A relatively powerful chess engine built in rust.

• Iterative Deepening
• Aspiration Windows
• Transposition Tables
  • Depth-preferred Replacement Strategy
• Move Ordering
  • Internal Iterative Deepening
  • History Heuristic
  • Killer Heuristic
  • MVV/LVA
• Selectivity
  • Extensions
    • Check Extensions
  • Pruning
    • Alpha-beta Pruning (fail-high / beta cutoff)
  • Reductions
    • Late Move Reductions
  • Quiescence Search

• Tapered Evaluation
• Material
  • Point Values
  • Bishop Pair
  • Imbalance Tables
• Piece-Square Tables
• Space
• Mobility
  • Trapped Pieces
  • Rooks on (Semi) Open Files
• Outposts
• Pawn Structure
  • Supported Pawn
  • Backward Pawn
  • Doubled Pawn
  • Isolated Pawn
  • Blocked Pawn
  • Phalanx
  • Connected Pawns
  • Passed Pawn
  • King Proximity
• Threats
  • Queen Infiltration
  • Restricted Squares
  • Slider/Knight on Queen
  • Weak Pieces
  • Hanging Pieces
• King Safety
  • Attacking King Ring
  • Pawn Shelter
  • Pawn Storm
  • Checks
  • Square Control

Download the executable from the 'releases' section and run it with:

# Show the help menu
./chessatron help

• Install rust as instructed here.
• Run the following commands from the terminal in a directory of your choosing:

# Clone the source code into `./chessatron/`
git clone https://github.com/Rice-Rocket/chess-engine.git ./chessatron
# Enter the folder with source code
cd chessatron
# Compile the code in release mode
cargo build --release
# Run the binary and show the help menu
cargo run --release -- help