implementation of the Chinese Checkers game and an AI agent for it	24	Experimental	4	Python
49	nedeljkovignjevic/checkers-game Implementation of checkers (draughts) strategy board game with AI based bot	23	Experimental	16	Python
50	srom/chessbot Chessbot is a chess AI trained on a deep learning neural network using tensorflow	23	Experimental	2	Go
51	JakeTheRealOne/chesscom-ml ML research - Reproducing chess.com premium features with a classifier model	23	Experimental	1	—
52	mcarbonell/neural-tablebases Deep learning approach to chess tablebase compression using geometric...	22	Experimental	—	Python
53	EmmanueleVilla/chess_ai_game A chess artificial intelligence game	22	Experimental	1	Python
54	yashwalker7/ALPHA4 AI Chess Engine	22	Experimental	1	JavaScript
55	danieltan1517/chess-jai Chess Engine and UI in Jai Programming Language	22	Experimental	48	Jai
56	Geofany17/Robot-Checkers-Player Robot that can play Checkers.	22	Experimental	1	Python
57	LenniAConrad/chess-rtk Reproducible chess research toolkit for UCI engines: mine tactical puzzles,...	21	Experimental	2	Java
58	KushalJain-00/Chess-AI- A fully-featured chess game built in Python with Pygame. Includes AI...	21	Experimental	2	Python
59	nadeem4/chess_engine_using_python Chess Engine Implementation using Minmax, Alpha-Beta Pruning, and Quiescence...	21	Experimental	11	Python
60	katkaypettitt/chess Fully functional chess programme made with pygame	21	Experimental	8	Python
61	salmiyounes/Sisyphus Sisyphus: a Python Chess Engine/Library based on C backend	21	Experimental	22	C
62	justNo4b/Equisetum Drofa chess engine with NNUE evaluation	21	Experimental	24	C++
63	MatteoLucchi1998/ChessApp Deep Learning and Computer Vision application for chessboard detection and...	20	Experimental	14	Java
64	harshpatel097/Chess-Playing-AI-Bot An autonomous bot which plays Chess with the user using Computer vision...	20	Experimental	10	Jupyter Notebook
65	angeluriot/Chess_AI A machine learning model for chess.	20	Experimental	15	Python
66	brandonviaje/ViaMate UCI Chess engine written in C deployed as Lichess bot	20	Experimental	1	C
67	SereMark/Hybrid-Chess-AI Implementation of a Hybrid Chess AI that merges advanced machine learning...	20	Experimental	1	Python
68	aakashkcx/chess-engine A chess engine built using TypeScript.	19	Experimental	1	TypeScript
69	SzilBalazs/WhiteCore Crafted within weeks, a strong C++ neural network-based chess engine.	19	Experimental	5	C++
70	angelosmar1/stratego-setup-generator Using deep learning to generate human-like piece setups for the board game Stratego.	19	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
71	Gualor/checkers-minimax Checkers AI using minimax algorithm.	19	Experimental	10	Python
72	abdelfatah-chaib/Chess-Game A complete chess game developed in C++ with SFML, featuring AI opponents...	19	Experimental	—	C++
73	Oscar-SR/chess-engine Chess engine with main focus on the artificial intelligence	19	Experimental	—	C#
74	kevingregor/Checkers Analysis of optimal heuristic evaluation function for Checkers AI	18	Experimental	6	Java
75	JHurricane96/chessai A self-learning chess artificial intelligence	18	Experimental	7	Python
76	rreemmii-dev/Checkers-AI A checkers (or draughts) game with several AI algorithms available, such as...	17	Experimental	2	Rust
77	FaisalAhmedBijoy/AI-Blocking-Game AI Blocking Game \| Human vs AI \| Human vs Human \| Minimax Algorithm	17	Experimental	5	Python
78	superchessengine/sce next-gen AI enabled chess engine.	17	Experimental	4	C++
79	gobbez/ChessBot_Zoe Lichess Bot for the purpose of studying both chess and Deep Learning..	17	Experimental	5	Python
80	loki1001/ChessNeuralNetwork Chess Game with AI employing MiniMax with Alpha-Beta pruning utilizing moves...	16	Experimental	3	Python
81	Aditya-y9/COC_Project_X_ChessAI Repository for ChessAI , part of COC's ProjectX.	16	Experimental	3	JavaScript
82	iandtsoft-27452103/Achernar_L Achernal_L is a go engine using Lazy Convolutional Neural Network.	15	Experimental	—	C#
