UCI chess engine written in Rust!

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CCRL Standard
CCRL Blitz
BRUCE Bullet

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Features

• Negamax Search with Alpha-Beta Pruning
• Principal Variance Search
• Quiescence Search
• Iterative Deepening
• Internal Iterative Deepening
• Kindergarten Bitboards
• Zobrist Hashing
• Transposition Table
• Static Exchange Evalution (SEE)
• Null-Move Pruning
• Delta Pruning
• Futility Pruning
• Time Pruning (wiki)
• Multi-Cut Pruning
• Razoring
• Check Extensions
• Singular Extensions
• Mate-Threat Extensions
• Late-Move Reductions
• Killer Heuristic
• Relative History Heuristic
• Counter-Move Heuristic

How to build

Install Rust

Run cargo build --release

How to use

This program complies with the UCI protocol, you can use it with any of the UCI-compatible GUIs (with a few limitations as mentioned in the Limitations section).

Limitations

• Search x nodes is NOT supported
• Search mate in x moves is NOT supported
• Search specific moves under a given position is NOT supported
• ponder is currently NOT supported
• Big-endian systems are NOT supported

Credits

The logo shown on this page is created by @PabloDenial0. Many thanks.

References

Chess Programming by François Dominic Laramée
Mediocre Chess Guides
Chess Programming Wiki
Xorshiro128**
Stockfish Evaluation Guide