diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ddc0a5b..9d1b952 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-*.db
+secret.nim
+nim.cfg
 
 bin
 htmldocs
-pgn
-secret.nim
+ressources
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 145d1b6..f5bcdd5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,17 +4,44 @@
 
 ychess is a chess implementation and engine written in nim.
 
-## Quick Setup
+## Usage and contribution
+
+For the following subsections to work properly you need to have `nim.cfg` files
+so you don't need to pass all compiler arguments manually.
+To automatically create the config files run `nim c -r createCfg.nim` from the
+root directory of the project.
+
+### Todos
+
+[TODO.md](./TODO.md) contains a list of features that are planned.
+
+### Command line
 
 To play chess in the commandline simply download the code (or clone the
 repository) and run `nim c -r game.nim`.
 You can either play the 1v1 hotseat mode or a single player mode vs the engine.
 
-Additionally ychess uses the lichess api to make playing more convenient.
+### Lichess
+
+ychess uses the lichess api to make playing more convenient.
 An instance of the engine occasionally plays on
 [lichess](https://lichess.org/@/tiyn-ychess).
 To get into the whitelist just write a ingame message to the account.
 
+If you want to create an instance on lichess yourself you need to set a api
+token.
+This is done in `src/engine/secret.nim`.
+It should have the following structure:
+
+```nim
+let api_token* = "<lichess api token for bot>"
+```
+
+Following that you will want to set your username into the whitelist in
+`src/engine/lichessBridge.nim`.
+After that you can start the lichess bot by running
+`nim c -r src/engine/lichessBridge.nim`.
+
 ## Project Structure
 
 - `art` - contains pictures and arts not used in the code.
@@ -22,6 +49,8 @@ To get into the whitelist just write a ingame message to the account.
 be created if you compile a program.
 - `htmldocs` - is not pushed to the git repository but contains all
 automatically generated documentation.
+- `ressources` - is not pushed to the git repository but contains all
+the data used in source code but not being source code itself (e.g. databases).
 - `src` - is the root folder for all programs except tests.
 - `tests` - contains all tests.
 
@@ -32,11 +61,12 @@ For this reason it is not saved in this repository.
 To extract it into html (assuming you want the documentation for `game.nim`)
 run `nim doc --project --index:on --outdir:htmldocs game.nim`.
 
-## General Design Choices
+## Additional Documentation
 
 ### Moves
 
-Moves are read from the commandline as [pure coordinate notation](https://www.chessprogramming.org/Algebraic_Chess_Notation#Pure_coordinate_notation).
+Moves are read from the commandline as
+[pure coordinate notation](https://www.chessprogramming.org/Algebraic_Chess_Notation#Pure_coordinate_notation).
 The inner program will convert this notation to a move-tuple.
 
 ### Board Representation
@@ -53,31 +83,40 @@ For the evaluation function each piece has a corresponding value.
 Additionally [piece-square tables](https://www.chessprogramming.org/Piece-Square_Tables)
 are used.
 
-## Contributing
+### Code Style Guide
 
-### Setup
+Make sure to take a look at the
+[official nim style guide](https://nim-lang.org/docs/nep1.html).
+All conventions should be applied to this code.
 
-To setup the project for development you need to create the file
-`src/secret.nim`.
-It should contain values for the following variables:
+Additionally there are a bunch of steps to make the code more consistent.
 
-```nim
-let projectdir* = "<absolute path to root dir of ychess>"
-let api_token* = "<lichess api token for bot>"
-```
+#### Constants
 
-### Code Style Guide
+Constants should start with an uppercase letter but shouldn't be written in all
+caps (`const FooBar = 2`).
+
+#### Whitespaces
 
 Basic arithmetic operations should be surrounded by spaces for example: `1 + 3`.
 This however is not true for negation of a single value (`-1`) or if the
 arithmetic operation is done inside array brackets or in iterators (`a+1..3`,
 `a[c+3]`).
 
+#### Function calls
+
 Determining the length of a string, array, etc should not be done via a function
 (`len(array)`) but by appending it like `array.len`.
+In the same style function calls should be done (`chess.convertToFen()` instead
+of `convertToFen(chess)`).
+This however is not true if the function takes a first argument that is not an
+abstract datatype like the joinPath function (all the parameters are strings).
+
+#### booleans and logic
 
 If statements should not contain outer brackets.
 In some cases (especially concatenations of `and` and `or`) inner brackets are
 useful to increase readability in complexer logic formulas.
 
-When assigning booleans with logical formulas outer brackets are expected.
+When assigning booleans with logical formulas outer brackets are expected
+(`var boolVar = (1 == 1)`).
diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index a54584b..afb2cbf 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ This is a list of features that are to be implemented.
 
 - Opening Book
 - Endgame Table
-- Installation script for easy setup of the repo
 - Docker integration
diff --git a/createCfg.nim b/createCfg.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d486c5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/createCfg.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import os
+
+import src/project
+
+let projDir = getProjRootDir()
+var tmpPath: string
+
+for dir in ["src", "tests"]:
+  tmpPath = joinPath(projDir, dir)
+  var f = open(joinPath(tmpPath, "nim.cfg"), fmWrite)
+  f.writeLine("--outdir:\"" & joinPath(projDir, "bin", dir) & "\"")
+  f.writeLine("--path:\"" & joinPath(projDir, "src") & "\"")
+  f.close()
diff --git a/src/engine/lichessBridge.nim b/src/engine/lichessBridge.nim
index 689ad05..acec904 100644
--- a/src/engine/lichessBridge.nim
+++ b/src/engine/lichessBridge.nim
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import nimpy
 import asyncnet, asyncdispatch
 
 import chess
-import secret
+import engine/secret
 import engine/engine
 
 let berserk = pyImport("berserk")
diff --git a/src/engine/nim.cfg b/src/engine/nim.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index f944151..0000000
--- a/src/engine/nim.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
---outdir:"../../bin/src"
diff --git a/src/engine/openingBook.nim b/src/engine/openingBook.nim
index 5a39d91..5625e31 100644
--- a/src/engine/openingBook.nim
+++ b/src/engine/openingBook.nim
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ import sequtils
 import strutils
 import sugar
 import tables
+import os
 
 include chess
 
 import secret
+import project
 
 type
   BookMove* = object
@@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ type
     rating*: int # `rating` is the average rating of the player to move.
 
 
-let dbConn = projectdir & "src/engine/openings.db"
+let dbConn = joinPath(getProjRootDir(), "ressources/openings.db")
 let dbUser = ""
 let dbPasswd = ""
 let dbName = ""
diff --git a/src/nim.cfg b/src/nim.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f03f93..0000000
--- a/src/nim.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
---outdir:"../bin/src"
---path:"."
diff --git a/src/project.nim b/src/project.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f7a8dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/project.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import os
+
+proc getProjRootDir*(): string =
+  ## Returns the root directory for the ychess project.
+  var maxDepth = 4
+  var path = os.getCurrentDir()
+  var projectDir: string
+  while maxDepth > 0:
+    if dirExists(joinPath(path, "src")):
+      projectDir = path
+      break
+    else:
+      path = parentDir(path)
+    maxDepth -= 1
+  return projectDir
diff --git a/tests/nim.cfg b/tests/nim.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index f7f73d6..0000000
--- a/tests/nim.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
---path:"../src/"
---outdir:"../bin/tests/"