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About The Project

chess-rs is a Chess Engine written from scratch in Rust that runs natively and on web!

Live Demo: https://parthpant.github.io/chess-rs/

Features

• [x] Move Generation using BitBoards (<8s perft results at depth 6 for starting position)
• [x] Supports all moves including en-passant, pawn promotion and castling
• [x] GUI gameplay
• [x] Perft Runner
• [x] Egui Integration
• [x] Board Evaluation (Matrial and Positional)
• [x] AI (NegaMax with Quiescence Search)
• [x] Move Ordering (MVV-LVA, Killer & History Heuristics)
• [x] Zobrist Hashing
• [x] Transposition Tables
• [x] Incremental Search Deepening
• [ ] Opening Book

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Rust

You will require the rust toolchain to be installed on your system.

Follow: Rust Website

Note: If you only want to run natively you are good to go. To build for WASM you will also need to install the following.

Web Target

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

Trunk

cargo install --locked trunk

Build from source

Simply clone the Git repository and build using the cargo build system

git clone https://github.com/ParthPant/chess-rs.git
cd chess-rs
cargo build

Usage

# You can either start the Chess Engine with
cargo run

# Or you can run in the web browser with
trunk serve

# Or you can run perft analysis
cargo run -p chrs-perft -- 5 "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

Contact

Parth Pant - @PantParth - parthpant4@gmail.com

Project Link: https://github.com/ParthPant/chess-rs.git