Leaderboard
Coming soonA competition for the fastest move generator in the world. Engines submit a UCI-compatible binary, get validated against the standard perft corpus, and are ranked by throughput.
Submit your engine
Any move generator that speaks the standard UCI go perft N protocol is eligible. Open the door on Discord to register and coordinate the upload.
Compliance check
Every entry runs through perftcheck against ~28,000 known-correct positions. Engines must pass the full corpus at depth 4 before they're considered for ranking.
Benchmark and rank
Validated engines are timed on a fixed hardware profile running a fixed perft workload. Throughput is reported in nodes/second; the leaderboard refreshes whenever a new entry lands.
Interested in entering?
The leaderboard goes live once we've got a critical mass of engines. If you've got a move generator you'd like to put in the ring — in any language, any architecture, any style — drop into the project Discord and let us know.
The reference engine in MoveGen/ gives one starting point — but the leaderboard isn't tied to any one architecture. Magic bitboards, PEXT, classical ray-scan, 0×88 — all welcome.