/crust

Chess Engine in Rust

Primary LanguageRustMIT LicenseMIT

Crust

Overview

Crust is a simple Chess engine written in Rust.

Features

  • Bitboard Based Board Representation
  • Magic Bitboards for Sliding Piece Move Generation
  • Alpha-Beta Search
  • Iterative Deepening
  • Quiescence Search
  • Transposition Table
  • Aspiration Windows
  • Killer Move Heuristic
  • Material and Piece-Square Based Evaluation

Planned

  • Static Exchange Evaluation
  • Mobility and Pawn Structure Evaluation Terms
  • Negascout/PVS
  • Null Move Pruning

Build

Simply run cargo build --release && ./target/release/crust. To run a simple benchmark, run cargo bench (this may take a little while).