diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c99ad1d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+language: cpp
+compiler: g++
+sudo: required
+
+before_install:
+  - sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
+  - sudo apt-get update -qq
+
+install:
+  - sudo apt-get install -qq g++-4.8
+  - sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8 90
+
+branches:
+  only:
+   - master
+
+before_script:
+  - cd src
+
+script:
+  - make clean && make build ARCH=x86-64 COMP=gcc && ./stockfish bench 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep 'Nodes searched'
+  - make clean && make build ARCH=x86-32 COMP=gcc && ./stockfish bench 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep 'Nodes searched'
diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 319bca8c..e997bed6 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-### Overview
+### Overview      [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/official-stockfish/Stockfish.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/official-stockfish/Stockfish)
 
 Stockfish is a free UCI chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is
 not a complete chess program and requires some UCI-compatible GUI
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ for correspondence games (because of tablebase adjudication).
 
 The "SyzygyProbeLimit" option should normally be left at its default value.
 
-**What to expect**  
+**What to expect**
 If the engine is searching a position that is not in the tablebases (e.g.
 a position with 7 pieces), it will access the tablebases during the search.
 If the engine reports a very large score (typically 123.xx), this means