83	Qazalbash/Checkers-with-AI 🐙 Human/Bot vs Bot Checkers game	15	Experimental	6	Python
84	iandtsoft-27452103/Achernar Achernar is a go engine using Convolutional Neural Network.	15	Experimental	—	C#
85	iandtsoft-27452103/Ariadne Ariadne is a shogi engine using GRU Neural Network.	15	Experimental	—	C#
86	victorsimrbt/chess_rl A repository of applied reinforcement learning to make a competent chess engine.	15	Experimental	22	Jupyter Notebook
87	sg-first/DL-Military-chess-AI Military chess AI using neural network for situation evaluation	15	Experimental	27	Python
88	aimaster-dev/NautilusChess NautilusChess is a lightweight Python chess bot with a GUI, screen-based...	15	Experimental	11	Python
89	JuanManuelHuerta/AlgorithmicChessEngine Self Playing Chess machine: Artificial Intelligence Chess Playing Machine -...	15	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
90	LenniAConrad/chess-models Pinned chess neural network weights and minimal model documentation.	15	Experimental	1	—
91	choiIsabelle/GoodKnight GoodKnight is a chess bot built at ChessHacks 2025 (University of Waterloo)...	15	Experimental	—	JavaScript
92	LuisCW/Ajedrez_IA ♟️ Ajedrez 3D con Inteligencia Artificial usando TensorFlow y JMonkeyEngine....	15	Experimental	—	Java
93	iandtsoft-27452103/Asklepios Asklepios is a shogi engine using Convolutional Neural Network.	15	Experimental	—	Python
94	abdullahkhfb/caissa Caissa: my personal chess engine project for AI module	15	Experimental	—	Python
95	Aniruddhraam/Chess.com-Replica_using-JavaFX Fully Functional Chess.com replica using JavaFX with dynamic front-end using...	15	Experimental	—	Java
96	maledadams/YOLO-model-for-computer-vision-task YOLO-based chess piece detection app with image search, square/piece...	15	Experimental	1	Python
97	luuisotorres/chess_ai_agents A chess face-off between AI Agents using AutoGen. Visualize every move and...	14	Experimental	3	Python
98	QueensGambit/CrazyAra-Engine CrazyAra - A Deep Learning UCI-Chess Variant Engine written in C++ :bird:	14	Experimental	12	C++
99	shazzad5709/Mini-Chess This is a mini chess game developed using the Next.js framework, where you...	14	Experimental	1	TypeScript
100	luc527/pin3-checkers Play checkers against an AI! - Projeto integrador 3, UDESC 6ª fase 2022/2	14	Experimental	1	JavaScript
101	yfgrepcat/Chessomatic An intelligent chess AI selector leveraging the Multi-Armed Bandits...	14	Experimental	—	—
102	ViktorC/DETROID A magic bitboard and parallelized PVS powered chess engine within a chess...	13	Experimental	5	Java
103	angeluriot/Chess_games A dataset of high level chess games for training machine learning models.	13	Experimental	8	—
104	arjunvijayanup/chess-dnn-alpha-beta Hybrid chess engine combining negamax α–β search with a batched DNN...	13	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
105	crispinprojects/neural-network-checkers Demonstation of using a simple Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network...	13	Experimental	2	C
106	FizzWizZleDazzle/Chessus A high-performance chess engine written in C with neural network evaluation...	13	Experimental	2	C
107	AlxSp/gauss-searchless-chess Pytorch implementation of "Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search" and...	13	Experimental	6	Python
108	David-davidlxl/Lobsterpincer-Spectator-For-Win-RPi-Combo Real-time chessboard processor (Windows and Raspberry Pi's combination version)	13	Experimental	7	C++
109	cmsrs/checkers Checkers with computer, checkers online, javascript html game	13	Experimental	5	JavaScript
110	Ceimtun-RAS/chessbot-page Página web de presentación de proyecto y referencia de avance de proceso del...	13	Experimental	5	SCSS
111	davidpomerenke/checkers Checkers browsergame, made with aima.js and React.	12	Experimental	4	JavaScript
112	Swaymaw/chess_analysis_tool MCP Server based chess analysis tool for conversational style chess coach	12	Experimental	1	Vue
113	bmccutchon/Checkers A simple checkers program with parallelized artificial intelligence.	12	Experimental	3	Java
