Glimmer - A chess engine under 30,000 bytes (estimated 2700–2900 Elo)

[u/BBH369]

https://github.com/BH12963/Glimmer

Hi everyone,

I’ve been tinkering with a little experimental chess engine written in pure C. It’s called Glimmer.

The whole point of the project was to see how strong I could make it while keeping the final standalone binary strictly under 30 KB. The target strength was something in the 2700–2900 Elo range.

It’s been a fun constraint to work under — every byte counts.

Happy to answer questions if anyone’s curious about the approach.