https://github.com/jszczerbinsky/zeppelin

UCI chess engine for Windows and Linux
https://github.com/jszczerbinsky/zeppelin

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UCI chess engine for Windows and Linux

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jszczerbinsky/zeppelin
• Owner: jszczerbinsky
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2024-11-06T19:11:39.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2026-01-19T22:01:39.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-01-20T04:09:52.447Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: chess, chess-ai, chess-engine, uci, uci-chess-engine, uci-engine
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 32.1 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Zeppelin

  

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[![GitHub Release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/jszczerbinsky/zeppelin?label=GitHub&style=for-the-badge&color=24292f)](https://github.com/jszczerbinsky/zeppelin/releases)

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[![AUR Version](https://img.shields.io/aur/version/zeppelin-git?style=for-the-badge&color=1793d1)](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zeppelin-git)





Zeppelin is a free, open-source chess engine, compatible with UCI protocol, optimized for x86_64 and aarch64 CPUs, working under Windows and Linux. Use it to play with, analyze your games, or challenge it against other engines.



## Installation

You can download pre-compiled version from [releases](https://github.com/jszczerbinsky/zeppelin/releases/). To use the engine, unpack the file somewhere in the filesystem and specify the path to zeppelin executable in Your GUI program. Since v0.1.0 version, the program contains only an executable, without any additional binary files, thus specifying a working directory is no longer necessary.

#### Building from source

If You want to build the program from source, You'll need **cmake** and **gcc** (or **mingw** on Windows). Using **ccmake** or **cmake-gui** is the easiest way to specify all the parameters, that cmake needs to build the engine. Cross compiling is possible, but only one way - from Linux to Windows.

```bash

git clone https://github.com/jszczerbinsky/zeppelin/

cd zeppelin

# You may use cmake-gui . instead of ccmake

ccmake .

cmake --build .

```

The executable should appear in `build/` directory.

If You want to rebuild the program with overriden files in `res/` directory, You should delete all `.o` files in project root. Otherwise the previous ones will be linked.