114	gaetanserre/GAiA GAiA is a UCI chess engine built with C++ 17, ONNX and Pytorch. It performs...	12	Experimental	3	C++
115	jcmartinezdev/kickass-chess A weekend project to make a computer beat me in a chess game - AI is not...	12	Experimental	4	JavaScript
116	UE2020/prophet-nnue Dense 768-bit (no HalfKP) double-layer NNUE implementation in pure Rust,...	12	Experimental	4	C++
117	DuyNguyenPhuong/AI_Chess_Player_By_Minimax_Algorithm Applying AI algorithm Minimax to train machine to beat chess game	12	Experimental	3	Python
118	plettj/lichess.ai Machine learning analysis of the popular and open-source Lichess database	12	Experimental	1	Python
119	TheCodingAcademy/Minimax-algorithm Implementation of the Minimax algorithm with alpha-beta pruning	12	Experimental	3	Python
120	SameetAsadullah/Chess-Game-Agent-Using-Minimax Developed a chess game agent using Minimax Algorithm in Python Language	12	Experimental	3	Python
121	JohnDev19/Dama-with-AI Dama with AI is a modern take on the classic board game Dama, integrated...	12	Experimental	3	JavaScript
122	Xtemp00/ChessGame_Python Chess Game in Python with library pygame and AI who can learn how to play...	11	Experimental	2	C++
123	N-y-c-t-o/Chessmate-Arena A web-based chess platform developed as an AI semester project that allows...	11	Experimental	—	C++
124	David-davidlxl/Lobsterpincer-Spectator-For-Win Real-time chessboard processor (Windows version)	11	Experimental	2	C++
125	PraxTube/chess-ai A chess AI that uses alpha-beta to find the best move	11	Experimental	—	Python
126	fractalate/ai-chinese-checkers Neural Network for Playing Chinese Checkers	11	Experimental	—	Python
127	zubairahm3d/AI-Checkers-Game Final Project – Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2024), FAST NUCES. Built a...	11	Experimental	—	Python
128	Adithya1209/parallel-alphabeta-checkers A high-performance Checkers engine utilizing Python multiprocessing and...	11	Experimental	—	Python
129	HuajiStudio/ChessMaster A fast and tiny but smart chess player.	11	Experimental	2	Java
130	github-jimjim/NNUE-Parser A NNUE Parser for my NNUE	11	Experimental	—	Rust
131	noobpratik10/ChesTron--my-chess-bot ChesTron is a user-friendly web application that lets you play chess against...	11	Experimental	—	JavaScript
132	MatTheTab/PikeBot AI-based chess model to simulate human-like behavior, aggressive and...	11	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
133	aakashkcx/chess-game A chess game built using @aakashkcx/chess-engine.	10	Experimental	1	TypeScript
134	zhukovdm/Congo 🦁 Multiplatform engine for playing a chess-like strategy game	10	Experimental	1	C#
135	Ayushverma135/SmartChessAI Smart AI solutions for chess piece recognition. uses powerful deep learning...	10	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
136	davidmartinezros/chessRobot Thinking thinking I've found a solution for create the Chess Robot...	10	Experimental	1	Java
137	MedouneSGB/Senchess-AI 🔍♟️ Senchess AI - Production-ready chess piece detection powered by YOLOv8	10	Experimental	4	Python
138	NeilNie/ChessTracker ChessTracker - detect chessboard and track pieces with a automatic game-clock.	10	Experimental	1	PureBasic
139	Jon-Becker/pleonexia A simple chess AI coded using minimax, material counting, and positional values.	10	Experimental	1	JavaScript
140	asmaurya95/ChessAI A GUI based CHESS application written in Java	10	Experimental	1	Java
141	jessanrendell/chess50 A chess AI built using minimax, alpha-beta-pruning, and Zobrist hashing algorithms	10	Experimental	1	Python
142	EStog/Checkers-Game This is a checkers game, that use minimax seach with alpha-beta prunning.	10	Experimental	1	Python
143	AAriam/Chessy A chess engine in Python, using different AI methods.	10	Experimental	1	Python
144	nathanbonada/Scrabble-with-AI This is a complete Scrabble game with AI and GUI	10	Experimental	1	Python

Comparisons in this category

maia-chess and maia-individual (42 vs 35)